This may be the subtlest but most destructive trope of all, - TopicsExpress



          

This may be the subtlest but most destructive trope of all, because it treats womens progress in the Middle East as primarily something that matters when it can be used to humiliate Muslim men. It co-opts Mansouri and Muslim women generally into a sort of practical joke that we Americans get to play on our enemies. This may help explain why commentators praising Mansouri are so often ignorant of the actual facts about the status of women in the Middle East: they care about what she represents for jingoistic insults of Americas enemies, not for what she represents for female advancement. The idea that Mansouris gender would be an ideologically crippling humiliation for ISIS is, in itself, based in racist and Islamophobic misconceptions.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 03:57:08 +0000

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