Black Women and White Women and their bodies involving the Women’s March

I think that the lecture done by Mr. Carson was very informative on an issue that we as a society have not covered. I did find that it was a little ironic that Mr Carson was giving a lecture about the Women’s March and Black Women and White Women and their bodies yet he was a man. Although I do think he did a great job of guiding the conversation and bringing up multiple different topics. 

During our conversation we hit various points about Black and White women. One thing that I thought was interesting was the aspect of “silence from white women”. I believe that white women did not talk much about their femininity and tried to not bring up the idea of equal rights for a very long time. Now, it is starting to change because of the women’s march yet I think that a lot of white women still do not talk about feminism and equal rights for them and allow for men and other women to use the fact that they don’t stand up for themselves against the white women that still don’t believe in the entire issue of feminism. A few terms that I learned during the talk was “weathering” which is considering your life expectancy, infertility and what is considered to happen to our bodies. I was informed that “weathering” is much worse for black women because of the oppression they receive from men and women and the microaggressions that are used against them in every aspect of daily life. Another term that I learned about was “white women tears” which we talked about by reading a case study about a woman that felt uncomfortable in her work place. White women tend to use their “white women tears” in situations where black women tell white women that they are uncomfortable. White women then believe that they are being offended and use their tears to change the direction of the problem and make it about them. These terms were useful to my understanding of how women struggle with their femininity and identity as black women. I also liked that we watched a couple of music videos from different artists and broke down the video and talked about what was happening in the video. The Saturday Night Live skit that revolved around the world finding out that Beyoncé was black was a little bit funny. Although, the reactions of the actors faces in the video were used to display how our society is taking the news of Beyoncé being black and that they now look at Beyoncé in a different fashion because of her ethnicity. 

Overall I enjoyed this talk and felt as though it was a comfortable conversation that was informative on various aspects of  Black and White women’s bodies and the Women’s March.