Comments on: Rankism

By: Marc Fine

Marc Fine — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:58:24 +0000

I had my first “ah ha” moment shortly after reading your books, regarding the flap around Rush Limbaugh and Rahm Emanuel tossing around the “retard” epithet:
It seems like there�s always some group that is �fair game� to put down, whether it�s blacks, gays, Jews, fat people, or the mentally retarded. But what is acceptable behavior one day becomes unacceptable the next (do to awareness, education, or simply social pressure). We need to come to a place where no person and no group is fair game. And that, to me, is the mission of the Dignity Movement.

By: Somebodies and Nobodies: Understanding Rankism « DEMO

Somebodies and Nobodies: Understanding Rankism « DEMO — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:20:02 +0000

[...] is rankism? First, a specific example; then, a general definition. An executive pulls into valet parking, late [...]

By: roberto

roberto — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:18:31 +0000

Rankism can limit productivity, abilities or desires of people, including the productivity of a nation.

By: Hello, My Name Is Kate » Rankism

Hello, My Name Is Kate » Rankism — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:41:22 +0000

[...] This is an interesting website, about the idea of rankism. More basic than racism or homophobia, rankism is seeing yourself as above another person, and acting accordingly. [...]

By: Kerrie B. Wrye

Kerrie B. Wrye — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:18:27 +0000

It seems the moment we go looking for the help we need in our lives, all manner of topics cross can our paths anymore. Synchronicity is really getting noisier and noisier to recognize!
The word “Rankism” looks like many things to me at a distance, since, I have not looked much deeper at the intention or context of this idea, or of a ‘Dignity Movement.’ I have just encountered “Rankism,” and “The Dignity Movement” as subjects due to an email list I am on… Impressionistically, I believe I can grasp the basic concepts here, as being another facet in the larger discussion on conscious human evolution.

Is there room inside this topic for the complicated relationships inside families who have the legacy of unhealed abuses? Specifically where a female predecessor has been a childhood victim of sexual trauma, and remaining unconscious to the memories, has passed a lifetime of unspoken, unrecognized and consequently unmet needs for deep healing down to her children, creating a pattern of targeting behaviors that are pointed negatively at her own daughter, as well as manipulative behaviors for protection that have utilized sons as “husbands of convenience?” These patterns are terrifically polarizing in a family of origin over the course of a life, and have debilitating emotional and psychological consequences that most people commonly seem to ignore as ever existing. It seems that only the targeted are left with the brunt end of consequences that are harder to ignore, or avoid.

By: anita henri

anita henri — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:51:55 +0000

RANKISM: just the info i needed as i continue to struggle with a non-profit corporation to fufill its contract with my low income housing complex in california. with murders, stabbings, vandalism, burglaries, domestic violence, arson, you name it – i’ve been trying to address it with management for years now. being poor, past middle age, disabled and a woman, i often feel powerless and want to throw my hands in the air and say F it! but i will never stop advocating for social order and promises kept. i must remember i am a person, not a problem.

By: Laura Jean L.

Laura Jean L. — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:58:11 +0000

I don’t want to put my last name on here because it is very unusual and easily recognizable. Not that I am going to say anything I wouldn’t want repeated. I, too , am female and have worked for years in construction and in a shipyard. there is definitely rankism among the male union members. Not all of them but enough to make earning a living a tough struggle. Such a tough struggle that I am looking for something else to do. It’s bad enough that union construction workers get abused by contractors and our own officers; it’s doubly bad when I can see that I am discounted and ignored even though I have talent to contribute. Discounted and ignored by the very “brothers” that feel betrayed and abused by the union officials they elected and the contractors we work for.
Good luck with this site. I am looking forward to reading more of it as I have only read two pages so far. Hang in there, P. Tall. You are not alone. Nor you G. Ford.
They(the perpetrators of rankism) try to keep us women apart so we cannot work together for change.

By: G. Ford

G. Ford — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:40:50 +0000

Having been on all sides at one time or another during my 38 years of work history and being female, I have absolutely seen it all. There is one thing for certain – daily, there will always be one person (at least) in management or co-workers who will make your life uncomfortable or miserable. Mr. Fuller is “right on”! Rankism exists, always has and it’s time to educate all workers/management, male and/or female.

The next thing for certain is that trying to stay alive and well in a non-union workplace definitely can be hard on your health. If you have no one to stand up for and assist you, trust me, I’ll take the union work every time. No one is perfect but it’s better being in numbers than alone.

By: P. Tall

P. Tall — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:57:48 +0000

I’d like to call your attention to a problem that has been getting worse over a period of about 20 years. Auto plant unions are strong because of the long history of united efforts among auto workers. The women who participated, however, were being abused to the 90th power in these auto plants by so other so called members (males)”brotherhood”. Today it is even worse. This “brotherhood” (after indulging in some of the most, confrontational, retaliatory, harassing, harmful (death by design) of female co-workers, has the nerve to say “as brothers and sisters we have to stick together on the strikeline! This galls me to no end. Worse, women are turning upon other women. It is an infestation of self destruction. The disunity of auto workers is destroying their own work place. All of this will ultimately have contributed to the nearing destruction of this very country! I am very, very, very upset by this. Don’t think for a moment that I have not tried to initiate a cessation of this ‘organized’ chaos. For my efforts I was silenced . Surely you can imagine what this entailed.

By: Shonda

Shonda — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:50:40 +0000

I am teaching this concept in my Critical Perspectives course. I find it to be a really important concept for teachers to be aware of.

Thank you.