Race vs. Sex: the ultimate bout

*note to class* this chapter writes ont he relationship between sex and race in society and politics. it uses magnificant examples of Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. I could sit here and discuss the political side of things but I am not. Politics bores me so instead Im writign onthe subject from my own perspective and touching upon briefly ideas mentioned in the chapter.

This chapter opens up witht he ultimate of chick flicks:Thelma And Louise.This is a film, that despite over a decade of people talking about it, I have never had the chance to view. Well rather I have but chose not to. Instead of viewing Geena and Susan's Excellent Adventure i viewed race related films suchas Boyz in the Hood, Blazing Saddles and variou films ont he holocaust and world war 2. the relationship between races, for me, has always been more intersting than the war between the sexes. I was raised to be gender blind, women and men are the same in 90% of the ways (the other ten percent were mainly biological/ fashion). Race, however, was different. My parents didnt say this is the way you treat these people versus this is the way you treat those people.

In first grade my best friend, Greg, was black. I knew what black was, but overall i didnt care. Greg was into what was most important: Batman. Basically I grew up around people of diferent races and my school did a decent job with teaching children about different races and people of the world. After Greg my next best friend, Draye (also black). In middle school Draye got held back and we didnt talk much after that. After Draye came Dave, who is jewish.

So this is not to say i didnt know that there were racial tensions. I knew their were. Almost as soonas i got my Job at the Acme i heard the most common phrase uttered: "its cause im black ain't it?!" this is both workers and customers saying this. As a person I get offended by this.
I'm a cashier. say Im giving change abck to a black woman and its short a dollar and she goes off on me aying i horted her a dollar casue Im white and she's black. I do not shortchange someone due o them being blakc or asian or anything. if i give short change its casue i suck at math. There are alot of people who have been raised to hate white men becasue of what they did 200 years ago and continually bring it up today. What the hell, why hould i have to be accused of enslaving someone when i was a)not born yet and b) my family didnt get over here till the 1800s when they Irish had their Potato famine. but tis becasue Im white it is my fault it happened. so becasue i shorted a woman a dollar im suddenly trying to enslave her. (BTW: what i jsut menioned happened to me saturday).

now we come to the subject of sexism. personally i feel Lakoff hates men, is an Uberfeminen bitch, and to perfectly honest doesn't care who she pises off to get her points across. Was Anita hill unjustly treated? yes. was it bulshit that Thomas played the 'race card'? yes. was it the fault of every man? no.

but for some reason that is what she was saying, that if you were born with a penis it is your fault she was treated unfairly. perhaps i was reading too much into it, pwerhaps i was reading the book wrong. Im not sure and I dont know. but i feel she was was hard on men. Men didnt screw with Hill's career, it was a small gorup of people who happened to be men. I hate lakoff. im out.