Step 1: The Situation

Imagine for a moment that two university students, David and Sarah, are talking at a table in the student´s room at university. David is expressing his views on the school and his day, and Sarah is expressing hers. Imagine, however, that as the conversation continues, Sarah brings up an assignment that she is completing for her women’s studies class. It turns out that David does not think there should be a women’s studies program at the college, and he tells Sarah so. He argues that if there is a women’s studies program, then there should be a men’s studies program too. Furthermore, he argues that women are getting too many breaks in job hiring and that qualified men are the Receivers of discrimination. Sarah feels quite the contrary – arguing that women have been the Receivers of sexism for many years and even now do not have the same access to high-paying jobs that men do, or they have lower income if they are on the identical job as a man.