I wanted to include both my art walkthrough and my presentation as published works, and here is my slideshow in downloadable format! A chaotic exploration of how to heal from the boxes we have been born into and how they shape us. I hope you enjoy!
I wanted to include both my art walkthrough and my presentation as published works, and here is my slideshow in downloadable format! A chaotic exploration of how to heal from the boxes we have been born into and how they shape us. I hope you enjoy!
I enjoyed the multi-modal aspects of this presentation (personal anecdotes, research, and art) and it made it very inclusive and complete. The art is GORGEOUS and does a good job of showing what it is like growing up learning that you’re either a virgin or a whore.
I really enjoyed this presentation. Growing up in a religious background these messages of purity and judgement echoed throughout my childhood and life. I have seen this categorization of women reflected in the women around me as well as in my own life where people placed assumptions on my body deeming me a whore or prude.
I loved learning about you and your religious background. I think that our backgrounds definitely affect the way we experience and see the world. Secondly, your collages were incredible: I loved seeing another art form that hadn’t been used in the class yet. It was very interesting to see how this complex arises and how it manifests in women-men relationships. Something I would have loved to see was how this complex may manifest in WLW relationships (and other queer relationships) if it does at all. I loved the last section of the project: it is important to talk about how we can move forward in a way that makes the issue better. I appreciated that you focused on ways in which we can all do our part in order to make it better for ourselves and others. It was a very positive and uplifting take on a deeply negative issue. I’m certainly hopeful for a better future after your presentation!
Ame, I am so glad that you brought up WLW relationships! It was something I desperately wanted to include (especially as a queer woman), but I just wasn’t able to expand on! I hope to look into in the future, as I have no doubt that queer women are affected by the complex in different but similar ways. Thank you for your feedback and sweet words!
I love the collages you made! I think the differences of what “the virgin” and “the whore” is so interesting and how men often see women as one or the other. While it’s so disappointing to realize that this is such a deeply rooted issue, it is so important to talk about and raise awareness about this topic. I especially liked how you talked about solutions for this issue and how to stop letting men feel that they are entitled to having sex or getting their sexual needs met regardless of the price that women may have to pay for it.
I agree and really like the way you contrast the two extreme end/type of women and how they were criminalized. I have many conversation with my friend and seeing them objectifying themselves made me feel sad and helpless some times. I like how you dive into different books and find ways to help- really insightful!
This was a very organized and thorough presentation. I specifically liked the image collages and I thought they were very representative of the topic. I agree that more conversation about this topic can help to remove this stigma from the minds of people, and help men be more open about women’s sexuality without judgement.
This is such an interesting topic and I’m glad someone covered it more beyond what we said in class. Also works well in conjunction with some other peoples’ presentations. I thought the collages were very well done – especially the first one. I could see it going viral on tumblr (in a good way). It’s such a broad topic but I think you did a good job distilling it to some key points.
I love the artwork, and this entire project really hit close to home. So many people focus on simply the male objectification of women, and rarely the negative effects that lead to female self-objectification. I also love that you included resources and proposed ideas for working towards healing, thank you!
LOVE the art! Such beautiful pieces that really encompass what you were speaking about in your presentation. Dissociation during sex is something we really do not give enough air time to and I really appreciated how you brought up this issue, exploring both how it is almost commonplace for women to do and men to ignore/be unbothered by. I also loved the exploration of the Madonna whore complex and how women are unallowed to be multidimensional as people. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, book recommendation, and art!
Your collages are so cool and I love how you connected each of them to a clearly designated section of your project. It was a beautiful and creative way to do it and shows how well organized your project is. I thought your point about automatically categorizing people we meet into the virgin/whore dichotomy was so interesting because it’s something that’s so easy to see happen in real life, which speaks to how prevalent it is without us even realizing that. The other thing that really stuck out to me was your point that “men don’t care or don’t know to care,” which is such a sad reality. Really well presented and researched–thank you !
Beautiful work, amazing presentation, literally wow. I know that most of us (if not all of us as women) have had these labels thrown at us at some point, and most of us have labels ourselves in the same way. Which is why I love that you brought this topic up and that you encouraged us at the end to heal from the toxic mindset we grew with.
I want to start by saying that this presentation was so aesthetically beautiful. Thank you for giving us background information about yourself, it was so interesting learning why you chose to talk about this. Your collages were so fantastic, they really demonstrated your topic of choice! Something that stuck out to me during your presentation was when you were discussing the impacts the whore and virgin mentality have on women. In this section when you mention that some women feel shame just because they were born as women, it shook me to my core. I can’t imagine how terrible it must feel to shame yourself for just the way you were born. Also, Hitomi Mochizuki seems like such an amazing content creator thank you for the recommendation!
Your whole project was so beautiful and I really loved your artwork, it perfectly captured your topic in an aesthetic way! I also liked that you included definitions for the “whore” and the “virgin,” and your point that women have no space in between really resonated with me. I thought your discussion of dissociation and self-objectification was so well put and captures some of the things I’ve heard from women in my own life. Amazing project!
The art of your project is so cool! I enjoyed how the Madonna whore complex and how women are not allowed to have multiple facets as individuals were explored. We rarely engage in conversations about dissociation during intimate moments, and I appreciate that you raised this topic. Your discussion on how it’s common for women to experience this phenomenon and how men often overlook or disregard it was insightful. I appreciate you sharing your ideas and artwork!
I enjoyed the dichotomy of the content and the presentation layout/decoration; I think that was a small, but meaningful touch added to the presentation. Moreover, I loved how well laid out this was! I am a big fan of exploring the impacts of the Madonna whore complex and how this is compared to men; women are shamed for not being one-dimensional, whereas men get the luxury to do so. Awesome project!