ANATOMY OF A THREAT 6/STILL RECOVERING FROM YESTERDAYS RED CHERRIES/SERBIN/VAN PELT FARCE
I know better than to post when I’m that pissed off….didn’t want to have to apologize to a group misogynist men. I wanted jump through the screen and strangle all three of them! But I put on a movie and painted the horse I am working on…..
I will try to see the good, it certainly opened up a door to a room filled with a million questions about what took place the attitudes of men protecting men. Apparently Indian women are not given equal rights under Native American religion? ceremonies , spiritual leaders??? I really don’t understand what went on yesterday…I am not an Indian.
What I did get out of it is that Indian men are to be believed without condition and Indian women have to get proof from the white legal ” just us” system. Was it always that way? Woman as property or are the modern day Indian men influenced by the old colonizer attitude that women should be seen and not heard…that we are less than men.
I had read references to Indian women being treated as the lowest of beings in America and have made a few comments about it on my blog….but until yesterday I didn’t quite “get” it.
Thank you Eugene Johnson for speaking up for the young mother in question….Martha Alvarez is an incredibly strong young woman I am in awe of these Indian women. People always compliment me for being so strong. But Martha Alvarez at such a young age is braver and has more conviction at her age than I did!
This whole thing horrified me because of the threats made against a blogger; now it horrifies me to a much, much greater extent because of the blatant support of the abuse of women. The disregard of the very beings who bring forth and nurture the next generation…
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