In the text, “The Sexual Assault Epidemic That No One Is Talking About” by Aviva Stahl, the author is telling stories about Iffat and the multiple assaults they encountered being a Muslim woman wearing a Hijab in public. In the text it says, “Across Europe and other parts of the Global North, research gas consistently shown that women are the primary victims of the Islamophobic discrimination as well as violent attacks.”(331) Women are often viewed as weak and unlikely to fight back which makes them the primary victim of a hate crime like this. This is one example of how our social world categorizes people as essential types. In relation to “Bad Feminist” by Roxane Gay, the author explains how feminists are categorized into these specific groups that people are often afraid to admit to being a feminist due to how people may react. As for being a woman when you neglect one of the traits that make you a good woman, you are frowned and looked down upon. “Women who don’t adhere to these standards are the fallen, the undesirable. They are bad women.” Women are categorized based on which type of women you are, weather you are a feminist or if you follow the standards of being a woman. Our social world would be a better place if we were able to avoid essential categories. For example, In the text ” Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii”, Velasquez-Manoff explains how the students from the mainland were already looking at race a different way once they got to Hawaii. “… Many of them lost essentialist ideas that characterized their thinking about race when they’d just arrived.” Since Hawaii has the highest percentage of mixed-race people, these students being in a diverse environment they transitioned thoughts about race. Since Hawaii is largely diverse people have more understanding of race which leads to a different way of categorizing, since they have a better understanding of race, they are able to identify different ancestor backgrounds within people. With these three readings showing examples of categories of essential types, if we were to think more complexly about ourselves and others, we would be able to protect those essentialized categories.