I am a proud, strong woman and feminist. I think about the things that make me different from men almost daily. I think about society suppressing me. Why should I earn eighty cents to the dollar? Why do women have to wear high heels to gain respect?
According to Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare in Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers “The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.
The concept of race is one which has seen a relatively recent introduction into American culture, and one which is falsely understood to have a biological basis by many individuals. Racial categories place people together in one group based on physical features which are perceived as being similar, despite stark differences in ethnicity.
Socoioeconomic status is a difference in the distribution of wealth, power, and prestige. Originally understood as the difference between capitalists (the bourgeoisie) and the working class (the proliteriat), “socioeconomic stratification is not a cultural universal; it arose with the earliest states… which first appeared in Mesopotamia, according to anthropologist Morton Fried.
