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وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: There is colonial feminism: O, White Man. Save her.
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: There is colonial feminism: O, White Man. Save her.
Look at this woman writing about women in the newspaper of the Abu Dhabi's ruling family. Basically, it is along the lines of: O, White Man. Come and save me. O, White Man. Where are your armies to bomb me and save me? And notice that she is writing in English. If she really wants to make change, why would she be writing in the English language mouthpice of the House of Nahyan in UAE? And then she gets scientific: "Indeed women all over Asia and the Middle East are harassed constantly." Notice that she has no qualms in saying "women all over" the region of brown and black people and then adds a scientic statement that is based on empirical research: that women are "harassed constantly." What does constantly mean? Non-stop? Every hour? And she in this silly article clearly operates from an epistimological distinction between East and West: in the West--according to her--there are no such things are harassment, and just as Nawal Saadawi did in that lousy little book called The Hidden Face of Eve, she relates matters of sexism and harrassment to the peculiar conditions of the East.
Of course, she manages to pay tribute to the UAE's ruling families: "The Emirates is the most female-friendly country in the Middle East." She then manages to sound racist and classist at the same time: she blames the poor Asian workers for harrassment because as is well known the White Man in the West does not harrass or abuse or murder women, although the rates of abuse and murder of women are much higher, say, in the US than in the countries she is talking about. "Many of the labourers in the Emirates have also had little exposure to the outside world because they are from small towns. When they move here, it is often their first contact with the rich and developed world.
They have a natural curiosity about the way westerners live because they have snatched glimpses of it in films. European and North American expatriates have a lifestyle labourers can never hope to attain, and wandering around a mall on a hot Friday afternoon is an opportunity to experience that which embodies all the wealth, glamour and power of the West: the mobile phones, the high-definition televisions, men in clean, pressed suits, women in skimpy clothes."
Labels: womens issues
Submitted by: The Angryindian 11.7.09 editor.novajoservo@gmail.com Permalink
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