Was thinking about my PGCE training today, and a particularly awful module we had to do called "Embracing Diversity." It really was the most patronising, smug, set of workshops I've ever had to attend. I remember having to take part in a role play with the leader playing a non English speaker parent whose kid was late home from a trip...I was made to knock up improvised signs and basically TALK SLOWLY AND CLEARLY. Awful.
Anyway. Was thinking about a session we had to do all about "white privilege" - the implications of this by the end of the workshop being: the automatic assumption we could see people in authority who were of our own colour, there being silent "kinship" with people of our own "race, "etc, etc. I don't remember too much as the woman who delivered the workshop was (pardon French) the biggest fuckwit I've ever met. I KNOW the point she was trying to make, but it really was awful - she kept using the only non-white woman in the room for examples of everything!
So, I was thinking today - surely it would be equally valid to argue there's such a thing a "male privilege." Example: Males have the advantage of being naturally assumed to be in authority, rather than having to assert themselves. I don't know quite where I'm gonig with this, but if anyone has any comments I can mull over with my wien and Waterloo Road I would love to read them.
Cheers all!
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"White Privilege"
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