We wouldn’t be discussing this or much of anything else, via this MEDIA, either. This lady is benefiting from the media and not being scrutinized for her actions, by the media.
You, yourself, are participating in the use of the media so, I don’t’ really understand why you are on your high horse pointing out how we’re acting like rabble by pointing out the harm this women is doing by her actions–which she undertook without the “help of the media” in the first place. This is just another layer on the shit cake of modernism that promoted particular ideas about “non-western, primitive, people without a history” that helped to justify imperialism in the first place. Does media help promote that still–you bet. We get deeply problematic images from the mid-East, which shows us just why “we need to intervene, to save them from themselves”, which of course, leaves out the complicit role of the media.
The point is that this woman’s actions are not “harmless” as you like to think. That’s the point. This would be just as true if we didn’t have the media.
