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I am extremely gratified that the one person who agreed with me was a fellow Latino. And I’m not the slightest bit surprised that so many Anglos cherish these stereotypes so much – they do fall apart at a challenge to them.

Don: I already gave evidence to back up what I said. But you chose to ignore the words in front of you. Once again, the book’s name is The Meaning of Macho, and it was written by an Anglo male anthropologist. Go tell HIM these ridiculous claims of yours that he is ‘anti Anglo’.

Katie: Nowhere in my post did I defend harassment. And I have cousins and nieces who are teens and younger, and you know what? They don’t fall apart at harassment. If you had the same self-confidence that my 11-year-old niece and teenaged cousins do, you wouldn’t get as much sh*t from those fools.

Jay: You truly must be kidding if you think I will buy your utterly racist view of Latin America. Just because you might know of a few women’s rights groups that buy into those racist lies doesn’t mean squat. The feminist movement has never gotten very far among either Latinas or in Latin American precisely because of smug, superior and downright racist sterotypes like you fall for.

For the record, most of Latin America’s congresses have a higher percentage of women than the United States. Cuban women had right to vote and won universal healthcare in the 1900s. Cuban women do not take their husbands’ names at marriage. Argentina had a woman president. Mexico’s leading potential opposition candidate for president is a woman. If you tried telling Latin American women that American-style feminism was something they should want or need, they would laugh in your face! They’re doing better than American women in the fight for equality.

To anyone still doubting what I say, please read my friend Lynn Stoner’s work on Latin American women.

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