Topic > Consideration Paper on Sexual Harassment - 1058

Even when people don't say it there is always an underlying assumption. I should stay quiet, do what I'm told, play an old-fashioned role, and not use resources allocated for those with more privilege than me. However, I can recognize my privilege, I am cisgender, hetrosexual, I have a fairly decent financial stability, a secure educational opportunity. Even Blue Ivy is not immune to objectification. He has more access to money, power and education than most of us can imagine. Since she was born, people have chosen her appearance as if she were not a baby, a toddler, a little girl, or a human being. People treat it as if it were a collaboration album between Beyoncé and Jay Z, to be evaluated and reviewed at our leisure. All the privileges she has don't diminish the fact that she is a black girl. And being a black girl gets little respect from the world around her. The college experience is starting to get more complicated. My generation is given a platform on social media. The frustration we feel and our experiences can be shared in moments. This shows that sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and classism happen every day all over the world. These are not isolated incidents, as the media sometimes would like to describe them. These are patterns that have plagued our world since the dawn of