Pre-reading Questions Week 7

• I think we study intersectionality and domestic violence because of the myths that they're not real in the society. For example, most people believe that only whites have structural privilege, while we don't see that in every aspect of our lives we have an advantage and a disadvantage. In my last blog about intersectionaly theory, I found that I have an advantage for being able, educated, and middle class, but because my race is Filipino and my gender is women then I have a disadvantage for those categories. I thought domestic violence is only seen physically and emotionally but because of the article that I read about "What is Domestic Violence?", I learned that domestic violence can happen sexually and pyschologically. Domestic violence can happen through race by human trafficking. For example, the one given in the article is that the boss would force slavery or threatening the employee and for class I think it's the same for the boss to maintain his power over his/her employees. Domestic violence by language can be emotional abuse like making fun of a person's accent or pronunciation. Domestic violence by gender can be sexual abuse in order to maintain their power over their intimate sexual partner. 
• I've never experienced domestic violence in my whole entire life. But my suggestion about the solution for people in domestic violence is get out of the relationship as soon as possible and get some help to a specialist because by experiencing domestic violence, people can get emotionally abuse and psychologically abuse. I think this is possible for most of the survivors of domestic violence but for some I think it's impossible because they might feel that people around them can judge them and not help them to recover from such violent act. I don't really know what other alternatives that the oppressed can do because I've never experienced it and most of my friends and family never experienced domestic violence.
• Violence Against Women Act is a law signed by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994 and it is a law that "provided $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed civil redress in cases prosecutors chose to leave unprosecuted" based in wikipedia resource. Their objective is "to develop and implement law enforcement to combat violent crimes against women" based on policeone.com. 
• It's important to look at intersectional qualities when discussing domestic violence because they have similarities. With domestic violence we can look at different spheres like gender, race, and class just to maintain power. Same with intersectionalilty, it makes you look at different spheres when it comes to having advantages and disadvantages. 

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