This weeks readings were very interesting and informative. I really enjoyed Allan Johnson, “Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, or an Us” it goes in depth about the patriarchy and how it can affect multiple aspects of our lives. The text does a great way of explaining how we can’t blame individuals but try to understand everything as a whole to understand why everything is the way it is more in depth. However we should try to understand this social problem and try to solve it as a society. This definitely has shifted my perspective a little because I did believe that it was all mens fault but instead it is societies fault. The second reading “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions” written by Audre Lorde does a great job of explaining the experience of intersectionality. She explains her experience as a black lesbian feminist women who is connected to different communities and how these different communities interact with each other to create a big cloud of oppression. She explains how she doesn’t have the luxury of choosing to deal with one oppression but instead is forced to face all of them. She also explains how there is no oppression that is higher than the other one or better because they’re all still forms of oppression. This also goes to explain how if we want to fight against one oppression we will have to fight against all of them as a society because not everyone has the luxury of picking which oppression they choose to battle.