Week 6 - Feb. 14

I was made very uncomfortable by the description of the performance of Indigurrito, and a little confused about how this is supposed to relate to the Chicana feminist movement. While I agree with the movement, I found the description of the performance repulsive. How is that supposed to create gender equality? How does parading onstage nearly naked, eating from your shirt, and strapping a burrito between your legs make you equal? I think that it asks the audience to objectify you and detracts from people who are actually struggling and working hard for equality. Also, I did not understand why she would expect people, and why anyone did, come forward to ask for absolution. How can she absolve them, and did they do something specific against Chicana women or are they just white men that must bear this burden because of who they are? If they did not participate in the racism, but others of the same race did and they are then blamed, is that not also presumptuous of the performer?