The video "BlogHer '14 Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Feminism & the Internet," discusses the discrimination towards all sorts of demographics also known as intersectionality. Intersectionality is the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. The women in the video all have different backgrounds and are affected by intersectionality in one way or another. There was a woman who was part of LGBT. There were women of different races who not only get discriminated by their gender but also their race.

The video helped me to get a better understanding of how unfairly people are treated in their lives because they were born a certain way or have a different lifestyle than what one would expect. The women in the video fight for the demographics they belong to. One thing that really stood out to me was that all the women in the video used social media to convey their message to the world. I understand that social media is used to pass on information to the masses, but in doing so one risks the chance of being ridiculed by those who don’t believe in what the person has to say. One of the women in the video, Feminista Jones, said she receives thousands of threats from her blogs and goes by an alias.

The most important message I took from the video was that social media does as much harm as it does good for people who try to use it to reach the masses to present the problems they are experiencing and how others can relate and overcome those issues. The internet is full of people who troll and attack others based on their beliefs and their way of life. People will say anything and attack any body while they hide behind their keyboards not taking any responsibility for their actions. No matter how hard someone tries to pass on their problems and help others there will be people who will attack and criticize them just because they can.

This video relates to our readings in that they both talk about intersectionality as well as how people from all sorts of backgrounds, not just women, are treated poorly and at times treated as if they are not a normal person or not as a person at all.