"if she’s being accused of stereotyping, then she’s turning the oriental fantasy on its head when she has Arabian women dressed in khaki styled, though still Arabian, dress or gear, toting guns and strutting their stuff with a swagger unknown to the conservative female society that has women closed off or ‘haremed’ from the male gaze. M.I.A’s girls are a far-cry from the harem-veiled subversive mysterious women of the oriental fantasy in their floaty feminine veils, if we’re accusing her of feeding stereotypes. She’s toying with the militarized West infiltrating Arabia. Sexing it up a notch to have her 'bad girls' taking male guns and aggro."
Whoa rarely do I read somthing so wrong. Yes the MIA video is diffrent from certian arab sterotypes but, sexing up the Middle East is not new. The mysterious sexy Middle East is a huge part of oreintalism. MIA is not changing the sterotype but reinforcing it.
wallah thats bad.
ReplyDeleter kelly is a show stopper though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9-B3XRCCN4
"if she’s being accused of stereotyping, then she’s turning the oriental fantasy on its head when she has Arabian women dressed in khaki styled, though still Arabian, dress or gear, toting guns and strutting their stuff with a swagger unknown to the conservative female society that has women closed off or ‘haremed’ from the male gaze. M.I.A’s girls are a far-cry from the harem-veiled subversive mysterious women of the oriental fantasy in their floaty feminine veils, if we’re accusing her of feeding stereotypes. She’s toying with the militarized West infiltrating Arabia. Sexing it up a notch to have her 'bad girls' taking male guns and aggro."
ReplyDelete-http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/defence-mias-bad-girl-arab-bashing-412426
Whoa rarely do I read somthing so wrong. Yes the MIA video is diffrent from certian arab sterotypes but, sexing up the Middle East is not new. The mysterious sexy Middle East is a huge part of oreintalism. MIA is not changing the sterotype but reinforcing it.
whoa that R Kelly video is insane
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