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I don't know where to begin with this bizarre Venn diagram. Our options are bitch, slut and....mom? With nun/virgin as the ultimate combination of womanly virtues? Your analysis?
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April 2, 2010
The virgin/whore dichotomy - as Venn diagram
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To be honest, I found myself nodding along as I read this. That really is how some guys see women. It's unfortunate to say the least.
Not sure if this is meant to be a tongue-in-cheek but serious diagram, or a diagram lampooning the labelling of women, but either way, the WTFness of the labels sort of ruins it. How come sluts can't be clever? Who decided that all bitches were hot, or all mums were smart? And the nun is particularly confusing. I can see the 'nice' part (but people who've been to disciplinarian catholic schools may disagree) but nuns aren't always smart or particularly often hot. In a system where women are praised for 'putting out' at convenient times, it's odd that the ultimate form of womanhood is a celibate one.
Overexplaining the joke horribly, of course, but you sort of have to when the joke doesn't make sense.
This reminds me of a book called "Ophelia" which was basically Hamlet's tale of woe as retold from Ophelia's POV. In it, she is a smart, brave lady whom Hamlet loves for her wit and intelligence, as fucked up as he himself is. Spoiler alert: She ends up running away to a nunnery after he's sent off to England, and the nuns there have a conversation about whether God likes women to be virgins all their lives or not. As the kickass Mother Superior points out, if every woman remained a virgin, "there'd be no more virgins born!"
Heehee. So in other words, nuns rock. And virginity is no longer a prerequisite for religious life.
The innermost link should be "perfect", not "nun"
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