h other vulgarities that society does not accept I kiss her backThen us touch each other (118). Mainly, because female sexuality as a whole is discounted and seen as a negative portrayal of our home lives. And your home life makes you what you are in a public eye. So lesbian acts are deemed unmentionable as well. This is what the body is portrayed like in our society for a women, you can look, just dont touch it.Reproduction is the second factor that is a touchy concept in todays world as well as in the novel. But the thought of anybody getting pregnant make me want to cry (261) is a choice that shows how women in the novel perceive their lives as mothers. Thats all they have going for them. The women stay home and care for children while the men provide. This is republican motherhood all over again. This just is not acceptable in the modern world, but it happens through fear and trough violence (discussed in the latter part of this paper). What is it like? He git up on you, heist your nightgown round your waist, plunge in. Most times I pretend I aint there. He never know the difference (Walker). This also allows for a chance to see again how women are used not just for their bodies, but the assumption is made that he is always on her to help promote his genes in the race, since he has two children and she has another. Just do your business and leave that happens to be a big stereotype of men in our culture today. Men date women to get what they want and then leave. Bang and Bail as my male friends like to classify it. It is a main stream idea to have men be sexually promiscuous and women be sexually passive. Give the man what he wants and do not bother him the rest of the time. These are all cliches that have probably been shared as jokes, but have now become part of our major understanding of the world as we know it. The Color Purple as well as these main stream ideas leave no morals for the families any longer. Besides a woman is pre...
