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REFLECTION 6: How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously

EMERGENCY ROOMS! Usually acknowledged as the department in the hospital that provides immediate treatment. Often seen as a place we visit for a lifesaving which in many cases it can turn into a frightening experience. Shocking to hear and to have seen with my own eyes frightening experiences in the emergency room.

People are appalled after reading articles that deal with opposite ideas of their thoughts or knowledge. It is not easy for people to wrap their heads around the concept that doctors take women’s pain less seriously. It is difficult to absorb information as curl as that. Society labels women being sensitive and weak. Automatically predicting that women in an emergency room or anywhere have priority to men.

After reading this article it upsets me that Rachel was physically scared after her visit at the emergency room. According to her husband Rachel is still grappling with the trauma of not being seen. Rachel’s experience at the emergency room has brought her nightmares some nights. Emergency room patients are suppose to be immediately assessed and treated according to their condition. In a case of a women she is likely to be treated less aggressively until they prove that she is as sick as the male patient. Rachel waited hours to have a CT scan while she was in so much pain. The male doctor was not as concerned as the female doctor was. The male doctor took Rachel’s pain less seriously being that she was a female. After the initial visit the male doctor never checked back in with Rachel due to he thought he was done with his job after he had prescribed the standard treatment for kidney stones, dilaudid the pain and a CT scan which had never been done when Rachel was under his supervision. At the end of the day the ER and male doctors should be improved women’s pain needs to be taken more seriously.

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REFLECTION 5: Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex

        Black, Latino, Native American, and many Asian youth are portrayed as the purveyors of violence and traffickers of drugs. It has become a big business in network of prisons and jails. There is a mass number of people from poor, immigrant, and racially marginalized communities suffering because they are being categorized as criminals. To the public there is a justification of attempting to disappear the problems of homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy. When I read that more than 70 percent of the imprisoned population are people of color I was not surprised because of the cruel world we live in. For many decades not much has changed in the system of prisons and jails. I was shocked when the reading stated that the fastest growing group of prisoners are black women. It upsets me that the criminal justice system targets specific genders within race.

The system we live under does not hesitate to impress me. In California since 1964 more than twenty new prisons have been opened. Now comparing to the education system only one new campus had been added to the California State University system. Instead of educating people the system thinks that opening prisons is the  solution to our problems. Instead of improving we are setting ourselves for something worse. Segregating people and placing a label as criminal will not help our system improve. Majority of the people have been tricked into believing in the efficacy of imprisonment. It has been historically proven that prisons do not work to benefit the public as believed. Most people of color are imprisoned for the wrong reasons or no reason at all. Angela Davis is a excellent example of a colored woman who was in jail for something she did not commit.

Most colored people who are imprison do not have right resources due to they are surrounded by poverty. People are not exposed to certain resources that limit them from the rest. Some resources might be food or water which might trigger the need to rob or no employment therefore the need to sell drug to live off some money. These are the same people that if resources like education was offered just maybe there would not be this issue. In my eyes prisons and jails are not helping instead they are giving a negative view on the system. More importance and awareness should be applied to prisons. There is a lot of things that occur behind closed doors that many would not even imagine. Women and men both suffer when put in prisons. Although women and men even in prison like in any other place have different levels of treatment. Therefore the prison industrial complex has many problems within that need to be fixed.

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REFLECTION 4: Women and their Bodies: A Course

“Abortion is our right--our right as women to control our own bodies.”

I found this topic of abortion to be very sensitive to read about. The right to determine an abortion is a serious choice for any women, it determines their destiny. My personal belief of being either pro-life or pro-choice interfered when I was reading this article. There are many debates on weather a women should follow basic human rights in deciding abortion or having the child. In the other hand many put a burden upon women. These type of people are pro-life meaning they oppose on abortions because they believe that no women should choose under any circumstances weather it is rape or any dangerous terms to consider abortion a choice.

The reading touches upon many points that I strongly confirm to. Some examples are as children we are taught that sex is not quite right and it is barely talked upon. Even though society implies the teachings of being sexy and flirtations. This why young girls become pregnant at young ages. Women are force to believe that they are only valued under acceptable terms of being treated as sex objects or becoming mothers. From my personal experience growing up I witnessed a couple of girls around the age range of 15 and older get pregnant having to decide whether to get abortions or not. For the same reason that some of these young girls had no other choice. Being that they were much too scared to reach out for help from their parents from the beginning. Some problematic issues that women face are being wrong for not asking about birth control but still being wrong if women do ask about it. By asking about birth control women are called out for admitting that we are having sex “doing the bad thing” as some can say.

The author talks about some upsetting abortion methods. Women just by the nature of things will look for alternatives when things go wrong. In some situations when a women is poor the abortion is proceed in a unsanitary environment. The reading refers to six self-induced abortions. It states how the most unskilled abortionist of all is the women herself being that it can put them in danger. For example, women will take extremely hot baths, various long sharp tools of self-mutilation, take in massive expensive doses and many more other dangerous methods. It upsets me how curl humans can be to one another instead of helping one another on personal medical life choices.

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REFLECTION 3:  Martlin Chap 5, Teo, T. Epistemological Violence

Epistemological violence is a practice that is presented in empirical research articles, chapters, and books in psychology (and the social sciences), when theoretical interpretations of empirical results implicitly or explicitly construct the Other as inferior or problematic, despite the fact that alternative interpretations, equally viable, based on the data, are available. (Teo, 594)

“Epistemological Violence” can be defined separately. The word epistemological is the framed knowledge that a person thinks they know about the other when in reality it is the interpretation. The term violence is the behavior either physical to hurt or a negative impact on the other. Teo argues that race, gender, class, disability, homosexuality, and much more can be transmitted as a form of violence. The article talks about two forms of epistemological violence. The first form of epistemological violence can be understood though the concept being historical and theoretical situated. A form of violence can be seen among interpretations. This is regarding the separation or segregation of the two groups. The second type of epistemological violence has fewer problems because according to the article it reinforces the differences between facts and decisions. Epistemological violence can be a form of oppression that breaks a person down to question their existence and differences. Race, gender and class have a strong relationship with epistemological violence. People try to hide that there can be an existences for epistemological violence. This type of violence might be difficult to see. Epistemological violence imposes our way of thinking and marginalizes others. It can create forms of power that take the rights of others. A victim of epistemological violence can become silence. The person will lose their identity and instead it will promote stereotypes and prejudice actions/words against others. Epistemological violence can be traced back in history. There is a need for change people should not have to life in silence unknowledgeable of who they are in reality. Topics for example like race or class might be difficult to talk about even though by nature it is a topic that surely is talked about usually not in a kind form but violent.  It is important to acknowledge that knowledge will be constructed usually if not always under people of power. 

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REFLECTION 2: Butler, J. Undoing Gender (Doing Justice to Someone)

This sentence directly from the reading summarizes this passage  perfectly:  “He is, in his view, a man born a man, castrated by medical establishment, feminized by the psychiatric world, and then enabled to return to who he is.”

If I went back in time to my child self and someone asked me about gender I would of never imagined how complicated in reality it really is. My child self would of thought of gender being a girl or boy nothing in between or beyond. Today I am still confused but surely educating myself to be open-minded upon gender.

In this specific reading my emotions and sense of understanding became sensitive. The reading opens up to a story quite rare but possible. David Reimer was brought into this world originally a boy. Later in life David was forced to become Brenda someone that David did not identify one bit because of a doctor. It worries and saddens me what doctors are cable of doing. David’s life changed completely only at eight months from birth. The doctor accidentally burned David’s penis because he was using a new machine which apparently he had not used before. It frightens me how situations like this can happen all over the world in a blink of an eye.

It does not stop there. The parents of David followed a recommendation to raise him as a girl by Dr. John Money. This is the moment when David becomes Brenda. I do not agree with anything the doctor or the parents did to David. I understand that his parents wanted the best for David. They wanted him to be welcomed into society and be normal. I strongly believe that the parents chose the wrong decision here. David being Brenda suffered a lot of mistreatment by many. In the reading David states how unhappy he was being Brenda. David always knew deep inside he was originally a boy. I believe David was challenged due to having a twin brother which made it more difficult. David felt like a boy but was forced to be feminized by the world. After reading this case I would not want anyone and specially a child as young as David to experience everything he went through. I am still trying to understand the how and why people have to go through situations like this. Everyone should be able to be free and live with the gender they desire.

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This toxic trend of blaming women for everything has got to stop. Let Queen live her life free from harassment and abuse.

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You’re not responsible for the actions of others !

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REFLECTION 1: FINE, C. BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS

Stereotype Threat : Describes the experience of “being at risk of confirming, as self-characteristics, a negative stereotype of one’s group” (Steel & Aronson, 1995)

The term “stereotype threat” can bring about many negative comments. It is usually based on various categories for example religion, race, class, gender and many more. In the reading it states that researchers suggest a combination that is quite deadly of “knowing-and-being.” The example used to demonstrate “knowing-and-being” I personally found to be offensive. It was a phase that was repeated often when I was growing up. The phase is targeted towards women. It states “women are bad at math and I am a women” basically stating a phase and then confirming it. Girls at a young age until they are women are taught that they are not capable of what a man can do. The reading spoke out to be and I can imagine to how many others. From my personal experience when reading many examples would come to mind. Growing up in a Hispanic/Latino household my mother would repeatedly mention stereotype threats. One that I remember and question my mother about is why are only men aloud to cry. These were my mother’s exact words she would use “girls cry boys do not cry.” Meaning women are aloud to cry and show weakness and boys are not. Based off this one experience I can say this is why a lot of boys grow up to be men and do not know how to express their feelings. I believe there needs to be a wake up call for equality on an emotional level.