I'm fed up to the ears with the self-important mystification of the female sex and sexuality by feminist artists like Breillat. I believe many feminists half-consciously promote the sexist mystique of women's sexuality by placing women on a pedestal and turning their sexuality into a special object for intellectual contemplation.
It is symptomatic of this particular form of narcissism that the hub of the discussion is the female body, always the female body, and the subversive, scrotum-withering energies it is supposed to contain. Feminist artists rave endlessly about their bodies and, what is particularly telling, their menstrual blood.
They talk about menstrual blood as if it were the core-juice of their very being as women, and of course about men's supposedly institutionalised and politicised fear of that nectar of womanhood. It never occurs to them that the "stigma" or "attitudes" associated with menstruation may derive from the same source as the resentment of blood and other bodily fluids in general.
The explanation to women's own displeasure at the sight of menstruation, I mean their strange and irrational reluctance to wallow and revel in blood dribbling from their privates, is, of course, the internalised self-hatred which patriarchal society has instilled in women.
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Aziz_Light
16 years ago
Talking about menstrual blood, nay, the very thought of the whole process, is f%cking revolting. Not mystical,not poetic, not symbolic of the female mystique. Revolting. Now shut the hell up about it, because no one cares.
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vanityfair_713
13 years ago
If men menstruated I'm sure the whole process would be thought of very differently.
Personally, I think I have too much bloom. Maybe that's the trouble with me.
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schrmnspoiled1
15 years ago
I so agree with you. They're all misandrist and I am sick of people saying someone so blatantly sexist as this "artist" is brilliant.
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