Women
I always come back to the thought that we as women get crushes, feel this limerence, get obsessed when we don’t have enough creative outlets.
My favorite podcast wild geese said “a crush will take you places you wouldn’t go with a gun” and I think about that once a week at least.
So how do I get out of that state of being. How do I get rid of my
... See moreBut women also possessed an organ of the highest biological – and social – value: the uterus. Possession of this organ defined the purpose of women: to bear and raise children. Knowledge about female biology centred around women’s capacity – and duty – to reproduce. Being biologically female defined and constrained what it meant to be a woman. And
... See moreElinor Cleghorn • Unwell Women
Like wolves, women are sometimes discussed as though only a certain temperament, only a certain restrained appetite, is acceptable. And too often added to that is an attribution of moral goodness or badness according to whether a woman’s size, height, gait, and shape conform to a singular or exclusionary ideal. When women are relegated to moods,
... See moreDr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.
The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a sight.
John Berger • Ways of Seeing
We see so many pieces of art ruined by the human touch. Women are groped, abused, harassed. You can see it in our art. People grabbing sculptures in disgusting ways leaving marks for ages. Changed the meaning of the art forever. Then you look at sculptures of men. They are untouched. Left for people to interpret by their original meaning.
Why are we as women told to be smaller, we used to be worshiped for being big and strong. You can see it in our art, our paintings, sculptures. It’s so sad that we have gotten to the point in our society that we want women to be so insignificant that we have made the standard to be as small as possible almost as if society wishes we would vanish
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