Black men let themselves have sex with white womyn, but detest that Sula has sex with white men. This mindset expresses male privileges and at the same time gives full expression to the race and gender politics that demarcates Sula’s femelle body, sexuality, and subjectivity. Consequently, Sula’s body is both gendered and racialized. By juxtaposing Sula (a femelle sexual dissident) and Ajax (a male sexual dissident) also demonstrates that distinct body politics for a man and a womyn in the Bottom has a strong influence on differing identity politics. Similar to Sula, Ajax practices sexual anarchy. Ajax sleeps with many different womyn at the same time although he thinks that he has never met a thought-provoking or fascinating womyn in his
