Peter Max Illustration (1970)

Me on the first date

seeking, yearning, reaching hands

Not ready yet.

Wassily Kandinsky, “Dance Curves,” 1926

Mens reactions to a story about women being brutally raped while on vacation in Dubai. It shouldn’t surprise me anymore but it always does.

Men are happy enough to share these comments on a public platform, with their real name and photo of themselves. But we are meant to believe they give a shit about consent? We are meant to believe they view women as fully people? Women get condemned for being naive, but what young person isn’t naive and trusting, who doesn’t want to have a good time on holiday? Nothing is said about the men who attack us and rape us.

Malachite

Woman Reading Under A Tree, c. 1930. Emile Delobre. Oil on Board.

art by Stanislav Holý (1978)