No, as someone else pointed out, the media is embracing this by and large, and not at all pointing out the real problems of this woman’s “journey of 1000 imperialists”… they are presenting her mostly as a empowered woman who is showing the natives how to be in this world. They ignore the racist and imperialist implications of this and celebrate her cultural appropriation.
It’s not her, it’s her actions regarding other people, that’s the problem. I’m saying that we should very much point out when the privileged do destructive things in this world, because even things like this has consequences. While on the scale of it, this is not huge as say drone bombing children and arming possibly problematic actors in the Middle East, it does matter. It is not either/or, it’s all a part of the whole. The point Mille, I, and many others in this thread are making is that this is in no way “harmless”. Period. I agree that media is part of the problem, but largely because they assume this is empowering stuff, as if feminism is only for empowering white women to be more like white men, not destructiv of themselvses, enabling imperial interventions. Should I sit down and shut up when I see some obviously racist, sexist, or classist thing that doesn’t directly involve me? Am I not part of this world, and do my actions and inactions matter or not? If I don’t stand up and point out when things are wrong, both locally and globally, whose job is it to say that something is wrong. Who gets to decide what is destructive and hurtful? Only rich white people? Many well off white people have a long history of only acting in their own interests, not in the interests of the whole.
