DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.
Ocean Wong

Ocean Wong is 20 year old who dreams of having a job at the NYPD as an officer. The younger of two siblings who currently goes to John Jay to study criminal justice(BS), as a Junior, he hopes the degree will have some use to him in the future. He comes from an Asian background and is a first generationer here in America. Thus that makes him the first Asian American in his family tree currently. Some hobbies include watching hit shows like, Criminal Minds or Elementary; other hobbies include listening to music. He also happens to be a huge metal head and has been listening since his middle school-er days. Some of his favorite bands include Lamb of God, Nirvana, Greenday, and Pantera.  

Barry Deutsch's work, The Male Privilege Checklist, is just what it sounds like: the ways in which men are privileged.

Deutsch tries to explain how men have this invisible privilege over women. However Deutsh didn't start this from the ground up as he already had a foundation in place in the form of Peggy McIntosh's 1990s essay, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (Deutsch, 2009, p.1). He changed McIntosh's list to a focus on maleness. Thus he managed to make his own list similar 

to McIntosh and he received a lot of suggestions when posted on internet message boards. However, he also faced critics who said that men don't have all the advantages over women ad have just as many disadvantages. Deutsch argued back that not everything on the list applies to every male; it's just a general list for a general audience. He faced other counter-arguments with detractors who said that this list makes women look bad and victimizes them. Deutsch points out that the list isn't made to make women look like victims; it simply points out the unequal opportunities women have and, in reality, "without that acknowledgment it isn't possible to fight injustice" (Deutsch, 2009, p. 14).


In my personal view as an Asian male, I feel Deutsch 's list is very true on many levels, not just my gender, but also my race. Especially true to me is the fact that:

"On average, I am taught to fear walking alone after dark in average public spaces much less than my female counterparts are. As a child, chances are I was encouraged to be more active and outgoing than my sisters" (Deutsch, 2009, p. 15).  To be honest, that thought never really crosses my mind as I can walk home alone at 3am without a worry.  I have a privilege here because the thought doesn't even pop into my mind and I continue with only a minor nuisance on occasion.

 

I also have a older sister who currently works at Harvard with a father who would tell me: "you should get better grades and be smarter than your sister because you're a guy." I never really cared about it because it was clear that my sister was the smarter one out of us two and I knew I couldn't compete against her. Despite that, my dad would still tell me to be better because I was a guy. His rural Chinese background focused heavily on the males as the dominate head of the household and females as a supporting role. As a male and as an Asian man, Deutsch's list overal rings true. 



 

 

 

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.