Marcus Anderson Post 3 The Venus Hottentot

I thought that he video that was watch was awesome in describing the struggles that Sarah Baarttman went through in her life. I myself was not aware of the Venus Hottentot, until I saw the footage that we had watched on her. Although I was not suprised about how she became a spectacle to the white audiences of her time. Her struggles are the same ones that we still as people face today. Just because the she was "different" in her physical features, made her some kind of different species, when the truth was is that she was just a person. I though it was very intersting how the scientist and people, were so interested in what she had underneath her garments, that she used to cover up, rather than what she knew intellectually. When we don't understand each other for our similarities and differences, then that's when conflict can come and cause havoc. I think that in todays times, people have gained a little more understanding about different races and cultures, but not to where we "should" be in this day and age. We still have some work to do. One more little interesting thing that I observed is how in our society a " Venus Hottentot" women is looked at by some as a good thing. Now im comming from a male perspective here but people in society now a days may like a women with curves to her such as the Venus Hottentot had. My reason for pointing that out is to show how a society who once had no understanding and appreciation for the different physical appearence of a women, now might actually appreciate and like it. I just think it's very iteresting, how as a society those old ways are being overturned as time progresses.