The lines in “Why Nice Guys Finish Last” by Julia Serano that stood out to me is “Similarly, if a male high school teacher were to have sex with one of his female teenage students, we would all be appalled. The incident would clearly feel like statutory rape to us. However, when the roles are reversed — when the adult teacher is female and the teenage student is male — it generally feels like a completely different thing to us.” People in this society would think that the male would try to get on the female but not when the roles reversed. They would think it is okay that the female teacher have sex with the male student because it is a female teacher. In the male teacher situation it would be seen as rape even if the person consented to it.
The lines in “Bad Feminist” by Roxane Gay that stood out to me were “I sometimes cringe when someone refers to me as a feminist, as if I should be ashamed of my feminism or as if the word feminist is an insult.” People often see the word feminist as an insult but I see feminist as trying to be equal like everyone else. People use it as offense like “Your a feminist,” but I think feminist just want things to be fair for females and males as in everyone gets treated the same.