Comment on Where can I get cursed like that? Asking for a friend.

mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From artincontext.org/the-cursed-woman-painting-by-tas…

  The title can possibly refer to prejudices related to women and their open sexuality during the 1800s; in other words, a woman so open and free is “damned” because she is not chaste or coy.

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  • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hah, whoops, I edited this in before I saw your response! Same research!

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So basically it was the old “naughty”?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image
    [this is sartre]

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, just puritan bullshit. Appeal to male insecurity, too, at least the types that get upset at the idea of a woman having been touched by another man. And then those negative feelings get protected onto the woman, of course.

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