Gender Stories
When I was younger I joined hockey in Eau Claire youth hockey association. They didn’t have a girl’s hockey team so of course I had to join the boys. I was a mites and I know I was completely awful. I was the only girl and I could barely skate. I knew I was the worst on the team but I didn’t care because hockey was so much fun. I worked at it and I progressively got better so by my 2nd year of hockey I dramatically improved. There was this boy who was on my team the first year that was better than me but when I came back I was better than him. He didn’t like that at all he would always be extremely rude to me and would make fun of me on the ice. One day after practice I was skating off the ice and he came up behind me a swung his hockey stick at me. He hit the back of my head and I fell to the ice. His mom was so angry at him and she almost made him quit. This was all because he I became better than him at hockey. There was one other boy that got better than him but he didn’t get mad at him. So it was obviously because I was a girl and he was getting beat by one.
Social Class
When I was younger, I classified my family as middle class. My mom is a school teacher. Since March, I have been classifying myself as lower class. I’m sure you know what I am talking about since my mom is a state worker in the state of Wisconsin. Since Scott Walker started picking on the working class it has taken a toll on my family. It is a classic situation of upper class picking on the lower class. It has definitely divided our society more. I think this has shaped my experiences because it has definitely made me more liberal than I already was. That shows how much social class had affected how people look at the world. Also since all of this happened I have realized how much money my mom spends on the essentials. It has made me pay for more stuff on my own. My family is definitely worrying about the financial status with two kids in college next year. That is how social class has affected me.
Race
I really don’t think race really affects me personally as I am never discriminated against due to the fact that I am white. I sometimes feel bad for people of color as I see they are sometimes discriminated against even today in our society. I live in the mid-west and my school and city are primarily white. As you said in class people who live in the Midwest are at a disadvantage because we live in the whitest place in the United States. Luckily, I have visited other countries where I have felt a minority. I have been to Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and many other places. I feel like I know a little bit more about different cultures and races because of it. In these countries I felt like a minority and in some case taken advantage of because I didn’t know the language. I felt like I was being watched more closely because of my color.
Religion
I was raised to be Lutheran. I was the perfect child because I went to church every Sunday and Wednesday. I went to church camp, was in the plays, joined chimes, and joined the youth group. Little did everyone know that my father forced to go to Church. I of course learned to resent. I had doubts about the Lutheran faith but I was scared to question it because everyone made me think that I was going to hell. I stopped going to church with my dad after 5th grade but I still went with my mom. She was more laid back when it came to church. But I still had doubts so after I got confirmed I decided that the Lutheran church wasn’t for me. As of right now I don’t know what faith I am. But it took a lot of courage to finally stand up and say I didn’t want to go there anymore.
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