Video and Violence

I really enjoyed the video that we watched in class because it puts the issues of rape into a different perspective. Instead of looking only at how the victim reacts to rape, the video also addresses the actions of the rapist, but in a funny way. Videos like this can really help people who have been victims of rape because it lets them see that they can tell people about the things that have happened to them, like the character in the video we saw. One of the types of violence that is addressed in the video is cultural violence, where a person's cultural background influences their susceptibility to violence. The video features a hispanic woman who discusses how she gets raped by her boyfriend, and won't do anything about it. The video shows that hispanic women are stereotypically weak and won't tell anyone about it if they get raped. I also thought that this discussion was a good supplement to our reading of Kindred.