Patriarchal Tendencies

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There are many things that can be thought about as a reading response: Power, Sexuality, Oppressions, Patriarchal Tendencies, and many other topics relevant to the overall themes. What I will talk about is a racism issue, as I didn't see many historical documentations or essays regarding people of color, PoC, in the readings. As interesting as it was to read about intersex experiences, male sexual transgressions, and rape and power, the lack of information regarding PoC was not as much surprising but disheartening. In fact, other than the New York Times article about intersex women in athletics, the majority of the articles only discussed PoC in regards to their punishment whenever the law was brought up. I realize the people who recorded history, especially in regards to Euro-Centric cultures, tend to focus on white people but the fact that the mentions of PoC was only to direct attention towards the violence of them perturbed me. The only instance where I found a light in the proverbial tunnel of this white-centered historical documentation was a …show more content…

The stigma, even throughout historical documents, that women could not hurt others because they lacked a penis is asinine. This lead to men raping women, including their own daughters, with little repercussions. But it was only white men who received little repercussions. White men could rape their daughters and no one would punish them for their misdeeds, but when a PoC was accused of the crime with no evidence, he was severely punished. I do not recall reading about the differences of white men and men of color who committed sodomy, if there were any differences listed, but white men who committed sodomy did not experience severe consequences very often. I wonder how men of color faced sodomy repercussions, after realizing that it was likely not touched upon in the

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