Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: farmerl@handel.cs.colostate.EDU (lisa ann farmer) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: racism/sexism in all of us Message-ID: <14688@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 7 May 91 17:13:05 GMT References: <1991Apr30.214919.24659@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: lisa ann farmer Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Lines: 23 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: blanche.ics.uci.edu >>sociologist, psychologist, feminist, etc. The only thing I can think >>of is to somehow show (without alienating people) how forms of >>discrimination are set up (recognizing differences and identifying >>certain people as "others"; projecting problems, stereotypes, social >>woes onto them; and creating the division of "us" versus "them"), how >>they become engrained into society, and then how subtle actions, >>phrases, etc. are sexist/racist/whatever. If you let me "learn" on my >>own, I'm much more likely to change than if you "indoctrinate" me. In my Women in Science class we watched a filmstrip called "The Tale of O". My class thought this was a good way to bring up the issue. The only problem I saw with it was that most people would put themselves into the role of the one being discriminated against. BTW the filmstrip was showing how it was like to be an O in a world of X's. I think this type of filmstrip could be very beneficial to many people. I am sure it could be found in a library or resource center. It is worth checking out. Lisa farmerl@handel.cs.colostate.edu "If people want to make war they should make a colour war and paint each other's cities up in the night in pinks and greens." Yoko Ono (_Louder than Words_)