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Internalized Sexism: Helpful Or Successful?

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On the occasion of Mother’s day this year, I was talking to my mother about how I was as a child growing up. She chuckled and lovingly said, “Oh you were so feisty and fierce, not afraid of speaking your mind, and always going after what you wanted.” She reinforced by saying, “you should bring back that feistiness and fierceness again,” she said with a warm smile. I thanked my mom for the insight, which made me wonder, how I have been too easygoing, less competitive, and just in general more of a mellow person as an adult. I ask myself what could be the factor that changed me to be more mellow than feisty. As a child, I was inquisitive and took challenges whether it was entering in a soccer competition or spelling competition; I was not afraid of failure or what other people might think. As an adult, I am still curious, but that curiosity has been pushed down by other life’s responsibilities, and difficulties with saying no at work, and trying to keep people happy at work or personal life has slowly changed me to be a mellow person and less assertive. …show more content…

The niceness has its advantages and disadvantages. I would like to talk about the disadvantages leading to an internalized sexism (McGrath, personal communication, 2018). Sexism is a form of oppression, where oppression or unfair treatment displayed by behaviors, actions, and attitudes within one’s own gender group (McGrath, personal communication, 2018). My goal is to examine the sexism that has been taking place and try to bring that fierceness and feistiness back from my childhood days to overcome the

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