This blog was by far the most difficult for me to write because of exactly what the privilege quiz told me, I am the most privileged but this didn't come as a surprise to me. I am a straight white male, above 6' tall, and I am currently studying out of state at one of the largest universities in the country. Not one of those is a target identity.
I will combine my two most obvious identities, I am a white male. Being a white male, as we went into great detail during class, has far more positives than not. But what this brings to me is an embarrassment of how other people that identify the same as myself treat other groups. Whether it is towards other races or people who are apart of the LGBT community. There is also a lot of unknown for me, with how the lives of people who have it far more difficulty than me day-to-day, I wish that I could understand but I just simply have no idea, which is a shame. The best thing that I can do is show understanding and compassion for those of who struggle on a day-to-day basis with who they are.
My only target identity I can think of is that I am Agnostic. Not that I have any ill-will towards anyone who follows a religion, I just don't really care for it. Being Agnostic has brought multiple jokes with how I'm going to hell and other things to that effect. Not that it's the worst thing it's just a little annoying. My father passed away almost two years ago and that was a test for someone who identifies as me. Many people's first reaction with death is to go to God or their religion for guidance but I didn't have that to fall back on.
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