Hey Carolina, cool blog post! I like how you brought Sacco’s somewhat recent work into the context of our class, and I think it strongly adds to the discussion we were having about whether Sacco’s book was feminist or sexist. About the image you included in your blog, I realize now that my last blog post was totally off topic as I completely forgot to write about the assigned topic (whoops! I’m sorry Dr. Luger!), but it just so happens that it connects to what I did write about, so I will continue. In my last blog post I talked about Professor Erickson’s rant and the connections it made to Joy Kogawa’s themes of fear and discrimination in her book Obasan. I would be really interested to see what Erickson would have to say about Joe Sacco’s work, specifically the comic that you included as it portrays our rush to generalize everything in this day and age, and how we are not so different in our world view than the terrorists. I love your line: “the Eurocentric-tinted glasses will fog up everything”. I think this is so true, and that it may even fog up our glasses so much that we cannot see what we are doing anymore, especially when we blindly follow the media’s message that ‘Islam promotes violence’, or something similar. The last image on Sacco’s comic page speaks volumes about this situation we find ourselves in. His line “certainly something was deeply wrong with the killers – then let us drive them from their homes and into the sea… For that is going to be far easier than sorting out how we fit in each other’s world” for me represents these glasses that you talk about. I think they fog up everything, because they don’t allow us to see ourselves from an objective perspective anymore. The interesting question for me is: how do we take them off? For as Sacco has pointed out, it certainly won’t be the acts of terrorists that do it, and (ironically) for that matter it won’t be ourselves either. We must then find some way to wipe off these glasses, to de-fog them, before we even attempt to take them off. I think that you might have keyed into how Sacco was using his comic works to show the women of Gorazde, as not less than men, but as humans, and therefore start to wipe off these old, foggy glasses that we are wearing.