Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (Intro & Ch.1) & Changing Ones Ch 1. & 2.

Intro
In the intro the reader is introduced to the how sexual violence is way and goal of colonialism. I made notes in the margin asking is that the only way? Did people believe that in order to penetrate and change and culture you go directly for the women first? I am not sure how much I understand that concept. Later on it is said that it would stop women from having that desire to reproduce I guess it would supress it slightly, but that notion is ignorant all together.

Ch. 1
Chapter 1 begins with Rape being patriarchal control and that it "undergirds the philosophy of the white-dominated women's antiviolence movement"

Changing Ones
I can honestly say that I never even heard of the Berache men that identify themselves as two-spirited, but really they would be considered as gay or trans. I know this is completely stereotypical of me, but you only see Native men as stoic- but it was interesting because they wore they women's clothing, and did "gendered" activities like whatever was considered women's work, but tI think the most interesting thing was that sex waith a berdache was a source of power. I would have just imagined that these men would be shunned or considered taboo in the culture, but yet they were accepeted. is this because they were called "two spirted"?..... just some thoughts...