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Subject: About the Womyn In Violence ArtWork...

Posted By:  candace1977  in reply to Topic
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Posted On:  5/28/2005 11:49 PM Viewing 2 of 2 Replies

After a series of horrible relationships and almost being date raped I started to evaluate how the Western world views womyn. I always had a subscription to Playboy for it was a cheap way to have a nude model. But as I started to look at those models in a different light after all that happened to me. I know those women are in Playboy and such for their own "good" reasons, but the idea that womyn are just play things for the men around them started to make me sick.

I started to see similarities between the advertising in some of those magazines and how some men treat womyn in the real world. I still see it now. I see the guys who seem to think it's okay to grab the waitress's butt while she's trying to hurry along serving multiple tables at once so she can pay all the bills that are waiting for her at home. I have heard the "cat calls" that guys make to the lady as she is waiting for the bus or just trying to cross the street. I've seen and been in the relationships where the guy treats the gal like an inconvenience unless he's trying to get under her skirt. Or the men who call the womyn "baby" or "honey" cause he doesn't care what her name is because he'll have a different new "baby" or "honey" next weekend.

I guess I am sick of all this mistreatment towards womyn and felt a need to express it.

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