Recap

Today we made Dijori Doo’s. A fun experience to me, yet I have in fact done it before, and most of the background knowledge about Dijori Doo’s that was presented to us was stuff that I already knew. This wasn’t a huge surprise to me, seeing as music is what I do and so I’ve done some research on Dijeri Doo’s. This isn’t the point of this post though.

Yesterday, Jane got in an argument with the entire class, and I’m still not really sure what she was arguing for. The things that annoyed me were:

1. Jane kept arguing the with people when they were just sharing the opinion, something she had just scolded Alex for doing 2 minutes prior.

2. Jane interrupted Shannon while she was saying how her views on it related to the play, to say that everyone was getting off topic and that we need to start thinking about the play…

3. Jane said she wasn’t liking the vibe from one corner of the room. That corner only had males in it, and the only person talking was Russel… or rather he was trying to talk, but Jane kept interrupting him before he could make his point.

The third thing was the one that really got to me. I don’t appreciate being called sexist, and I feel like that’s what was happening. It turned into a feminism conversation, with statements like “controlling, dominant, white males”  being thrown out. That is a very uncomfortable conversation for a white male to be in, especially when 3/4 of the class is female. The problem is that I have trouble voicing these concerns without being called sexist. One of my biggest problems is the idea that people who have been discriminated against therefor have the right to discriminate. I myself have heard some individual feminists say that they don’t like how “white males always put people of other ethnicities and women into categories and then make generalizations about them.” That kind of talk makes me furious, because it’s so hypocritical, all they’re doing is making generalizations about people of another ethnic group and/or sex. This really hits hard with me, but it’s an argument I can never win, because I’ve been painted into the same corner that is host to some specific white males that did terrible things long before I was even born. It’s ridiculous, and this conversation went way too far. I was about 15 seconds away from getting up and leaving the classroom because of some of the things my classmates and even Jane herself said. Discrimination isn’t a one way street.