Wednesday, February 6, 2019

a monument to compulsory heterosexuality


Stay in the shadows
Cheer at the gallows
This is a roundup
This is a low-flying panic attack
Sing the song on the radio that goes

Burn the witch
Burn the witch
We know where you live

- "Burn the Witch" by Radiohead


"Women have become the consumer victims of various cures, therapies, and
normative judgments in different periods.... None of the "experts' " advice has been either
particularly scientific or women-oriented; it has reflected male needs, male fantasies
about women, and male interest in controlling women--particularly in the realms of 
sexuality and motherhood--fused with the requirements of industrial capitalism."

"Characteristics of male power include the power of men...to force it [male sexuality] upon them by means of rape...[and] the socialization of women to feel that male sexual "drive" amounts to a right, idealization of heterosexual romance in art, literature, media, advertising, and so forth[...]"

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich

Date | February 6, 2019
Viewer | Black Dragon
Post-Processing | Photoshop CC 2019

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