What is the significant point it nuar alsadir 's article invisible women?

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The significant point is one about ethnicity and identity, and how complicated that becomes when those categories get blurred. As an Iraqi American, Alsadir has been subjected to a kind of invisibility, and a fractured identity -- she is not clearly recognized as an Iraqi, but neither is she fully American. The story of what happened in the East Village bar illustrates this -- she was deemed safely American enough to be in on the "joke" the soldier makes about having killed Iraqis, and yet she's also seen as different enough to be the butt of that joke. Remember, this piece was written at the onset of America's most recent war with Iraq, after 9-11 -- that is, during a time when Arab Americans had been subjected to false stereotypes, villification, and crude humor of the sort this piece illustrates. This essay offers a highly personal take on what it means to be an Iraqi American, a kind of plea for greater understanding, and explores the complexity of how one's identity is perceived, especially when matters of life and death and war are at stake.