Women's Capabilities and Addressing Discrimination

Yes We Can All women are capable of doing anything a man can do. For all the articles I have read. I must say that it is sad to be treated so poorly by people that do not even know what you are capable of doing. People are discriminated by their race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, ethnicity, or even thier appearances. People must understand that every person is different. Some are mean. Some are weak. It does not matter. What matter is that we do not judge people. Let us see what they are capable of doing. All of these articles have show me that discriminating against each other is easy to do, but think of the people you are hurting from it. It is discrimination and here I though you were better then that. In Brent Staples’ article, “Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to

In the second article “Why Looks Are the Last Bastion of Discrimination” by Deborah L. Rhode, talks about being judge by thier appearance. I went through a similar situation like this. For the way I look one of my teacher from my past use to tell me you are dumb, and you will never graduate from school. I will say it did hurted me me because who will want to a teacher like that. I sure I did not. Even through the words hurts me still. I am happy because I am almost going graduated with my associates for an Licensed Vocational Nurse. Sometimes I feel like going back to that teacher and showing him that I am smarter then what you have realized. But then what does that prove that I am like him in a way. I told myself I will never get down to his level of coldness. What that teacher didn't know was this, "We all know that appearance matter, but the price prejudice can be steeper than we often assume" (p 246). Which means it effects the person more than what the other person might think. So I will let him see me one day hopefully attending him in a hospital and see the shock he will have in his