Kindred Esaay

PWA:Kindred

        Have you noticed that our society is not equal ? In the book, Kindred, Dana transfers back to time and she’s a slave, she cuts herself just to go back home. Dana helps many slaves escape but she’s the only one that can’t she gets whipped and screamed at. During this time period black people were slaves the women got raped by their masters and black men were put in the field to work mostly the whole day without a break and without getting payed. Octavia Butler was a woman who wrote this book to let people know that slavery and hegemony between men and women are still things that go on today. She wanted everyone to have the same rights and be equal no matter if you are a woman or man or because of your race or background. Imagine if you are treated with discrimination against your race you wouldn’t want that so why do that to other people.

        First of all, our society still believe in sex-roles which according to men sex role they are aggressive, rational, dominant, and objective or “powerful” only because women didn’t have the right to vote back then it don’t mean men can get more rights than women. Most of the people say men are stronger than women but it’s not true women are humans they deserve the same rights as men. Women are passive, intuitive, submissive, and subjective. Even though people say women are weak they are wrong are smart, emotional, thoughtful, and ect. “So you’ll be rid of the man and have possession of the woman just as you wanted,” Dana said with disgust. “Rape rewarded.”(Pg.124)  This quote means that man used to take possession of slave women. This reminds me of history class because we learned of how slavery affects our society.

        Second of all, hegemony between men & women affects our society by the “sex-roles” that still go on today. But women get oppressed more in our society, men decided if women worked out the house or if they have freedom to do anything like for example, women didn’t have the right to vote. But women worked hard to get equal rights. “Issac and Alice had four days of freedom together and the 5th day they were caught and on the 7th day Dana found out about it.” (pg.143) This quote means that Issac and Alice escaped to have freedom but then their “owners” found out and caught them and took them back. This quote reminds me of how Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape to freedom by the Underground Railroad.

        Well like hegemony between men & women still go on today there’s ways that we can help to stop this unfair “sex-roles” that can go on like in the amendment says that all men should be created equal. But god said all humans had to be equal but this is what causes hate in some men & women. That’s why we have to take choices that will give people a message of how this hegemony is affecting us & our community. “She had the right to say no... We’ll see about her rights!” Rufus said (pg.123) This quote means that Rufus didn’t give Dana rights, unless he order her to do something. This quote reminds me of the movie we watched in history class of how slaves got treated and how they got desperate and took the choice to kill their “masters”.

        In conclusion, this are the ways there is hegemony between men & women. This is how mostly women suffered because of how men took their freedom away and how they took possession of women in many ways. So people don’t listen to any oppression stuff because then you will internalize it and say is true but it’s not !!!