#MeTooK12 is a hashtag that created by the national nonprofit Stop Sexual Assault in Schools (SSAIS.org). The reason why this campaign was made was to motivate encourages victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault by class mates or school staff to share their experiences while they attend K-12 schools.For those who do not know what K-12 schools are,K-12 is a term used in the United States of America ,Canada and some other countries to identify grades from kinder garden until before college.

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Stop Sexual Assault in Schools is a nonprofit organization that started because the daughter of the owner of this organization got sexually assaulted in a multi-day school field trip by a peer. After finding out the mother talked to the school and saw that they were not paying lot of attention to the incident. Later on, after doing some research the victim’s mother found out that the school ignored a few other rape events as well as her daughter’s.This is when the mother took the situation in her own hands and brought justice to her child.This is also when she started this campaign to bring awareness to such events.

Gender relations in aboriginal cultures were not something flat or static – they vary from culture to culture, reaching from the egalitarian to hierarchical. In almost all cases, though, the structure of society was influenced by needs of survival. Hunter gatherer societies required men and women to often perform the same tasks, thus making them egalitarian.
In many cases, even if men were the more dominant party in general societal relations – like positions of leadership – lineage was traced matrilineally. There were also cases of so-called “two-spirit” people who bent what we would consider traditional gender norms by theoretically accommodating both in one body, making both men and women interconnected.

In many ways these societies differed from traditional Western culture, which was far more masculine dominated. One could argue that the reason for this was that women did not need to perform tasks necessary for survival like they did in aboriginal cultures, but were rather representations of status, useful homemakers, or symbolic tokens in political alliance. Men asserted clear control over women and when these Westerners noticed that not to be the case amongst the aboriginals, they were often alarmed. How can they consider women their equals when male Westerners viewed themselves as superior to women? This naturally led to some cultural conflict.

Our modern culture is in many ways moving more towards what seems to have existed with the aboriginal people in that men and women can have more equal roles and equal contribution in society.  While we are still a male dominated culture, women can hold positions of power, take ownership of wealth, and demand respect. 

After reading both articles about their perspective on feminism I must say that Jessica Valenti article was more fun to read. The reason for this is because it was less informal, it was more relatable. Even though both are these articles are very similar, they both mentioned in their definition that feminism has nothing to do with being anti-men. valenti definition of feminism was the dictionary definition which is, the beliefs in the social, political, and economic quality of the sexes, an the movement organized around the belief. While Hooks definition was that feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. Feminism is important to Valenti because it gave her purpose in life, in her text she mentions how she was a suicidal tennager. That she had no meaning to her life, that was until she figured it out, it is to fight for women’s rights, to gain equality. While for Bell Hooks she mentioned that living in a peaceful world is important to her, but she also said that feminism cannot make our world peaceful. That we must also need to end racism, class elitism, and imperialism.

The difference between these two authors was that Valenti was more focused on feminism itself, trying to convince people that all these stereotypes about feminists are not true. She was focusing more on the fact that people are scared to call themselves a feminist because the do not want to be called fat, ugly, and hairy. While Hooks did speak about these stereotypes, she mostly focused on the patriarch system, and how we are oppressed. She was trying to show people the real meaning of being feminist, but as well mentioned male dominance, and how feminism is not the only thing that’s going to fix our world. As well in both these essays they talk about sisterhood, Valenti does not believe women are automatically bonded because of their ovaries. She mentioned how she met homophobic, and racist women, she does not believe that women are automatically bonded together just because they are oppressed. While Hooks mentions that the reason why sisterhood is not valid for her all the time is because how women are competitive with one another. Instead of all being happy, and excited for one another, we seem to compare, and hate on eachother. She also mentions that women should stick together, because at one point of their life they have been dominated by a male figure.

Personally while i was reading this article i did receive more knowledge about this topic, and how serious girls are about not defining themselves as a feminist. My definition of feminism is equal rights for everyone. This means not just for gender, but for those individuals who don’t like to define themselves with a gender, they deserve equal rights as well. Another thing is in Valenti article there was a part at the beginning that states the worst thing a man can be called is a girl. I never really saw it as a negative thing until i read this article. Reason for this is because i never really went deep into thought about it until her article. It is true, and very sad that still in today’s society males will avoid doing things, or wearing things just so they do not get compared to a female. They rather be called other vulgar words, but as long as they don’t get called a girl it’s alright. Which in my opinion is very messed up, because if girls get called a boy we do not feel as if it’s the worst insult to get. This got me thinking that men must really pity us for being females, since they can’t even stand being called a girl, or someone telling them they’re acting like a girl.