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I agree with abratchi.The Chicanas were vehemently fighting for control over their own bodies, but isn't that what every woman wants, regardless of race or class? --Anna Holman | I agree with abratchi.The Chicanas were vehemently fighting for control over their own bodies, but isn't that what every woman wants, regardless of race or class? --Anna Holman | ||
| + | I agree, but I think it can be extended further than just what every WOMAN wants, and can be broadened to include men as well. No one wants to feel as if they have no control over thier own bodies or life and when that personal sense of control is taken away is when people revolt against their oppressor. --jmarshal | ||
Vidal’s point about Chicanas facing triple discrimination is important, because '''discrimination is never a simple cut and dry thing.''' If you solve the problem of class, that does not solve the problems of gender or race or sexuality. I think this is what made, and still makes, the push for equal rights so difficult. '''How does one choose what one focuses on in the fight?''' In the Hispanic community, Chicanas were told by Chicano leaders not to join the women’s liberation movement because “it is an ‘Anglo thing’” (455). Chicanas recognized that women’s liberation was not just for middle class white women, it was for them too. The men in the community were not offering much support, so Vidal, by connecting “machismo” to Anglo chauvinism, compares Chicanos to white males, and I’m sure that Hispanic men did not want to be connected with the very people they were fighting against. – Alice W | Vidal’s point about Chicanas facing triple discrimination is important, because '''discrimination is never a simple cut and dry thing.''' If you solve the problem of class, that does not solve the problems of gender or race or sexuality. I think this is what made, and still makes, the push for equal rights so difficult. '''How does one choose what one focuses on in the fight?''' In the Hispanic community, Chicanas were told by Chicano leaders not to join the women’s liberation movement because “it is an ‘Anglo thing’” (455). Chicanas recognized that women’s liberation was not just for middle class white women, it was for them too. The men in the community were not offering much support, so Vidal, by connecting “machismo” to Anglo chauvinism, compares Chicanos to white males, and I’m sure that Hispanic men did not want to be connected with the very people they were fighting against. – Alice W | ||
