sorry i'm late, two tests this week
I haven't finished reading Kartini's letters yet, but i think one thing from teh forward was really interesting. On ix she addresses the "pain of being an object". This is an issue that Is continuously dealt with by women of color still, everyday with stereotypes of animalism/hypersexualism/exotic is erotic, I can't believe we haven't moved past this. A hundred years ago she feels the same way many do now. I lived in Hawaii last year, and it's really surprising how guys from the mainland will go there with a fantasy of what island girls are like and to try to sleep with as many as they can. They say repulsive things about it (but i do understand that they surely say repulsive things about all women, not just teh hawaiian ones) It almost reminds me of that movie about pocahontas, the new world. Its like, "she is so beautiful and exotic that she isnt really a person like me"