LAW 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sexual Assault, Transphobia, Patrilineality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Law and Business
• Course: LAW 122
• Professor: Reese Simpkins

Document Summary

Different types of humans have different capabilities. Non-europeans races= not quite human: rampant sexuality. Non-white cultures need discipline, civilization and salvation. Non-whites lack rationality, are more animal than human, have animalistic sexual appetites. Sex/gender and sexuality = primary mechanisms of colonialism: sexual assault, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are entangled with the history of colonialism. Colonial assumption= heterogendered norms indicative of superiority: berdache = offensive term. 2 aspects of colonization: tangible aspects land theft, forced movement, intangible aspects imposition of certain ideas. But these are tangibly enforced through physical brutality. Most indigenous people now organize their lives according to western sex/gender and sexuality norms: may even inaccurately believe their cultures to originally be patriarchal and patrilineal. Aboriginal women: denied leadership positions within communities and organizations, excluded from high level negotiations, both aboriginal men and nonaborignal high level politicians have colluded in excluding aboriginal women from governance.