In this week’s readings, we can see what being privileged really is. In the article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh, she talks about how many times we don’t see what being privileged really is, McIntosh focuses on the fact that women’s studies is based on power make women have their rights, but many criticize this fact of being able to seek the rights with which they are being over-privileged when, in itself, they are only looking for a method of equality. She talks about how in her time, the privileged were only white men who, according to her, were the only ones with the power to have rights in their entirety. Many times being privileged is also giving some oppression to certain types of people, which leads us to the same issue of hierarchies, where being privileged is based on the same hierarchies. In my own experiences, I feel that there have been certain things in which I feel privileged, but at the same time it makes me feel sad that not many people are in the same situation as me. I may be able to have food from day to day, every day, but there are people who don’t. Perhaps this type of privilege is not the same as the one discussed in the article, but it is something that gives a better vision of what being privileged can be.

Then we have the reading “Oppression” by Marilyn Frye, who only explains how despite being strong, this has a great meaning to be able to explain how because they are not a color, race or even not liking something in specific they believe with the right to be able to put pressure on anyone. Like what Frye comments, about the fact that from childhood they impose on us the rule that men do not cry and if they cry they already classify them as less masculine, but that is the oppression that exists within society and among those who do not have the same rhythm this. I remember, I’ve had this kind of oppression because I’m of dual race. Since there were times when my Chinese race called me “foreigner” for the simple fact of also being Venezuelan, I remember that this oppression was also present in the Venezuelan race, who called me “Chinese” for the very fact of being it too. The oppression that exists in society, the desire to be able to classify anyone for the simple fact of how the person is or how they behave, is something that has been seen in all these years and is also something that is very difficult to put an end to.

Finally, we have the video for “What is Privilege”, and it’s about everything that we’ve been talking about before, how many of those contestants at the beginning were joking about the type of questions, they laughed at the fact of how they were. But in the end, when they realized what it really was to be privileged and looked around them, they captured the true essence of what it is to be able to have your rights without being discriminated against. Many of them also experienced the same feeling of guilt, seeing how they took a step forward when compared to the situation of the question, and that behind there are many more completely different people, when they thought they were.