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Strength and sex
Natasha BEL • Painting, 2023, 40×30 cm
Description of the artwork «Strength and sex»
To be strong and sexy. To be for yourself.
Women feel guilty about their strength and sexuality. We have stereotypical beliefs in our heads that:
- a strong woman is masculine, rude, "not economic," lonely and unhappy;
- sexy - available, frivolous, unfaithful wife and bad mother.
We don't allow ourselves to be stronger than a man because it hurts his masculinity and takes away his "prey energy". We don't allow ourselves to be sexual because it leads to excessive attention, insults and dirt.
the "cult of family values" teaches women to be afraid of their future and desires. But to live in fear of being unwanted or, on the contrary, mutilated, means not to know a full life at all.
The fixation on female "correctness" is the idea of submission. By not accepting the imposed guilt, we become free.
A woman wins when she allows herself to be herself.
Women feel guilty about their strength and sexuality. We have stereotypical beliefs in our heads that:
- a strong woman is masculine, rude, "not economic," lonely and unhappy;
- sexy - available, frivolous, unfaithful wife and bad mother.
We don't allow ourselves to be stronger than a man because it hurts his masculinity and takes away his "prey energy". We don't allow ourselves to be sexual because it leads to excessive attention, insults and dirt.
the "cult of family values" teaches women to be afraid of their future and desires. But to live in fear of being unwanted or, on the contrary, mutilated, means not to know a full life at all.
The fixation on female "correctness" is the idea of submission. By not accepting the imposed guilt, we become free.
A woman wins when she allows herself to be herself.
