What do you
think would happen if men would pose like women in pictures? Is what different
artist are asking themselves all over the world. The blog “Beauty Is Inside”
reported this phenomenon to attention, and give a look at the post (http://beautyisinside.com/2012/08/if-men-posed-like-women/)
could be instructive for everyone.
We see
distorted images of women every day: on the advert poster in the streets, on Tv
shows, at the supermarket. After the feminist wave of the 60’ and 70’ something
changed: we started thinking the use our body in whichever way we want is a
sign of freedom, but then we became
slavers of that and our society. Is decide to become a slaver a sign of freedom
and a right that everyone can claim? There are not firm answers to these
questions, but we are surely experiencing a step back in the fields of women
rights and gender equality. Women are not dolls or mannequins: everyone seems
to be acknowledged about that, but in everyday l
ife things are different and... Well, distorted just as the way our society sees women.
ife things are different and... Well, distorted just as the way our society sees women.
Can you
imagine your father, your brother or even your fiancé posing like a pin-up?
Now the
question is what we can do to change this situation. Actually this is a very
complicated aspect because many girls and women claim the right to use their
body in every form possible. We have to identify the border between use our
body and being used by someone else. And, the most important, we have to
involve men in the fight for women rights, because just convincing them and
changing their mind we can change our society in a permanent way.
Every
Government should start supporting this fight through education helping young
girls see themselves as a human being with personal rights and not simply like
a body. As the Italian neurologist Rita Levi Montalcini once said: “The women
that changed the World, they’ve never had to show anything, except their
intelligence”.
Agnese Cigliano
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