“I guess you could say I’ve never experienced true prejudice.

I am not a woman, so I cannot truly put myself in the shoes of my XX chromosome counterparts. I appear white passing, so I have had opportunities that I have been able to take advantage of, because I did not have too much on my shoulders.

So when the professor partnered me with Jhanaiya, I wasn’t expecting to be partnered up with someone so passionate about their subject which I had, as I told her, thrown mine together last minute. But hers was a topic she was clearly thinking about.

I, however couldn’t understand her conviction of her subject. I don’t feel that there are obstacles the prevent ‘minorities’ from becoming successful. Race, gender, orientation, ethnicity, are not factors that effect how high you can make it up in society.

I didn’t want to hear Jhanaiya’s argument because I did not want to seen as prejudice myself. If I admit that there aren’t equal opportunities, I might seem sexist or racist. Or maybe I just don’t understand hardship based on unchangeable things about myself, because I’m not on the suffering side of the spectrum.