Examples Of White Privilege

Peggy McIntosh, in her paper “white privilege and male privilege”, describes how white people and males have developed the capacity to hide, not realize, or not demonstrate that they have privileges just due to their race or gender. She collects materials and prospectives from women’s studies, where it is often noticed men’s unwillingness to accept that they are over privileged, but are willing to accept that women are disadvantaged. This generates denials that protect male privilege from being recognized or ended.
This gender discrimination can be seen from the racial point of view as well, and it is that whites are not willing to recognize their white privilege. These two dimensions of privileges are related in the sense that both, males and whites are carefully thought to not recognize such privilege. The author describes white
Since I was a kid, my father thought me that women and men had different rolls in the society, starting from home, where the boys don’t have to go to the kitchen, while women are responsible for the food and the cooking. In the other hand, when my father had to discipline us, I used to receive a much harder spank than what my sisters used to receive when committing the same type of fault. Such concepts were normal for me for most of my life, but my generation had already changed the way this was seen, my generation was more balanced toward gender equality, reason why my character began to define my own way of observing and treating people. Finally I ended to be a balanced guy, who “respects” diversity. After reading this paper, that “respects”, has changed substantially, because I noticed that my male privilege awareness was too low, and that the white privilege was not a big issue for me, however, it was kind of unconscious as