Section A01
Oct 25, 2015
Blog 6
While reading "Monster, Terrorits, Fag" by
Puar and Rai, I constantly came back to the idea of orientalism and how the
Westerners' skewed views on the East still remain and are even further
intensified by the 9/11 attacks. Brown people are generalized into one group
which is constantly stereotyped as being mystical, oppressive, monstrous, and
savage. One thing that stuck out to me was how Americans sought to sodomize Bin
Laden and "turn him into a fag" as punishment. These notions of
heteronormativity demonstrate how the America's orientalism has brought
hegemony over the its people, even some of the LGBQT community, to make them
believe that such phrases are acceptable. I also found it interesting how
American feminists demonstrated orientalism by deeming Afghan women in need of
rescue from their male oppressors. Such thinking shows us how the 9/11 attacks
resulted in Americans quickly resorting to racist and sexist attitudes.
Question: Have these oppressive views and opinions
lessened or persevered to the modern day?
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