å Monday, December 4th, 2017

In her piece, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others”, Lila Abu-Lughod talks about how the West viewed the people of Islamic, specifically women. She argues how Westerns used the concept that the women there need saving or are enslaved in attempts to changed their ways. Western media has made it seem as if the people there understand what freedom is and needs to spread it to other cultures. She goes on to saying how the U.S. was trying to find a reason to to enter the country and after the attack on September 11th, 2001, the United States went in on the terms that it was a war against terrorism. In her argument, she points out how the troops (U.S.) didn’t really understand the culture of the area. First lady at the time, Laura Bush made the point of how the women there were being oppressed by the Taliban because they were enforcing the women to wear the veil. It was all for the wrong reasons, there were numerous other issues women there faced yet they decided to address the issue of clothing. She also directs how the people of the U.S. were also oppressed not being able to dress the way they want without being looked down upon by the community. If a girl in the U.S. were to wear revealing clothing at night she be immediately deemed as a slut or whore, she isn’t able to dress the way she pleases without a guy catcalling her. She kind of wants to point out that the U.S. shouldn’t be meddling into other people’s problems when they can’t even take car of their own. Overall I feel like people should be able to do what they want so long it doesn’t not impact others negatively; people shouldn’t be oppressed.

In the article, “Affective Economies” written by Sarah Ahmed, she discusses how hate attends to our emotions within our economic structure. Emotions play a crucial role within everyones everyday lives, Whether its talking about a sad show you saw, or something that made you laugh. In the beginning of her article, the narrative talks about how it is the love for the nation that makes other people hate one another. In this article, Sarah Ahmed want people to realize that people love to hate one another. There is a huge correlation between loving and hating. In today’s economy you need to have a job in order to earn money. Most people will get a job with something they have interest in doing. They will end up loving their job, but if the economy goes to dumps and people start getting laid off and loosing their jobs, it causes fear to rise. When fear of losing something you have happen, it can cause hatred. You can start hating the people who will take your job etc. Some people can say that our emotions are the problems, not the individual. Ahmed state on page 119, “in such affective economies, emotions do things, and they align individuals with communities- or bodily space with social space- through they very intensity of their attachments. Rather seeing emotions as psychological dispositions, we need to consider how they work, in concrete and particular ways, to mediate the relationship between psychic and the social, and between the individual and the collective.” I agree with this statement here. In oder for love and hate to come about, you need to take a step back and look at your emotions and how they can contribute to your everyday life, if your emotions are a positive impact or a negative impact. Your emotions become a property when you discuss how a certain thing may make you feel.