Don’t watch crime dramas at 6.35am
Note to self: don’t watch crime dramas at 6.35am. A
dramatization of an abduction of a young woman by a man in a balaclava is not
the best way to start the day. It’s a cold mid Spring morning, the sun only
just up, the birds playing a glass marimba on the air. & still this poem in
prose has not started. Perhaps it’s a longer piece which will take more time to
develop momentum? Schubert’s Death & the Maiden plays on an op shop cd
through his late mother’s, then late father’s mini hifi. So, a morning & a
piece about killing & abducting women. A photograph on my social media feed
yesterday of a woman who’d had a mastectomy, both breasts removed, which,
discussed, sounds traumatic, but the photo of survival looked strong &
brave. Just one thing though: her genitalia had been blurred out to please
Instagram & the dominant powers that if we are prevented from showing human
bodies in full, it is easier for people to accept rapings & killings of
people as part of the video game of life. Of course, much porn exists on the
internet. According to Max Sometimes there is now more porn than it is possible
to watch. But of course with porn, a lot of that is female anal penetration
& again, the vagina is not shown, except as a receptacle for the actor/s penetrating
her/them. In short a confronting start to the morning, but necessary to
confront, when one acknowledges that we have developed from a people who walked
publicly naked but now must clothe – partial nudity is celebrated, yet full
nudity is not. & when it applies to women, that the degrees of nudity are
made to please the misogynist who lusts after the breasts of the mother but is
terrified of knowing the wife’s vagina, as anything other than a hole to
ejaculate into.
Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2024.
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