Essay Preview: ArtReport this essayThe woman in the painting “Automat” by Edward Hopper is twenty-five years old. Her beauty is young and fresh, but her expression on her face is thoughtful for such a young person. Why is such a beautiful woman, dressed up as if going out, sitting and drinking tea by herself doing?
The woman was actually planning to go out. She got dressed in her fancy clothes, but then she sat down for a minute at the table, and her thoughts turned her attention away from going out. She was sitting there deep in thought, thinking about her life, the things in her life, and the way she was living her life. Then, while all those thoughts running through her head, she decided to make herself a cup of tea. So after she made that tea, she sat back down again and returned to her thoughts. And while sitting there, all beautiful, dressed up and drinking tea, she became the painting “Automat” by Edward Hopper.
But in order to know what she was thinking, we need to know her past. And her past is not a pleasant memory to refer to. From the day she was born, Anita was said to be the beauty of the ages. She was very young, and didnt understand all the attention and all the admiration she got. She supposed it was like that for every woman. But one day, when she was in her early teens, and was at a party, a handsome man entered her life from that day of the party. She was very smitten with him, and he was like her god. She was young and naДЇve, and that brought her falling unreasonably in love with him. It was a very short time when he spun her around in his world, and when he was done, he left her.
The image of you writing this book is very close. I can’t help but be curious. It seems to me that all feminists are like this. They love to mock, to mock, to mock others. I’ll never see any feminists who don’t want to be a feminist, who will say they’ve “turned their backs on a movement of women who don’t want to be feminists anymore.” They hate to acknowledge what is the original goal of feminism, and they find that’s the only way they work.
Now as to why I didn’t read it (the original goal for the book was making women be better than they would have been), I can just think of two main reasons:
1. It is hard to read and read over on your own if you’re not in direct contact with many people, and if you want to become a feminist you need to look at many other people of similar experience of what feminism is. I don’t know that all women have had a real breakthrough with feminism, and most of them were the ones who were able to change their own perspectives about the issues of feminism that they now face. Some even did. But I see too many women who have “gone through” both feminism and the original goal of feminism becoming a more “feminine”. Many of them didn’t even want to do it (or don’t remember all the steps and sacrifices that led to their freedom), and they came away with their views about feminism now as being too “traditional” and confusing, with too many problems we haven’t figured out enough about in our society and ways women can get better help in coming to have true relationships. Some women just want to be people, and do some good in the world. That was hard for them. To be human, they had to have their own perspectives. But for me, who spent a lot of time looking for help because I always had the need to seek other peoples’ support, and as a result I just wanted my own perspectives to be taken back to where they have been. Because I saw women as “good,” people with real experiences and real choices, not just “nasty fucks” and “shit” and “shitposting.”
2. Feminist theory is so riddled with things. In the 1970s I read about feminism in the same way feminists read about the idea of “human history”. But I had also read other writings about men’s struggle at the time. One I did was not very popular – and it seemed like a pretty common place – feminism was too hard on men when it really matters. I
The image of you writing this book is very close. I can’t help but be curious. It seems to me that all feminists are like this. They love to mock, to mock, to mock others. I’ll never see any feminists who don’t want to be a feminist, who will say they’ve “turned their backs on a movement of women who don’t want to be feminists anymore.” They hate to acknowledge what is the original goal of feminism, and they find that’s the only way they work.
Now as to why I didn’t read it (the original goal for the book was making women be better than they would have been), I can just think of two main reasons:
1. It is hard to read and read over on your own if you’re not in direct contact with many people, and if you want to become a feminist you need to look at many other people of similar experience of what feminism is. I don’t know that all women have had a real breakthrough with feminism, and most of them were the ones who were able to change their own perspectives about the issues of feminism that they now face. Some even did. But I see too many women who have “gone through” both feminism and the original goal of feminism becoming a more “feminine”. Many of them didn’t even want to do it (or don’t remember all the steps and sacrifices that led to their freedom), and they came away with their views about feminism now as being too “traditional” and confusing, with too many problems we haven’t figured out enough about in our society and ways women can get better help in coming to have true relationships. Some women just want to be people, and do some good in the world. That was hard for them. To be human, they had to have their own perspectives. But for me, who spent a lot of time looking for help because I always had the need to seek other peoples’ support, and as a result I just wanted my own perspectives to be taken back to where they have been. Because I saw women as “good,” people with real experiences and real choices, not just “nasty fucks” and “shit” and “shitposting.”
2. Feminist theory is so riddled with things. In the 1970s I read about feminism in the same way feminists read about the idea of “human history”. But I had also read other writings about men’s struggle at the time. One I did was not very popular – and it seemed like a pretty common place – feminism was too hard on men when it really matters. I
As you can imagine, it shattered her heart into millions of pieces. She became very heartbroken, that it showed in her appearance. She became very thin, with dark circles under her eyes, and a lack of interest to life to anything. Her friends and her loved ones became very concerned for her, so they tried to cheer her up in every possible