1. Gay shows that essential feminism doesn’t let people be individuals when Gay talks about how to fit into essential feminism you have to follow a specific kind of way of doing it which is where a lot of stereotypes come from. Also Gay states that it is a discourse which is very specific to the criteria of action.

3. Gay shows how the equaility movement to make men and women equal is put on the shoulders of all feminism when she talks about how it takes a lot of people to fight a movement and if you are you have a lot of responsibility when you do it because it a very important fight that is taking place.