English class blog

As a refrigerator, i have to deal with people putting various food substances inside me, but today i was thrown out on the street, due to an inferiority complex. It didn’t matter to me for i was tried of servicing the same forsaken house for over thirty years, five of which i was on the market. Anyway, i was sitting by the dumpster when i heard a car speeding down the road. Being a refrigerator, i couldn’t move anywhere unless acted upon by an outside force. The car was getting closer and closer. I finally saw the car and…*SMASH!* i’ve been hit! What a jerk! A man emerged from the wrecked vehicle with a bat. “What are you doing with a bat?” i said, or would have said had i a mouth, but the man passed right by me and entered the house of my previous residence. There were only two possible scenarios: He’s going to beat the snot out of my owners, or he’s just asking for a phone and just likes to carry a bat. What do you think will happen next. Surprisingly he emerged from the house thanking my owners. I was relieved to not be a witness to a crash and a murder in one day. My luck soon changed as the man walked up to me, opened my door, and kicked it off. Being a refrigerator, i have no nerves, therefore i felt no pain, but it was still quite annoying. The man returned to his car and came out with a sledge hammer. Where was this guy going with a bat and sledge hammer? Well, at least i can’t be found responsible for the damages to his car. *CRUSH* *SMASH* *THUD*

1.  I think the test the author took reviled him to be racist because it true, we all have a root instinct that tells that they should be more cautious and suspicious of groups outside your own race group. 
2. These tests require you to make decisions in little time, making you revert to primal instinct, and that instinct brings out unknown feelings toward different ethnic groups. 
3. Sexism is harder to fight than racism because we see everyday, in our communities, from the moment we were born, the roles of men and women and how they act towards one another. We all learn, even when we don’t realize it. With information like that being branded into our minds, it makes it harder to ignore. On the other side, roles of race aren’t out in the open as much, so you able to ignore race issues better than those dealing with gender. 
4. It’s harder for women in this world to be employed to jobs of great responsibility and power because the world doesn’t view women in their mind as powerful. People rely more on the stereotype of women being warm, friendly, homemakers, thus creating confusion once a women takes the place of cold and uncaring.  
5. The author says that the real problem for women is competing in politics when they are usually in place is a man, as we look at to be strong and ruthless, unlike the women we see in everyday life. I think the problem is slowly changing itself from the inside. With the presidential election on the horizon, both the candidates for the democratic side are people out of the group of former presidents and i think most people looked at them in surprise, no matter race or gender of the spectators, for the candidates were in a different group than the presidents that came before.
6. The author wrote that the issue can be confronted by introducing more female professors who are also experienced in ways to reduce gender stereotypes. I believe that just by having more jobs that you would see a man fit for and have that job being done by a woman, the next generation will be greatly open to this idea and will grow up seeing the world in a more balanced way. Same idea can apply to race as well. With jobs that are usually occupied by white people and seeing someone of a different race doing the same job, racism loses its grip on children of the next generation.