This weeks readings made me really think about women and how all over the globe women are being silenced. I didn't really dwell on why issues that faced women were not really at the forefront of many political agendas but to realize they are not on any agenda not even nationally was really eye opening. The other reading about Supremacy Crimes ties into the ideas of rape and sexual violence because these issues are all about dominance and especially male dominance. In "Whom do we Take Seriously" Enloe talks about full scale rape as a tactic of war and domestic violence and why that is not on the list as important international codes of human rights. These issues cross all boundaries because so many people are affected by them. Crimes against women are not trivial but important because they are tied in to the very fabric of society. The Steinem article addresses the fact that white heterosexual males of higher economic status are often the ones killing and murdering but no one is reveiling what the underlying issue is. As Steinem suggests we need to change the way we are nurturing boys and let them know that expressing emotion is not feminine but apart of life and allows you to be a whole person and not just this narrow view of what a man should be. I went to a speaker this week that talked about this very notion and getting away from this stereotype "man" and allowing men to know that expressing emotion such as sadness is okay because often it is better than the anger that comes through when men turn there emotion inward.
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