 Feminists and practitioners have debated over how the practice is seen, with feminists stating that it is a violent kind of women’s oppression while proponents see it as a cultural perception of purification, and critics have argued whether or not Sembene subverts or upholds the status quo.The term "pornotroping", which describes how myths surrounding the image of black women are imposed on their bodies via visual modes of representation, such as film, that effectively support the “othering” of black womanhood, has been brought up in the discussion of "Moolaade.