Native American Women Vs Disabled Women

1. Native American women and disabled women have been robbed of their autonomy for centuries. Women in all cultures are treated a second class to men even in current times complete gender equality has not been achieved. Historically the dehumanization used to treat women as if they are property or objects has greatly affected women of color and disabled women more so than other demographics. The comparison of Native American women and disabled women to beast and animals dehumanized them to the point of justification of rape and to this day still leaves them as open target for abuse and assault.
2. Cases in which rape wasn’t treated as a violation are cases when that woman was considered “property” husband and slave owners raped and abused their wives and female slaves without punishment or shame because women especially women of color were seen more a objects to be owned rather than actual people. In some societies modernly many lgbtq+ women and non-binary people are victims “corrective” rapes in which the rapist believe that they by assaulting these women they can change or “correct” their orientation or gender identity often times these assaults go without justice.
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The three types of abuse from the power wheel I want to discuss are:
A. Minimizing, denying, and blaming, A process that can include things such a gas lighting, where in the abuser attest that their victim is being dramatic or telling them that it’s their fault that the victim is also at fault for the abuse somehow based on their actions. Abusers will sometimes also flat out deny the notion of their actions as abuse or attest that the abuse never happened at
all.
B. Isolation, with isolation the abuser cuts off or control all outside contact the victims ha with family and friends who would otherwise serve as a support system and possibly intervene in their relationship.
C. Economic abuse similar to isolation in the way that it limits the victim’s ability to escape the abusive relationship. The prevention of economic independence makes the victim wholly dependent upon their abuser.
4. I agree with Jackson Katz’s about domestic violence and violence against women and children not only being a woman’s issue but a man’s issue as well especially since a majority of the time the perpetrator of that violence are men. Katz’s makes a point to state that by being silent even if you disagree with the perpetrator and think their actions or words to be wrong you are taking the side of the perpetrator. We as a culture need to stop being complacent and dismissive of misconducts because we think they don’t affect us directly.