The following is a group discussion board piece in which I felt I did well in eliciting deeper analysis and provoked other students to questions their personal interpretations of the text. Many of my peers felt that I had accurately depicted human nature in the second to last paragraph when I refer to shortcuts in thinking processes.
In the discussion about “Dude Looks like a Lady” by Kathy Wilson, and “To Tame a Wild Tongue”by Gloria Anzaldua, I felt I challenged the readers to consider the inherent biases and perceived injustices at the hands of an oppressive culture. I attempted to challenge my peers and to explore the topic at a deeper level by asserting that there is a subtle but significant difference between oppression and ignorance.
In both texts, the authors claim oppression from external cultural influences. In this group discussion I asserted that malicious cultural oppression was perhaps not the cause of the their perceived injustice, but rather it was simply either a lack of the individual to recognize their actually cultural heritage or in the case of
While most feedback was positive, I do feel that I challenged some of my peers to approach the readings from a different perspective as well as deepen my own understanding that the causes of “stereotyping” are not always malicious.
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