Living in a world that is just black and white I never thought that I would be open to walking in the gray area. The readings this week really opened my mind to new thoughts. Not about who I am as a person, but allowing me an opportunity to learn something new. Now am I understanding everything that I’m reading and coming across absolutely not. However, I’m willing to take this ride in order to learn. The Prism of Gender written by Catherine Valentine started out by stating that “We are taught that a real woman is female -bodied, feminine, and heterosexual; a real man is male -bodied, masculine, and heterosexual; and any deviation is strange, unnatural, and potentially dangerous (pg.3). Now I’m not going to lie I was taught these things for a early age and I still live by this. However, I believe now as an adult that you are who you are and can love who you want and be whatever you want to be in live because that’s your business. Besides who am I to judge. Valentine goes further but stating that it just a United States thing where people are extremely critical and judgement about gender. In all honesty in the first page of the text I agreed with everything because become a former nursing student you view gender in biological terms because that is what you’re taught. I didn’t understand the sociological radar concept, and I never thought that I do gender on a daily basis. So on to the reading Theorizing Differences in Multiracial Feminism, this text pulled on how women of color are treated and discriminated against. Women of color have more to prove and fight for because in so many cases they’re overlooked. This quote in the text stood out to me, “Speaking simultaneously from “within and against” both women’s liberation and antiracist movement, we have insisted on the need to challenge the system of domination, not merely as gendered subjects but as women whose lives are affected by our location in multiple hierarchies. (pg. 321). The reason that this statement stood out to me is because women of color have always had to stand up and fight for the things that they want and believe in. As a woman of color this resonated with me. The main argument between the two text for me is equality. Everyone wants to be treated with respect and fairly without judgement or consequence.