I watched "Beyond Sex: Talk About Gender Identity in Society.

" - TedTalk and "We Should All Be

Feminists." -TedTalk. In the first TedTalk by Palis Pisuttisaran, "Beyond Sex: Talk About Gender Identity in
Society." He spoke about why gender is a box to be ticked off, how gender is on a spectrum, how your
gender does not exist, and how redefining Gender will help in future societies. Things I found most
interesting in this TedTalk were how gender is different from sex and is not a white or black concept, and
there are many nonbinary identities. Yet, something that shocked me was how Palis went on many
different popular platforms that ask for your specific gender, and only eight countries legally see the
existence of a gender that is not male or female, and 7 out of 10 people in our society believe there are
only two genders. The numbers for that are shocking, and it makes me think that this is only still true
today because we still have older generations that are unwilling to accept change. In the next TedTalk by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "We Should All Be Feminists." I learned about the Lilly Ledbetter Law, the
problem with gender, bottom power, and much more in-depth details about the Nigerian culture's view on
women. She was a very captivating woman to listen to, and I really enjoyed her TedTalk, although there
were parts that were hard to hear. She told a story about how a woman was gang raped in Nigeria. She
explained that in her country, women and men felt bad about the situation but automatically also shifted
the blame onto the females. Saying, "Yes, rape is wrong, but what is a girl doing alone in a room with four
boys." This was such an uneasy thing to hear, considering this also happens in America with questions
like "Well, why were you there in the first place? You must have thought something would happen?"
because society expects so little of men. It is heartbreaking.