ABSTRACT
This chapter describes that what looks like betrayal between women on the basis of race originates, the author believes in sexism/heterosexism. Chicanas begin to turn the backs on each other either to gain male approval or to avoid being sexually stigmatized by them under the name of puta, vendida, jota. This phenomenon is as old as the day is long, and first learned in the school yard, long before it is played out with a vengeance within political communities. Chicanas' negative perceptions of ourselves as sexual persons and consequential betrayal of each other find their roots in a four-hundred-year-long Mexican history and mythology. They are further entrenched by a system of anglo imperialism which long ago put Mexicanos and Chicanos in a defensive posture against the dominant culture. The sexual legacy passed down to the Mexicana/Chicana is the legacy of betrayal, pivoting around the historical / mythical female figure of Malintzin Tenepal.
