A semiotician's guide to arguing with Facebook randos about cartoons of Muslim women.
Mar 21 2015
I asked why he thought the woman represented women only, and was not a universal stand-in for all Muslims whose daily lives are a denial of sympathy with Boko Haram, ISIS, et al. His answer? ‘Because it’s a woman.
All Jeff Dorchen wants to do on Facebook is post photos of himself dressed as a giant baby, but now he has to spend all his time arguing with some Facebook rando about whether an image of a woman could possibly symbolize anything other than a woman.
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Jeff Dorchen
Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles. He writes the Substack, Right Twice A Day.
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