In the reading “Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy” gave us some descriptive and challenging meanings on what Feminism actually is. Feminism can be defined as the idea of freedom for women politically, economically, and socially with equal rights and opportunities for women as same as for men. The idea of feminism has been undergoing different changes and improvements. It identifies ways in which dominant conceptions and practices of knowledge attribution, acquisition, and justification systematically disadvantage women and other subordinated groups, and strives to reform these conceptions and practices so that they serve the interests of these groups. A feeling of altruism becomes important for ensuring the root feelings of feminism. Moral attitude is also required for keeping the feelings of the welfare of women alive. A committed behavior is also required to live the principles of feminism. If it remains in word, then there is no use of such feelings. Strong dedication and positive feelings are always required. In the other reading, “introduction to women, gender, sexuality studies”, discusses how one is viewed through one’s appearance. The fear that someone else will judge one’s appearance or behavior negatively and thereby conform that person’s prejudiced attitudes is known as stereotype threat. I think as diversity increases, people will stop making quick judgments about others as they will have no idea what the other person is based on their looks or appearance. We can stop making judgments based on appearance only when we understand the meaning of sayings that have been with us since the beginning of time. “Don’t judge a book by its cover” or “Beauty is skin deep.” We need to reject the stereotypes of how people look.
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