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So in essence I am not sure I agree with Roxane’s concept of a Bad Feminist. To me you are only a Bad Feminist if you are pretending to be a good feminist while actively trying to undermine the movement. However, I do see the point she is trying to make. Which is, we need to stop thinking that feminist have to be a what society perceives as perfect feminist in every single aspect of life.

Racialized Medicine can be seen how racism creeps into medicine! Throughout the ages, culture as much as science and medicine has shaped the medical field. Genetics has ended a time where the idea of race is a biologically concept rather than a socially concept. There are race-based medicines, but they are driven by market incentives, not scientific evidence. The use of race in medicine and health disparities caused by racism and social injustice are to be told that they cast as a mere function of genetic difference.

Black women in the 1920's wanted individual over their fertility. The decline of in the fertility rates of African American women, contributions to the birth control and abortion movements in the US have been obscured by racist and sexists assumptions about African-American women, their sexuality and fertility. As us African-American women demand control over our bodies, we need to think about how racism, sexism, homophobia and economic oppression affect us. Having control over our bodies also means having access to the same resources as others without the limits of race, income, class, or sexuality. Black women have placed reproductive health issues in a historical context that makes the reproductive freedom movement relevant to the ongoing struggle against racism and poverty.

Crenshaw begins her groundbreaking article by the recent developments in political organizations. She also used data from a field study at battered women shelters to understand structural intersectionalities.  She seeks to support and protect women. In this article, it conveyed the various ways in which gender and race intersect in shaping the structural, political, and the representational aspects of violence against women of color. The rape and battering to discuss how gender and race intersects in the lives of women of color. Crenshaw expresses  Intersectionality provides the opportunity to reconceptualize race as a coalition of men and women of color. Also, the perspective on  Intersectionality will help people raise their voices against  internal exclusion and marginalization.

Adichie believed that a great disservice to both men and women by teaching them to conform to street gender roles

The expression of masculinity and femininity simply is just a social construct. What a man or woman wears, talks, color they like, sports they play, or whether their hair is long or short. These are all made up by society and it is how we naturally conform to our gender. Women tend to lose out on job opportunities simply because they are deemed as too emotional or just not strong enough for job. Men are looked down on by other men simply because they are interested in dominated woman roles such as nurses. The way society sets these standards and how we are suppose to conform to them are so very wrong , but it was never explained why we must conform and if we don't we are automatically judged or disowned? What I always say is : PEOPLE JUDGE WHAT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND

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