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Sunday, July 17, 2022

No Regrets


When I first read this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge "Femme Fatale", I thought that I´d skip the challenge this week. But when I started thinking about the theme, I began to like it: 

Usually we associate Femme Fatale with a fin de siècle woman that is manipulating and seductive - characteristics that I hate from the bottom of my heart attributed to women who influenced famous men.
But of course those women that were labeled with this term have lived in times when women had no choice when they wanted to live their own life - they could only live it as an attribute to a man´s life. The term Femme Fatale is one that tells us of a male perspective - an adventurous woman is described as one that causes the (bad) fate of a man. We should change our perspective and see the woman who just wants to live her own life as a free and independent human being.

6 comments:

Mandy Chilvers said...

Fab Marion. We are lucky we can now be independent women and not be reliant on men

Deann said...

Yep, still wonderful.

Michele said...

well stated commentary and beautiful art! xo

Anne (cornucopia) said...

I'm glad you participated, because this is fantastic. Well written post, too.

Sim said...

I love your words and your image Marion!
I'm with Anne, I'm glad too that you participate.
And I salute you very low. Bravo!

Renee Zarate said...

So true! Isn’t it wonderful to not have those restrictions?! Love your artwork