Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Empowerment
Why ignorance
harms us
Kylie Jenner says that she feels
bound by her fame and that is
why she posed in a wheelchair.
In order to empower each other, we must all stop seeing each other as
other.
When we make people other, we group them together as the objects of
our experience instead of regarding them as fellow subjects of experience
with whom we might identify, (Wendell, 834).
Wendell states, If you are other to me, I see you primarily as symbolic of
something else-usually, but not always, something I reject and fear and
that I project onto you, (834).
In other words, we need to break out of the way weve been conditioned to
view people. Breaking free of the way weve been conditioned will allow us
to work together without boundaries.
Understanding
Purity and
Curdling
Cliteracy 101
Artists, like Sophia Wallace, are important to feminism because
her project, Cliteracy narrates for women. Our bodies are seen
as objects to men. Even in porn, women are a prop to male
pleasure. This reinforces the idea that women are others in our
society.
Learning about our bodies and making the female anatomy as
well-known as the penis is a small step towards our ultimate
goal. Our bodies are the mainstream erotic image, but our
anatomy and the uses of our organs are invisible. Its appalling
and shocking to think that scientifically, that the clitoris was
only discovered in 1998, (Wallace, Huffington Post 2013).
Closing
There are many ways we can empower marginalized groups.
Listening to their stories and making sure everyone is heard
when we are discussing feminism will make our cause that
much greater. Without the support of all of us, we are weak and
not inclusive. With all of us, we are unstoppable.