Stereotypes present an incomplete, subjective and sometimes false image of reality. They are often based on tradition and are resistant to change. Although they can both have positive and negative overtones. Roxane Gay’s “Bad Feminist” Gay examines her own identity as a feminist in the context of cultural expectations and categorizations, or, as she likes to call it, the “myth” of essential feminism. Gay mentions in her collection of essays that feminism "does not take into account the complexities of human experience or individuality." the arms, legs, armpits, etc., which is not all true, perhaps some feminists can be what we all assume but not all. Women should be able to believe in women's rights but also be able to marry, have children, dress like a girl or shave their legs and not feel obligated to hate all those beliefs. Gay claims she does/wants all those things, but doing so would make her a “bad feminist.” Looking beyond essential feminist “guidelines,” Gay concludes that she “would rather be a bad feminist than not be a feminist at all.” However, many social institutions are based on the assumption of stereotypes with which they are well known