Angel dives into the adultery world as his platform on sharing knowledge of sexuality as an identity. Having felt that not all genitals are creates equal (81), Angel morphs his emotions based from the normalized conception of having a vagina makes you weak into an empowering standpoint via his role in the sex industry. Similarly, this correlates to Abu-Lughod’s article, “The Muslim Woman: The Power of Images and the Danger of Pity.” Middle Eastern woman in burquas are seen as oppressed beings of the Islam culture as they cannot show their skin, yet this is not a complete representation as our knowledge is partial to the themes society confines the Middle East to. Silencing Muslim woman by claiming them as submissive and hidden individuals under their clothing in magazines is epistemic violence through pity. Through the use of social media, Muslim woman are seen as individuals that need saving from their culture and are consequently stripped of their complexities and diversities in the same way that transsexuals like Angel are neglected by the dominate culture. Yet the differences that exist today need to be challenged to untangle the intertwined histories that (53) impose ignorance in society. Due to society’s lack of awareness, Western culture hides woman of Islam …show more content…
This behaviour correlates to how society preaches that heterosexuality is rightness in the world, yet this one-sided idea is flawed and comes from the unequal gender system. Compulsive heterosexual men gain their sense of freedom through their “sexulaized dominance over grils’ bodies” (p.114) which is heavily encoded such that it is synamous for affection. While, Angel may not be accepted by vast majority, he has found his freedom even in the flawed system of gender by understanding his identity and how it relates differently from the normativity- in that sense he as disintegrated the cultural pressures of sexualization. On the other hand, Pascoe’s work highlights how the binary of straight men have to binary gains it identity and self conception by pushing the other side away through hateful comments, a reflection on the limits of one’s partial knowledge. Homophobia is not sexual liberation by bringing someone down to feel