White Fragility Blog Post Chapter 11
Garrett McLeod Professor Heather Stewart-Steele ENGL-1303 May 2, 2021 White Fragility Chapter 11 Blog Response The main purpose of this chapter is to point out a specific form of self-victimization that white women in particular seem to engage in on a fairly regularly basis, judging from her experience engaging with people in racial workshops. Playing the victim is something that men and women do equally but it is probably true that women, and in this case white women because they are the members of the oppressing group, tend to use tears in order to both gain sympathy and distract from the issue at hand while men would play the victim in a different way. It is important to never automatically dismiss the feelings of anyone, so caution must be used when trying to determine whether self-victimization is in fact what is going on, otherwise you might be taking the risk of alienating someone who was not in f...
