“Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain”
“The moment we start talking about wounded women, we risk transforming their suffering from an aspect of the female experience into an element of the female constitution — perhaps its finest, frailest consummation. The ancient Greek Menander once said: “Woman is a pain that never goes away.” He probably just meant women were trouble, but his words hold a more sinister suggestion: the possibility that being a woman requires being in pain, that pain is the unending glue and prerequisite of female consciousness."
Every once in awhile something gives me a new vocabulary and perspective for looking good at and understanding behaviors and media, and this is totally one of those things.
A series of amazing vignettes that grow and build in each other and that I could quote for days — “wound dweller”/”fertile wounds”; I wanted to quote the final conclusions but I don’t want to ruin it, getting there with all the context is so beautiful.
Also, the painting — I totally understand this piece of abstract art.
(credit to LG)
