Lecture 9: Privilege

Question 1

What is privilege?

Answer 1

1. An unfair or unearned advantage based on personal traits (gender, race, country you were born in,etc.)
2. An undeserved special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste. Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank and !!!!!!!!!!exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Question 2

Is privilege a social determinant of health?

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

True or false: it took more than 100 years for the Olympics to achieve a 50-50 male-female athlete ratio.

Answer 3

True. 1896 = 0 % females, 2024 = 50% females

Question 4

True or false: there are many layers of privilege

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What is protecting male privilege from being fully recognized, acknowledged, lessened, or ended?

Answer 5

The denial of men being overprivileged, but saying women have disadvantage.

Question 6

We are taught about disadvantage and ignore what?

Answer 6

The privilege that creates the disadvantage.

Question 7

Men that do admit to male privilege are still likely to not admit what?

Answer 7

that male hegemony has opened doors for them and will doubt that these privilege systems can be dismantled.

Question 8

We are oblivious to our privilege, why?

Answer 8

we do not see what it is like to be disadvantaged and the people without that privilege go about their day without commenting because “that’s the way it is”

Question 9

While a privilege can make people confident, comfortable and oblivious, a disadvantage can ______________________________.

Answer 9

be made unconfident, uncomfortable and alienated.

Question 10

What can privilege protect you from?

Answer 10

Hostility, distress and violence

Question 11

What kind of privilege should not be desired?

Answer 11

the one that makes you thoughtless and oblivious. It must be beneficial to the whole society.

Question 12

the obliviously privileged may be given moral power, but wont be given _______________.

Answer 12

moral strength.

Question 13

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact___________

Answer 13

permission to escape or to dominate.

Question 14

We need to spread positive advantages to the point where?

Answer 14

they are just apart of normal civic and social things

Question 15

“Being white, I am given considerable power to ___________________________________”

Answer 15

escape many kinds of danger or penalty as well as to choose which risks I want to take

Question 16

true or false: We need more understanding of the ways in which white “privilege” damages white people

Answer 16

True

Question 17

What is the one thing in common with all oppressions?

Answer 17

they all take both active forms that we can see and embedded forms that members of the dominant group are taught not to see.