In the essay “Feminist Politics Where We Stand” by Bell Hooks. Hook explains the definition of feminism as “A movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.” What it means to me is to understand sexism and to erase sexism from the world, not that men are an enemy. Throughout history, women have to fight for equality, women weren’t allowed to work or vote but instead get married to a man; be a housewife; make kids. It was like a cycle that would never end, so it was time for women to make a change. What people believe the definition of feminism is “anti-male.” In reality, the true definition of feminism is having equal rights for men and women in the household, society, and workplace. According to the essay on pg 3, hook explains that males are not the only group in our society who support sexist thinking and behavior but women as well. “Males were not the only group in our society who supported sexist thinking and behavior – that females could be sexist as well – anti-male sentiment no longer shaped the movement’s consciousness.” This is true because in social media and everywhere you look, they’re women that is not only being sexist males but sexist to women, for example, a woman can go up to another woman telling them to get out of the beach or pool because their bikini is shown too much skin. Another part of the essay I would like to discuss is bell hook explaining the quote when it comes to white women and black people colliding to end sexism and patriarchy. On pg 4 she states that “It made sense that white men were more willing to consider women’s rights when the granting of those rights could serve the interests of maintaining white supremacy. We can never forget that white women began to assert their need for freedom for civil rights, just at the point when racial discrimination was ending and black people, especially black males might have attained equality in the workforce with white men.” This quote means that not only white women are fighting for feminism, but black people as well, they want equal rights when it comes to their workplace & Society. This describes in what bell hooks were talking about feminism is for everybody no matter if you’re a male or a female, the meaning behind feminism is to stop sexism and have equal rights for everyone. Before reading the article “Gender & Sex 101” I thought that Gender is a characteristic of a male or female. There are people who identify as nonbinary using pronouns like they/them. Sometimes there are people who don’t believe they are the gender they were assigned at birth. When reading this article explains the definition of Gender and gender assignment, meaning that “a person is categorized as either masculine gender (boy/man) or feminine gender (woman/girl) based on their external genitalia.” When reading the gender assignment category I thought about the world today and how people believe masculinity and femininity in gender can be opposite, for example, a woman can be masculine and a male can be feminine it doesn’t always have to be a woman can be feminine and a male can be masculine. What confuses me about reading this article is the meaning of intersex. Lastly, what the article discusses is that in America boys are supposed to be tough, like cars and guns, girls, and dress “manly” whereas girls they’re supposed to be clean, weak, and emotional. My thoughts about it are that this has been going on for decades and people believe that it doesn’t matter if you have a feminine side and you’re a male you’re still human that deserves to be treated with respect. In the end, it can be frustrating how society will treat you when you’re expressing yourselves with the stereotypes of gender.