Blog #9 posted 10/27/17
Racism- In the
Salt Lake Tribune, there is an article about the University of Utah. They are working
on having an anti-racism task force on campus. With incidents occurring in the
past couple months it’s a topic that is being looked at.
Ageism- On a talk
show, hosted by Megyn Kelly, she asked actress Jane Fonda about plastic surgery
she had done. Much to her dislike, Ms. Fonda was upset at being asked. On the same
show sitting next to her was Robert Redford. They are both older actors where
the host felt she could assume Ms. Fonda had work done and not ask Mr. Redford.
Older men are considered handsome and distinguished, whereas older women are
just thought of as having work done.
Heterosexist-In
the school paper, The Sign Post they had an article called Love has no label. In it the student talks about how her and her
“person” have found a happiness together. Heterosexism is displayed in this
article because she is not putting a label on her relationship, whereas someone
else might.
Sexism- In an
article by Nikki Rae, a radio host talks about the #METOO. There’s a movement about
people who have been sexually abused, assaulted, raped or verbally abused. She
talks about how on different occasions she has dealt with abuse. She then metions how what clothes you wear, what you say, how you act it does not give
anyone the right to force themselves on someone, or verbally or physically
abuse and attack someone.
The #MeToo campaign was so moving to read. I thought about contributing to it but the time it would take to put in the emotional labor to revisit the trauma seemed too much in light of the wall of assignments I had coming up. Good example!
ReplyDeleteThe #METOO campaign was incredible. It brought so much light to a sensitive subject but gave such strength to women to bring their trauma to light.
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