1. Why are there different rules for men and women in terms of sexual behavior?
1.1. Is this true for all people?
1.1.1. This only seems true in American's society.
1.1.2. "[Native American] women often enjoyed great freedom to select who would be their sexual partner." (D'Emilio & Freedman, 1997)
1.2. Is this equality?
1.2.1. NO
1.2.1.1. Men are able to express themselves sexually
1.2.1.2. Women are looked down apon for expressing themselves sexually
2. How did these rules developed?
2.1. Colonial:
2.1.1. "Other cultures, however, did not permit sexual relationships outside of the marriage. Couples who were not able to stay in a marriage often simply ended the relationship with very little resentmeant, often entering another relationship after the separation." (D'Emilio & Freedman, 1997)
2.1.2. "Prostitution did not occur among Native populations, with rape hardly ever occuring until after contact with Europeans."
2.1.3. "Europeans mistook seminudity for lewdness." (Elkins)
2.1.4. "one of the most prevenlent images of black women in antebellum America was of a person governed almost entirely by her libido, a Jezebel character." (White)
2.2. Victorian:
2.2.1. "If the hussy stood up for judgement before us five, that are now here in a knot together, would she come off with such a sentence as the worshipful magistrates have awarde? Marry, I trow not" (Hawthorne)
2.2.2. "is there no virtue in woman, save what springs from wholesome fear of the gallows?" (Hawthorne)
2.2.3. Women frowned apon other women (slut shaming)
2.2.4. EWWWW PUBLIC AFFECTION!
2.3. 1920s:
2.3.1. "Theorectically a 'nice' single women has no sex life. What nonsense! She has a better sex life than most of her married friends" (Sex and the Single girl)
2.3.2. Birth control was a way to control the population...
2.3.3. Flippers
2.4. 1950s:
2.4.1. "American society gave boys greater permission to pursue sexual contact, but women who engage in sexual acts lost social standing and became less attractive to boys as long-term partners" (Dr. Phillips)
2.4.2. Women didn't want to be wives any more
2.4.2.1. Tired of making babies
2.4.2.2. Tired of take care of everyone without haveing value
2.5. 1960s-Present:
2.5.1. Police officer says, "Avoid dressing like sluts." (Huffington Post)
2.5.1.1. Slut walks are to discourage the word "slut"
2.5.1.2. This word makes people think rape is okay if they're a "slut"
2.5.2. "Tropicalism"
2.5.3. American society is "acceptable" of how open people's sexuality is, but still judge and show prejudgice towards people.
3. What does that mean for us tooday?
3.1. Where are we now?
3.1.1. Unequal
3.1.2. "The uniqueness of the African-American female's situation is that she stands at the crossroads of two of the most well-developed ideologies in America,"
3.1.3. When an 11-year-old is raped, it's noted that she "dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a women in her 20s,"
3.1.3.1. Why was that comment necessary?
3.1.3.2. This makes it justifiable for her to be raped?
3.2. What should we do?
3.2.1. MIND OUR OWN BUSINESS
3.2.2. Respect other people's opinions & actions.
3.2.3. Sympathize & Empatize with people.
3.3. Who is "we"?
3.3.1. Anyone
3.3.2. Everyone