Gender_Power_And_Difference

Gender Power And Difference In today’s society, we cannot recognize and appreciate who a person really is, because our minds are too busy questioning about racial identity; whether or not you pass, and how well you fulfill the standards, the requirements of that particular race. You cannot be seen as a beautiful, poetic woman, for this description is too bare for the average mind to simply accept, but add a little racial identification, “a beautiful, African-American, poetic woman”, and now everything will be okay. Now one can internally further their judgment based on these vital words. People need not know a person too well, all they need to know is what there racial identity is, for without these small bits of information, the judger too feels at a loss of racial identity because there is no other ways of comparison in the average mind. “ Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, written by Audre Lorde, talks about how humans see differences in extreme opposites, where as everything is beautiful or ugly, good or bad, positive or negative, this or that…no in betweens. If we allow things such as in betweens, then the boundaries of what is interpreted as race, people, one, person, being, really, racial, about, standards, group, because, yet, women, ways, way, place, out, once, need, know, cannot, been, beautiful, themselves, sex, sense, redefining, point, now, nothing, must, lower, life, identity, good