Empowerment

or progressive subterfuge

concealing incremental enslavement

exploitative of

biological differences
unknown to any other living creature
plant or animal

what, whither,
liberation?
what, whither,
empowerment?

an inquiry in humility

not an assertion

but obsessive bafflement

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Anonymous wrote:

Allow me to comment in 3 parts.

First, the elegance of the form which i read as artfulness, signifies the way in which the market has 'sold' empowerment to women, conveying through advertising blitzkrieg that enhancing appearance is equal to beauty is equal to superiority is equal to power over other women and men of course. 

Second, the fine detailing of the curves and the finery / jewellery represents the craving and desire that all 'normal' women must experience / possess in order to accomplish the above objective.

And third, the bent, bowed and to my critical gaze even twisted image symbolises the 'un defeatable' abjectness of the 'woman condition' which only intensifies with every apparent bold step (hu)mankind takes in the direction of empowering it.

And your words so completely expressing your "obsessive bafflement" serve as a chilling non question... how can it be otherwise.
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Anonymous said...

The picture is lovely, I saw it as an odalisque / apsara, reclining sensuously. The text reveals it in a new light, as a woman who may be chained into a submissive position, or even ducking to avoid a blow.