After reading the passage "Woman warrior" given to us to read this weekend, I made some mental ties to her ideas about people's views of women to modern views of men. People in Ancient and even modern China to some extent still see women as inferior members of society. To them it seems the concept of a female breadwinner or warrior is impossible, despite the fact that women throughout history have proven in some cases to be just as if not more valuable than men. This culture of misogyny also existed in our country, but was eliminated after women gained equity in society. Some may argue that women are still treated as second class citizens in America to this day, yet I have never seen any definitive evidence for this idea. In fact, most evidence I have seen are simply bogus claims made up to make white, western women feel like they have or are just as oppressed as women of color in other countries. White women made up this concept of a "wage gap" to keep up their victim status while eastern women are subject to atrocities like female genital mutilation and brutal cases of rape backed up by the government.

Not only do I believe that white women in the west aren't oppressed, but I also strongly believe that white women are the oppressors of every other class in society. They constantly makes their voices heard, silencing women of color and men's issues in the process. Black men are still jailed at alarming rates, utterly destroying the sense of unity and family in the black community. Men of any color and women of color all get longer prison sentences than white women, even though white men should be further down the ladder... right? No one turns their head when a white women is put in jail for raping a student but when a woman of color or a man is in her place? Yet our culture still insists that white women still live in the shadow of white men, because white women are just innocent little creatures... right?