Hello everybody!
I'm Mari, I hope you're having a good week, mine has been pretty heavy. In fact,
I was about to abort the mission and don't do a video this week but it was like: 'yes, yes, yes, I have to do it, because
if I stop now, then I'll stop again'. Well, it doesn't matter.
The thing is that as feminism is really contingent right now (finally), I'd like to
talk about super important that is not so well-known in south America (not that I
know of at least), and that is privileges.
Clearly this is going to be just an introduction because it's such a long subject that
has too many brunches and edges, but let's start from somewhere.
Privileges are unearned benefits
given to certain people that are inside a specific
social group, as being a man, for example, being heterosexual, being cisgender, being white,
we'll get into it.
So, by definition, you can't get rid of your privileges, they just
are there from the context you were born in, how you developed, but it's innate, it's not
that you're doing something to acquire that privilege.
And nobody's doing something wrong to not having the privilege, is something
that just is.
Privilege people usually have positions of more power than the oppressed, for example,
they are able to be more involved in politics, they have more space in the media, more jobs,
etc.
So, to give an example, if you're a man, you have more privileges socially, because
if you postulate for a job, having the same capacities, experience, etcetera,
abilities, than a woman who's postulating for the same thing, probably you'll get it.
Because probably you'll get more paid for the same job.
Because if you talk about science or mathematics, or something like that,
you'll be more listened.
Because of all that, if you're a man, you have that privilege.
There is people who say: 'I'm a man and I don't have privileges because of that,' or 'I am
middle class but I'm not privileged because of that'.
So we have to understand privilege in a context of a power system, because
we use to think in privilege as something individual but not systematically.
Privilege is the opposite form oppression, but they are not exclusive.
Probably most of us have privileges in somethings and we're oppressed
in others.
For example, something quite coarse, there's a person who's white and poor, being poor isn't
a privilege but being white is, which doesn't make the other thing invisible, but that person has a privilege
which is being white, and there's another poor man that's black, and he has no privileges in that way.
The black person has more possibilities, for example, of being abused by some cop,
or whatever.
So there's also another term that connects with all of this which is
'intersectionality', the interaction between different aspects of our lives is called
'intersection'.
Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 'intersectionality' to describe the situation
of black women, who experience racism, and on the other hand, sexism, but all gets together.
That's similar to the example we mentioned before, all women experience sexism,
but a black women experiences racism too, and who knows what more.
Of course the intention of this video and of knowing the privileges you've got doesn't
have the purpose of making us feel guilty, at all, because that would even stuck
the movement more than helping us to cooperate.
Feeling guilty would lead us to feel ashamed and in the end we would talk less about this.
So, what can we do with this info?
First of all, I think is very important to be conscious, for example, I'm a bisexual women
but I have a lot of privileges which don't make my oppression invisible, but I have to recognize that too.
For example I'm south American, but I have lighter colors, which lamentably
makes people look at you better than to someone who's more tanned, sometimes.
Also I'm middle-class, and I've always had a roof, I've never been
without food, and I'm so thankful for that, I'm also cisgender, I don't have many
health problems, but I have mental health issues, all of those things are different types
of privilege.
So I think is very important to recognize the privileges each of us has and
also don't own labels or problems that other people have. That
wasn't very clear.
To give an example, the majority of lesbian pop songs there are are
super sexual and they are about touch and go's, they are never romantic or something
more, in the end is something purely commercial and because it's 'cool'.
But they own those labels when they know they shouldn't and in the end
they are not suffering any of the problems that gay people actually face.
In the end, all they do is blurrying real struggles that a certain group
has, as some men, they see a women saying they're afraid
of being raped, and all of that, and they go: 'Oh, we are raped too, we are looked at in the
streets too', and they end up appropriating that problems when
they are different, and theirs doesn't invalidate ours.
So, of course, nobody should rape anyone, ever, that's terrible.
But the thing is, that in our special moments to express our troubles they
start saying theirs and annulling us someway.
I'm sorry, I'm diverting too much.
Another example for when this happens is when, for example, you're in the beach
and a women who's the stereotype of the perfect body personified, ultra fit, says she's fat,
when she clearly isn't and she knows it.
So there, in the end, she's labeling herself in that group
of people when she (or he, I say 'she' because
of the example I gave), doesn't have to face any of the issue that overweight
people face.
So that's it, recognize our privileges so we don't invalidate
the rest but support them too.
Another thing that's important is listening to these people who are oppressed in different ways
than us, oppressed in general really, there are a lot of cases where a person,
for example, with a mental disease, starts telling their story and somebody
goes: 'Is all in your head', or 'that's not the way things are', in such a condescend way.
Don't do that, we have to learn from the rest.
Also, with the feminist movement, which I love, I've seen a lot of posts
mocking of the problems that women say they have, and that, obviously,
is the opposite of supporting.
We'd listen to these people, let's embrace their experiences, and like that,
become more conscious of what's happening.
And also, as I say, this is an introduction to a enormous world, so it's always good
to be informing ourselves constantly and at the same time, teaching.
Sometimes we don't realize all the privileges we've got until someone tells us this, I knew
I was privileged for having a house, etcetera, but there were some
others I hadn't realized.
So you can tell other people about what is privilege, what are possibly
their privileges, what they can do with them, and we'll start seeing
how we oppress some groups, and we'll take action to have a more equal society,
but the first thing is clearly to realize all of this, and the more informed you are,
you start realizing more details.
And that's it, I don't know if you've heard about this before, it's something that since
I read about it I've really liked it, and I hope we can look more into this and the privileges we've got
that we haven't realized, and what words, for example, or what actions
that we do everyday, are harmful.
That's it, have a nice week and be good.
Bye!
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