Indigenous Brazilian feminists have criticized the phrase for normalizing and trivializing rape and violence against Indigenous women. The Brazilian anthropologist Alcinda Rita Ramos has argued that the ancestry myth of an Indigenous ancestor who was caught by a lasso is a way of claiming "Indian blood" as an "abstraction with no material cost". By claiming that the mythical Indigenous grandmother's blood was transfused throughout the generations, non-Indigenous Brazilians are making a claim to legitimate Brazilian identity stretching back many generations. Ramos has claimed that non-Indigenous Brazilians' claim to the "Indian grandmother is like an ornament that one wears one day and puts away the next." In the Brazilian national imagination, a "good Indian" is one who remotely contributed her blood to the soil of the Brazilian nation but who is far removed from modern day life. The alleged ancestor is always a distant female ancestor and never a mother, father, or grandfather, though this is accurate as genetic studies have shown that  while a third of  white Brazilians carry maternal Indigenous DNA a far smaller percentage are descended from Indigenous ancestors on the male line.