BEING A WOMAN IN MEN’S WORLD
My first idea for audio paper was how women and their body is seen in different religions all around the world. It’s very wide and deep topic, for which I would need a lot of research.What’s more for my first idea I wan to really work and create something big, that’s why I decided to possibly use it as the topic of my final work in 3rd year. As it’s my first ever attempt with audio paper I decided to go with topic that it’s more familiar to me and would feel more safer. Therefore I choose to focus on women living in work made for men, where the most valued aspect of women’s existence is their body which became a sex object.I was inspired by today’s class exercise, which was about highlighting words/sentences on random page from a book, provided by Ingrid, which are relevant to our audio paper idea. Surrealistic idea of what would it be, to have medication for problems that women go through everyday because of their body. Body that is natural and normal but became a victim of sexualisation and male fantasies. Medication to stop catcalling, sex abuse, sexism, discrimination and toxic pressure to lose virginity and have sex on regular bases. It’s my message to all human beings as the problem starts in our head. We need to stop thinking the way we think and normalize women’s body as it is normal and human just as men’s body, and not a sex object. Why in certain age women are pressured to lose virginity or be sexually active. Not because they want to but, because it is expected from them to be fine with that for the sake of men. Women feeling pain during sex or not feeling any pleasure it’s a normal thing. Women not wanting to have sex, it’s normal thing. Why society thinks it’s weird or abnormal and puts this expectation on women. When they are young no one expects women to use their vagina for sexual purpose, then what’s different when they are older. This is so wrong and toxic. Inequality, because women have vagina, even though till the 7th week of pregnancy fetus has both male and female sex organs counterparts. From the very beginng everyone is equal, why penis is equivalent to human’s worth? DICTIONARY:
MORTAL PART/ CHASSIS
STRUGGLE
WOMEN
MEDICATION
SEX
HUMAN
SEXISM
DISCRIMINATION
CATCALLING
PRESSURE