“a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.” Explain what you understand this definition to mean.
Hooks believe that feminism is for everybody for our equal rights and that some women make it about themselves and want to live like men. What I believe about this definition is that it speaks about men and women or any gender should have the same rights and that feminism stands for the change of positivity where there’s no domination. “See how feminism can touch and change your life and all our lives. Come closer and know firsthand what the feminist movement is all about. Come closer and you will see: feminism is for everybody.”(Hooks)
How does this definition compare with what you thought “feminism” meant before you did this reading?
I thought feminism was about women who demanded the same right as men and wanted to have the same equality, and the empowerment of all women to realize their full potential and rights. This might sound funny but I actually never read about feminism because of how bad social media makes them look. I think I learn more about its bad image or reputation than the advantages of strengthening human rights. I watch more about when women make it to their advantage and take it too far without acceptance of Men and women being born with different characteristics. Where I came from people judge badly the women who call themselves feminists clearly they do not have any knowledge about this topic because they think that those feminists are changing the culture and the reality of the role of men and women in society they believed that feminism is only about women who want to have higher power than men or want to do take domination over men which hurt their pride, unfortunately, both parties do not have any education about the meaning of the word and women in my country take it for their own advantage.
How do the reading Sex and Gender 101 compare with what you thought about gender before you did this reading?
“Gender assignment means that a person is categorized as either a masculine gender (boy/man) or a feminine gender (girl/woman) based on their external genitalia. This typically happens at birth or in-utero. Typically, if a baby appears to be biologically female they are assigned a feminine gender. If a baby appears to be biologically male they are assigned a masculine gender.” This is how I always view gender because this is how I grew up and my beliefs are due to my religion. I was raised due to my culture and more about my religion. We only identify ourselves as male or female depending on our sex, a lot of people have a different way of viewing genders and I think everyone has the right to believe or follow whatever they want as long as it’s not affecting anyone’s life.
