{"id":203,"date":"2014-07-30T11:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T15:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2015-01-05T03:30:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T07:30:33","slug":"the-measure-of-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"The Measure of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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[A guest entry by Althea Georgelas]<\/em><\/p>\n

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“I am ashamed that women are so simple<\/i>
\nTo offer war where they should kneel for peace
\nOr seek for rule, supremacy, and sway
\nWhen they are bound to serve, love and obey.”<\/p>\n

– Katherine, “The Taming of the Shrew”<\/p>\n

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A woman is made up of a body.<\/p>\n

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These bodies have created 2000 generations of the human race.<\/p>\n

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These bodies are smaller in size than other bodies.<\/p>\n

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Easier to take…<\/p>\n

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control of.<\/p>\n

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Do women own these bodies?<\/p>\n

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Can women protect these bodies?<\/p>\n

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“That which cannot be secured isn’t owned.” <\/em><\/p>\n

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Maybe.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes…<\/p>\n

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No.<\/p>\n

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Is this why some women want to be bigger?<\/p>\n

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Would power be equal if all bodies
\nwere comparable in size and strength?<\/p>\n

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Does it matter?<\/p>\n

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Maybe.<\/p>\n

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Stem cell research could allow women to one day
\ncreate their own sperm from these bodies.<\/p>\n

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Women could engineer these bodies
\nbiologically and mechanically….<\/p>\n

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to be equal in size and strength to any threat.<\/p>\n

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Would these bodies then be their own?<\/p>\n

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But maybe this divide would create two separate races entirely\u2026equal in power.<\/p>\n

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And one would be pitted against the other\u2026<\/p>\n

forever.<\/p>\n

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Then again\u2026<\/p>\n

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Maybe these bodies could be engineered by others.<\/p>\n

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To be perfect.<\/p>\n

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A race of dolls.<\/p>\n

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Or maybe\u2026<\/p>\n

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One day the control of these bodies,
\nusing violence, terror and politics…<\/p>\n

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which has spanned the length of human history
\nwithin all ethnicities and creeds…<\/p>\n

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will just stop.<\/p>\n

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And the daughters of these bodies will not bear this fear anymore.<\/p>\n

This war was brought to OUR bodies.<\/p>\n

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We will teach our children well.<\/p>\n

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Known credits: Dying Amazon<\/em> by Franz Von Stuck, Blond and Gagged<\/em> by David Nestler, Illustration by John Copeland, Map of My Body<\/em> by Tatiana Parcero, Men and Women Fighting <\/em>by George Clair Tooker, Jr., The Broken Column<\/em> by Frida Kahlo, Woman Tending her Spirit<\/em> by Renee Rhodes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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