Machismo Culture

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Throughout the world, women are persecuted due solely to their gender. This is heightened in certain countries due to the cultural beliefs that have shaped every aspect of the society. This is clearly illustrated through the machismo culture which exists in most Latin America countries. This culture has dictated the way which the societies have been built and, because of this, it affects every aspect of women's lives in this society. Conflictingly, machismo culture negatively affects society for both men and women. Women are forced to be submissive while men are pushed to assert their musicality to dangerous levels. This can be seen through the domestic abuse epidemic, homosexual repression, and other aspects of the Latino community; This type …show more content…
In a study by the Journal of Family Violence, they examined rates of domestic violence against Latinas and non-Latinas. Although the findings show that Latinas and non-Latinas have the same rates of domestic violence, there were other discrepancies in their findings. The discrepancies were due to the intersectionality of their identity. Domestic violence affects Latina women in a different manner due to the machismo culture which surrounds them. The study was conducted with Latinas in Mexico City, Latinas who lived in the United States, and Anglo-Saxon women. They found that the two groups of Latinas had very comparable results. The results were so similar that they were grouped into one category. The Latinas who had migrated to the United States had retained the same machismo culture. The Latinas had differences which were not congruent with the dominant norm of white and American. The Latina women in the study were less likely to report the domestic violence because of their knowledge of law enforcement agencies, but more importantly, how these agencies have previously treated people of color (Meredyth Goldberg Edelson). The physical and mental abuse was something that for the Latina women had come to accept it as a cultural norm (Meredyth Goldberg Edelson). The psychological trauma which these women faced and their reactions to the trauma differed compared to the Anglo-Saxon women due to the …show more content…
Part of this hyper-masculinity is overt sexuality, which men are pressured to conform to. Women, on the other hand, are expected to abstain from sex unless it is to perform the role of reproduction. Silvana Paternostro explains Latin American sexual culture, “in our society, women attach punitive attitudes to their sexuality. They associate sex with sin, so they carry a negative emotional burden” (Silvana Pertnostro, p. 83). Nevertheless, this places the women in the most danger because they are at risk for higher exposure to sexually transmitted diseases which they are not aware of. Men can have multiple partners in which they can contract various diseases and return to their wives to spread
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