I watched the movie “United in Anger,” which I found to be incredibly powerful . It also educated me on a topic I was aware of but wasn’t well-versed in. This movie was about the aids epidemic and the ACT UP campaign organization. The organization ACT UP fought strongly to ensure that people with HIV/AIDS get the medical attention, treatments, and rights that they are due. I believed this campaign was highly effective because by protesting and never giving up, they were able to make their point in circumstances that some people thought were impossible to fight for. Despite these opinions, the movement continued anyway. I believe that ACT UP is a powerful organization of individuals who, in spite of their condition, did not give up on what they believed they should have done. My final observation is that this advocacy group successfully fought against authorities who were against bringing this epidemic to light. Access to healthcare, therapy, and housing for AIDS patients today is an indication of their hard work. 

The author makes the case that feminism and capitalism are essentially in conflict with one another by examining their connection. The author discusses how capitalism encourages individuality, competitiveness, and profit-maximizing, which may result in benefiting from employees, particularly women. Conversely, feminism works to uphold the liberties of oppressed groups, particularly women, and to eliminate structural inequalities.
The article goes on to look at how various feminisms have been appropriated by capitalism, giving rise to “corporate feminism” and the manipulation of feminist principles. This has led to changes that feminism is now more concerned with achieving personal success than fighting structural inequality.

Reading “Feminism and capitalism: The ideological Dilemma Of Coexistence” has taught me about the complex relationship between feminism and capitalism. It discusses how the two ideologies have good and bad outcomes that may work sometimes together. From reading this article I noticed that capitalism has historically been seen as a patriarchal system that has oppressed women by limiting their opportunities and promoting gender inequality. Many feminists have argued that capitalism needs to be reformed in order to achieve gender equality. Although some believe capitalism can be a powerful tool for women’s empowerment by creating economic opportunities for women. Capitalism makes it hard for women to succeed because there is a gender pay gap where women are paid less than men from the same work. Women being treated differently than men at jobs can make it harder for women to gain wealth and invest in their businesses, hindering their ability to succeed in a capitalist society “women are disproportionately being affected by economic oppression through forced labor, meager wages, triple burden work, lack of access to resources and opportunities”. 

I do believe that capitalism must be dismantled in order to achieve gender equality. It perpetuates gender inequality and oppression, should they think differently believing it can be reformed to prevent gender equality. We need a combination of systemic change, policy reforms, and individual actions.  Although it brought economic growth and prosperity, it has also perpetuated gender inequality and oppression. 

“Women are disproportionately being affected by economic oppression through forced labor, meager wages, triple burden of work, lack of access to resources and opportunities. As feminists, amidst this political turmoil, we cannot be naïve to believe that capitalist institutions will reimagine their oppressive structures. Instead,they will only work to strengthen their means” I feel like this will go on and on and to be honest we can fight for equality and will see progress but to my opinion we won’t be able to gain that equality just like we said last time in class about privilege, we do have the privilege to be where we are right now, but on the other side of the world women do live the same as being considered as weak and not being able to work and but just get married and take care of the house, because of culture. Which is very sad that some people still living in those conditions 

The article “Feminism and Capitalism: The ideological Dilemma Of Coexistence” talks about how feminism within oppression and capitalism and economic power is represented. This article explains very clearly how economic oppression and capitalisms play a huge part in women and gender. To exemplify, I didn’t really understand what capitalism was. Still, the way the author explained it here made me realize and be more comfortable with understanding what capitalism was like “Capitalism as an economic system is understood to be inherently exploitative and oppressive, especially with regard to the power asymmetry between the owner of the factors of production and the individuals who sell their labor.“.They use this information to describe better how capitalism leads to oppression and leads to women’s labor and unequal power structure and how it’s normalized because of capitalism. The article states “Women are disproportionately being affected by economic oppression through forced labor, meager wages, the triple burden of work, and lack of access to resources and opportunities”.These structures end up being so normalized that, that is why there is a lot of feminism because we want to change that in today’s society because we want more control than being controlled in an unequal way. The article “Feminism and Capitalism: The ideological Dilemma of Coexistence” gave a clear view of capitalism within women and gender within equity and inequality and how economic power can have a huge impact in today’s society and how women and many feminist changes the ways we are being treated for the better of our society and economy.

In the reading Feminism And Capitalism: The Ideological Dilemma Of Coexistence and In the youtube video it tells or informs us that Feminism is a socio-economic and political ideology that advocates for equal opportunities for all in a systemically unequal world meaning that its a ideology that always stands with or on the side of equal rights. It is rooted in the principles of diverse representation, which implies that individuals have unique identities, experiences, knowledge and strengths. Capitalism promotes individualism over collective action, which further exacerbates sexism, casteism, ableism and racism. Women are disproportionately affected by economic oppression through forced labor, meager wages, triple burden of work, lack of access to resources and opportunities. Gender mainstreaming is a transformative approach that can bring about paradigm shifts in our socio-political-economic structures and contribute to the gender dividend. Imbalance between the owner of the factors of production and the individuals who sell their labor is amplified when a woman is paid a wage that significantly undermines the value contribution made by her. Gender mainstreaming is a change and also different approach which has immense potential in challenging the status quo and skewed resource allocation. The World Economic Forum released its annual Gender Gap Report 2021 on March 31st, which is ironically also the women’s history month. The gender gap in the labor market has remained the same since 1995, and women are disproportionately affected by economic oppression through forced labor, meager wages, triple burden of work, lack of access to resources and opportunities. This from what I can understand from both reading Feminism And Capitalism: The Ideological Dilemma Of Coexistence and the youtube video as well because it shows us feminism and capitalism being able to go beyond by showing us there is knowledge about.

“Capitalism structurally oppresses, restricts and inhibits the access of marginalized individuals, minority communities, and differently-abled persons by regulating the opportunities available to them.” This was the most powerful statement in my opinion in the entire reading for many reasons. It ties into the lack of opportunities some have while others are given more opportunities in life. I think the opportunities one is given are how their life outcome will be. Some of the richest people in the world are well-known white families who have been in power for a long time. Their generational wealth has been around for years which made it easier on their children. The minority communities are dominantly middle-class or low-class the opportunities are slimmer than none. A lot of us have to choose between our education and working in order to survive. I can say personally I choose to work and now that I’m more financially stable I have taken up the opportunity to come back to school. My generation now we are all trying to establish businesses so we can create a generational worth.

This reading helps understand that patriarchy and capitalism are tied to keep women at the bottom.

“Patriarchy and capitalism are intricately linked at the core. Commodification of women’s labour is at its peak courtesy the unequal power structures normalised by capitalism.”

Though capitalism is the very obvious notion that rich are above and in powers, it connects that men already have the upper hand in power and power=money.