It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a p...oor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is... woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing p...olitical mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn o...n those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is difficult to generalize why so many Latino/as moved toward conservative ... views.... for many, I believe it is basically a ...matter of desiring material acquisitions. It is difficult to maintain a collective ideology in a society where possessions and power-status equal self-worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when t...he Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have more in common with a Mexican man than with a white woman.... This opinion ... chagrins women who sincerely believe our fem...ale physiology unequivocally binds all women throughout the world, despite the compounded social prejudices that daily affect us all in different ways. Although women everywhere experience life differently from men everywhere, white women are members of a race that has proclaimed itself globally superior for hundreds of years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic Ameri...ndians/mestizas are the dark. We are the evil ... or at least, the questionable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »