CREATIVE PIECE ON
FEMINISM
THE GOLDEN CROTCH
-Deepali Yadav
Females
are empowered but they still have a long struggle to do on their way to an
absolute equality with the other sex. The term
“other sex”or “second sex” is used for women but why? Why are female second?
Does it not sound inferior and dependent? The painting titled ‘golden crotch’
by Deepali Yadav explores the struggles and action woman have undertook in their
fight for equality. Women are compared to a lioness by making use of pubic area
of a woman and personifying it. This painting is based on brightening the
female sex.
A lioness
hunts for prey and not a lion similarly it’s always a woman who has to fight,
men have always enjoyed their so called birth right- freedom. Yes, even men had
to struggle at some point but didn’t they always have the right to education,
right to vote, they never took contraception’s, never did they get fired for
being pregnant, did they ever face difficulties in getting a credit card? No,
women faced all those struggles; but not all women were equal; women from
colonized countries like India or Africa for example have suffered more
considering they had to fight racism as well. Yes men fought with racism too
but they always had it easy compared to woman. They had much more freedom, they
could do jobs and enter the public area, they could serve as judges, be
presidents and army chiefs and they had many more rights which women had to earn
with their struggle as time progressed. Now some of you may think is she
defending women? Or is she belittling men and their struggles? Well readers I
am doing none I am stating facts with the help of a fictional painting.
The human body is divided into seven and a
half units and the part drawn is three to four and half units; below the navel
area to mid thighs. Blonde hairs are drawn above the groin and they go flowing
sideways to the end. Two black eyes and a nose are made elongating the line of
the vagina and they represent a similarity to the facial features of a lioness.
The body is painted in grey color and features are highlighted with black and
white. By looking at the painting it looks like a lioness with golden hair and
it also looks like a female lower body part with flowing blonde hair. By making
facial features on groin, the female is leveled up by having an identity and
not just an object for male pleasure, females are often commodified in the homosexual
economic market says Luce Irigary in her essay “goods get together”. The vagina
is not there to conceive and deliver babies but it is a mouth which will voice
the injustices done to woman. Females have started to raise their voices
against patriarchal practices and misogynists. The lines of the nose make the
shape of letter V symbolizing victory of female kind. Females and males are the
two sex and inequalities which exist only destroy the future both have. The
mouth is black like the night sky. Does it mean females utter bad words from
their mouths and that’s why they are silenced? No. This is an open mouth ready
to speak, ready to strike, ready for action, ready for rights and ready for
equality. The facial features of the crotch are extremely fierce as they resemble
the powerful and proud lioness, a female should always be proud of the gender
she is born in, she should be powerful enough to stop the injustices done to
her.
Now let’s take a look at
other parts, if you see the starting of the hair, the shape is phallic in
nature. The objective behind it is that man is not the one sits on woman’s head
to order them around but it’s the power of the woman that she can always change
her mind and hairstyle in a flip of a coin if she wishes to do so, the woman
can throw down a man and make him realize his worth anytime she likes. Woman
have always been the one who are put aside but the flowing hair show that she
refuses to be put aside but has power to
free herself from unjust violence. A woman should also let herself flow and not
get stuck in the superstitions and bounds of society. The hair, facial features
and mid-thighs, all these represent a woman who is aware of her sexuality and
the role she is playing and the role she should play. Should she be born,
passed on from father to husband, give birth and die? Is this the life she was
born to live? Maybe yes, maybe no. The point is nobody should hold back, so
what if you have a vagina and not a penis, so what if you have big breasts, so
what if you are beautiful and not bearded, does this mean you have to live a
lowly life? No. A different sex CAN NOT stop you. Some weak balls cannot stop a
hardcore vagina.
Why grey, black and golden?
There are undoubtedly prettier colors for a woman. The grey color in which the
body is painted is the least favorite of any woman and it is a symbol of not
having a personality of one’s own. There are grey areas and grey people that
are always in the middle so basically grey represents a woman who is dependent
on decision of man and does not have any thinking of her own. The reason I
choose this color is because grey is also a symbol of mental power and
reflection of one thought. Woman are thought to be of less or no intellect but this
grey color shows that a woman has mental power to stand up as herself or even
more than that. A woman can’t just be called a “wo-man” but a new word should
be coined that doesn’t have a ‘man’ in it. Readers don’t see me as a sexist
because I ask for a new independent identity for this sex which is considered
weaker but is actually at par with the other sex. The hair has black, white and
golden color signifying that this new woman doesn’t discriminate on the basis
of color and accepts people as they are. The hair are on the groin not the head
showing woman have the complete right of doing out of ordinary things.
Rabindranath Tagore in his
story “exercise book” says that ‘a girls book can be snatched away but there is
no benefactor of humankind that has the strength to take a man’s work away from
him. In the poem “Breaking Out” by Marge Piercy the girl says that when she
broke the stick with which she was often beaten she realized that it was weaker
than she was and that was the day she grew up from a child to an adolescent. The
girl knew what all things are better to break and that this learning was not
losing innocence but gaining power. There are many visual shows which show
gender bender for example “Man’s world”, “She’s’ the man” etc. but they fail to
prove any point apart from entertainment, they show how hard it’s for a woman
but what’s the point. You are still, never going to be an actual woman. TRP’s
were boosted but was women’s status boosted? Of course not, Shows like these
start and end is a complete falsie. I saw in many videos of Buzz feed that
after participating in some experiments which deal with living women’s life in
parts men say they have a greater respect for woman but seriously apart from
some men, most don’t leave their mentality of superiority and hold age old
narrow minded thinking about an ideal woman for example someone who doesn’t
drink, doesn’t go clubbing, is less intellectual than him, and wears covered
clothes and many more. Now you make say what rubbish, it happened back in the
day but now men are very accepting, the problem lays here, in accepting you.
Who are they to accept you? Who are they to give you space? You were born in
your own space lovely woman. They become feminist if they accept you but why
raise them to a pedestal for something that they do which shouldn’t even exist.
Yes this world of feminist and feminism and sexism should cease to exist and
that is when men and woman will have absolute equality. Why do some private
parts decide your fate? Why? Is sex the only thing? Are we humans or sex
addicts? Intellect, ability, morality, responsibility and choice are also words
with meaning and not just to be decorated in a dictionary. Know what’s wrong
and fight woman. Don’t surrender to these misogynists and patriarchal powers. I
am not saying that only men are misogynists but woman are too and it’s a shame!
Women who think without men they are nothing, women who force other women to
suppress to man, be silent on marital rapes, women who comment if some other
women is driving bad (oh accha madam chala rhi hai), at least she is driving
and not being a parasite like you. Not men but women also need a change,
realize that traditions and customs which have existed are not always for your betterment;
they could be and should be changed if are being an obstacle in your life.
The painting shows gender
upliftment of woman; the woman is standing up from the coffin by pushing the
oppressive power to the side and doesn’t let anyone use her body for her
disadvantage. The vagina is given an identity rather than being just a hole and
the golden hair shows the lightening of the female and her flowing soul which
is free from the bounds of the binding. Get out there woman, don’t get hold
back in the jail of 8 am to 8 pm, be a woman. Yes, be a woman, know your fists,
know your strengths and your mind and show that three lettered sex that you are
still two letters ahead.
My readers, you should
understand that doing something new should not be a question to you. You are
here living this life now, what else will you do if not what your heart wants
and your mind says. Yeah you can do what everyone has been doing all along but
what changes will you then make? What is then the bloody purpose of your
existence? Please don’t suffer from an existential crisis after reading this.
My point is to tell you that slap someone who mistreats you, talk back to
people who try to make you feel inferior, argue whenever you want with whomever
who wish if you think you are right. Don’t lose, okay. Do whatever you want. Want
to smoke? Do it, want to drink? Why not! Want to make a boyfriend? Lose your
virginity? Have a lesbian experience? Please guys go ahead and do it. You only
have one life. For heaven’s sake don’t lose out only because someone else is
loading off their idiotic beliefs on you. Shove it aside and breathe the air of
freedom, it will be fresh and not stuffy like before I promise you. And yeah,
if you get beaten and thrown out of the house then khalo yaar 2 thappad, 2
raatein bahar guzarlo atleast you did what you wanted to do right. Be
independent and make your own rules, actually no, don’t make any rules. Just
live ;)
Deepali Yadav
Student
at Kamala Nehru College (DU)
Contact me @ deepaliyadav2896@gmail.com
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