Not Out Side the range-

In Laura Browns essay "Not outside the range: One Feminists Perspective On Psychic Trauma," she makes a point about traumatic experienced only existing outside the range of normal human experience.  Her argument was "the range of human experience becomes the range of what is normal and usual in the lives of men of the dominant class; white, young able-bodied, educated, middle-class, Christian men"(Brown 101).  She said that trauma is what interrupts these particular human lives and no other, so that things like war and genocide, also provoked by the actions and thoughts of men in male dominated culture is a more agreed upon trauma rather than the secret trauma that happens in the bed of women such as rape. The secret trauma is probably not fully recognized because of its delicate and personal state and also it level of secrecy whereas if a vehicle crashes or a boat sinks,, these traumatic events are on the surface, and is immediately seen as a matter of life and death, or grounds for rescuing.  They are equally traumatic, but not equally observed by the public, so it is understandable why the dominant class is seen as a social norm for trauma, but it rules out or overshadows what happens to the poor, or women, possibly because it covers more people, and in our culture today, what happens to the higher class gets brought to the light more than the lower class,possobly because we recognize them as individual.