week 5
In Lorde’s “Age, Race, Class, and Sex,� essay she analysis how oppression takes onto people’s lives. She discovered the fact that we need to think about oppression in many different ways and we need to realize that these obsession exists. This mythical norms explanation of oppression she gives her readers, she herself believe are the cause of oppression. She said that mythical norms are groups that we all at least fit in one, either “white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, Christian, and financially secure.�
I know it’s hard for Lorde to live as a lesbian, color and woman. But there are “limits�when it comes to performing gender. She said that in the black communities, black women have to realize that racism is a living reality, different among them are often dangerous and suspect. She talks about how white women oppress black women and how other black women also oppress each other too. She said that white women often don’t realize that colored women faces race issues.
As reading Lorde’s essay I realized that she capitalize Black, Color only and not american and white. These clues of her’s are telling her readers her main point about this essay. What sense she’s talking about and how strongly she felt about this oppression stage. That sets us form performing our own gender.