Don T Believe Everything You Think Analysis

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In this reflection paper I will reflect on how the GWS motto “don’t believe everything you think” can be applied to the reading Claiming an education by Adrienne Rich, Feminist Politics by Bell Hooks, and the movie Miss Representation, and what I found interesting/helpful.
To start off, Feminist Politics applies to the motto “don’t believe everything you think” by the author Bell Hooks correcting the misunderstanding of the word feminism that is misunderstood by most people as anti-male and male domination through patriarchal society mass media by women who are committed to gender equality. Hooks gives her definition of feminism: movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. Which is a simple understanding that the problem is sexism and not just trying to be as equal as man Prior to the reading I have always thought that most girls that are feminist just meat that they disliked male and the patriarchy society we live in, but after reading I gained a better understanding of feminism that Hooks explains it as a movement to end sexist oppression. what I
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The motto “don’t believe everything you think” applies to Rich’s speech of how women are in school to claim an education and not just receiving Rich goes on by saying “The difference is that between acting and being acted-upon, and for women it can literally mean the difference between life and death.” In the speech Rich talks about the exclusion women might face in an academic community by seeing very few women in upper levels of faculty and administration in most schools. In the speech Rich encourages the women to work harder and claim their education by taking responsibility and demand to be taken seriously even though the educational system according to Rich is based on male knowledge and