{"id":13758,"date":"2010-05-22T23:48:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T05:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13758"},"modified":"2010-05-22T23:51:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T05:51:47","slug":"asad-abu-khalil-a-piece-of-vulgar-colonial-feminism-in-counterpunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13758","title":{"rendered":"As&#8217;ad AbuKhalil: A piece of vulgar colonial feminism in Counterpunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As&#8217;ad AbuKhalil writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/angryarab.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/piece-of-vulgar-colonial-feminism-in.html\">A  piece of vulgar colonial feminism in Counterpunch<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Regardless of the motivation, as a sex therapist, it seems to me that  Arab women  could use a little \u201caffirmative action,\u201d when it comes to  showing the world that  they can be powerful, sexual beauties.  Blondes  already know how to have fun (or  so the theory goes).  Muslim girls  also ought to see hot, sexy, well-educated,  responsible role models to  whom they can relate succeeding in life\u2014even  promoting western  values\u2014beyond the <a href=\"http:\/\/counterpunch.org\/block05212010.html\">burqa.&#8221;<\/a> I mean, this piece of&#8230;article belongs to a previous century, or two,  at least.  Shame on Counterpunch for printing.  (thanks Saja)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As&#8217;ad AbuKhalil writes: A piece of vulgar colonial feminism in Counterpunch &#8220;Regardless of the motivation, as a sex therapist, it seems to me that Arab women could use a little \u201caffirmative action,\u201d when it comes to showing the world that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3zU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13763,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758\/revisions\/13763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}