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“What I love about Winnicott is that he does not demonize the False self. To the contrary, Winnicott believes the false self protects the true self: “The false self has one positive and very important function: to hide the true self, which it does by compliance with environmental demands.” Like a king casting behind a rock in chess, the more valuable but less powerful piece retreats behind the less valuable but more powerful one. Because the relationship between the true self and the false self symbiotic, Winnicott believes both selves will exist even in the healthy individual.” People hide their identity all the time. I believe when people are applying for a job or at a work place they have to hide their identity because society can’t cope with peoples true selves. For example when applying to a job you can’t always show your true self because the person who plans on hiring you might not like your true self and can choose not to hire you if they don’t want too. That’s why it would be best to show your false self to cover who you are. It’s kind of messed up that we as people have to hide who we are, but that’s just the way society is today.
Hiding your identity can be good and bad for a person all depending on the particular circumstances. For example it can be bad because when looking for friends you won’t find the group of people that you fit in with because your hiding your identity. However, it can be good too because hiding your identity can keep you from getting hurt.“When I was in graduate school, there was an African- American man who studied German Romantic poetry. Under your model, I could easily see someone saying he was covering his African American identity by studying something so esoteric and highbrow. But it was clear to me he was studying Romantic poetry because he was seized by it. And if someone had assumed he was studying it to act white they would have diminished him as a human being.” A prime example of this is when Jussie Smollett got hurt because of his identity. If the people who hurt Jussie Smollett just left him alone and accept who he is as a person and not diminishing him as a human being everything would be fine, but it’s not because society is so afraid of change.
“The universality of the covering demand, however, is also a potential boon for civil rights advocates. I too worry about our current practice of fracturing into groups, each clamoring for state and social solicitude. For this reason, I do not think we can move forward by focusing on the old-fashioned group-based identity politics. We must instead build a new civil rights paradigm on what draws us together rather than on what drives us apart. Because covering applies to us all.” Society loses so much when people feels as though they have to hide who they are as a person. Society loses originality and all the good ideas people could have but we miss out on this because people are probably to afraid to share what their thinking. However if people didn’t cover who they are, society has so much to gain from it. People wouldn’t feel scared to share their ideas and who they are as a person because everyone would be treated equal and it wouldn’t matter who you are as a person.
“The universality of the covering demand, however, is also a potential boon for civil rights advocates. I too worry about our current practice of fracturing into groups, each clamoring for state and social solicitude. For this reason, I do not think we can move forward by focusing on the old-fashioned group-based identity politics. We must instead build a new civil rights paradigm on what draws us together rather than on what drives us apart. Because covering applies to us all.” To protect the civil rights of people facing societal demands to cover we as a society have to come together and inform everyone about this issue. The more aware people are the better it would be to stop this social demand society has. A great way to really get the word out about social demand to society is to have it trend on social media.
Hiding your identity can be good and bad for a person all depending on the particular circumstances. For example it can be bad because when looking for friends you won’t find the group of people that you fit in with because your hiding your identity. However, it can be good too because hiding your identity can keep you from getting hurt.“When I was in graduate school, there was an African- American man who studied German Romantic poetry. Under your model, I could easily see someone saying he was covering his African American identity by studying something so esoteric and highbrow. But it was clear to me he was studying Romantic poetry because he was seized by it. And if someone had assumed he was studying it to act white they would have diminished him as a human being.” A prime example of this is when got hurt because of his identity. If the people who hurt Jussie just left him alone and accept who he is as a person and not diminishing him as a human being everything would be fine, but it’s not because society is so afraid of change.
