Chapter 1: Sexual Violence as Genocide

 This chapter is about colonization and colonizers use of sexual violence to aid the genocide that came along with the colonization. When you think about when Europeans came to America they obviously used sexual violence as a big part in taking the land and making it their home. I think this chapter helps aid the fact that when there is sexual violence involve in a thing such as genocide and colonization, it lowers what the people ,that are being taken advantage of, think of themselves. This chapter helps with the understanding how sexual violence is such a big emotional blow.

I am going to talk about my quotes and use them as my key points. The quote, "The racist belief was that white women needed to be protected from predatory black men, when in fact, black women needed protection from white men." Black men were lynched and victimized because of the belief that they were out to rape the white women. If a black man did have sex with a white women and someone found out, most likely to save her own ass she would cry rape. Now niggas was getting killed over the fact that white men were scared of black men raping their women when the fact of the matter is, was that the white men were the ones that were raping anyone. When Whites would lynch blacks they would a lot  the time mutilate the bodies of the black people being lynched including cutting off their genitals. Ida B. Wells did a study and said approximately 10000 people had been lynched. During the same time period no white person was lynched for raping or killing a black person. Now they cant say it didn't happen cause it did. The next quote is, "The ideology as native women's bodies as rapable is evident in the hundreds of missing indigenous women in Mexico and Canada." This quote says so much about how native women are viewed. It goes on to share facts like since 1993, over 500 women have been murdered in Juarez, Mexico. A majority of them were sexually mutilated and raped and tortured, having their nipples cut off. This shows that their bodies are only looked at for the thoughts of pleasure and in a sexual way. This act of sexual violence is so crude and crazy. This chapter showed me that violence comes in many ways and when it comes through sexual violence there is a lot of problems for those involved. The victims have to live with themselves after being taken to the lowest of lows. Thanks to this chapter I have an understanding of sexual violence.

Introduction: Andre Smith

The introduction does exactly what the title says it does. It introduces and talks about what each of the next chapters will be about. All the chapter have something to do with violence of some sort ranging from sexual violence to an anti violence strategy. It touches on a little from every chapter.

Some key points would have to be how she says that rape encompasses a wide range of strategies not designed to not only destroy peoples but to destroy their sense of being. That is a great point because once you are a victim of sexual violence you are changed. You become someone who you never was before. Also the fact that with genocide comes sexual violence, is great because thinking of all the genocides I can, I can remember that rape has almost always occurred.

"I argue that sexual violence is a tool by which certain peoples become marked as inherently 'rapable'." This quote carries so much because I have never thought of it is a way to mark someone as "rapable". I would some people are more vulnerable, but "rapable" is a new way of looking at it. I do agree that combined with sexual violence you can become a person maybe more susceptible to another act of violence.

Many tender Cries chapter 1

I am behind so yea. here is my blog that was suppossed to be done awhile ago. But the intro was about the fur trade industry began and was run in western canada. A big part of the intro was when it discussed what indiam women had to gain by marrying a fur trader. The would be treated better and as equals. Chapter one talks about how the indiam women eventually were not teated well. They were not doing feminine jobs and were doing jobs as if they were men. It also talks how they became more of a sex object rather than looked at like a women.

native american women class

i think i am doing this right not sure though. i will post this and see!