Abuse and Sexuality

When Eli talks about when she was abused as a child by her father it brought out the topic she wrote in this chapter. She said that abuse is caused by the sexuality of a child. What is so important about this statement is that usually a person would say that sexuality is caused by abuse. Such abuse that a child would normally endure that is thought to lead a child in their future to possibly change their sexuality would be rape. As shown by Eli it could be the complete opposite way around. She believes that the reason children have to deal with abuse is because of their sexuality. For example, she was abused by her father to push her back to acting feminen. He would rape her to show her how she should act normally.
Another important part in this specific section was when Eli writes about how she asked her mother if she was feminen. This seems important for a few reasons one of which it stops her growth as a female in a way. Her mother didn't remember her response to the question. Therefore could not help with her growing up and not being raped by her father and acting like a normal girl. Another possible reason in my mind atleast for this to be such a key factor is because of the fact that she always saw her sister putting make up on and other things like that. Eli could have possibly seen that as being wrong and the way she acted being normal.
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