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textualdeviance) wrote2006-04-04 10:04 pm
textualdeviance) wrote2006-04-04 10:04 pm
Go Tori!
From an interview with Rolling Stone:
It was very conscious with [2002's] Scarlet's Walk and The Beekeeper that I wanted to embody the Mother Maiden and core essences within the being -- because I find a lot of women, especially in this time of the right wing, don't know how to be spiritual and sexual. Either they're puritanical, or their tits are hanging out all the time -- that's been a real bee in my bonnet, the program that [tells women] to be sexual. To [counter] that, you have to be nasty. I grenade that idea right out of the water!
One side of yourself might be that vulgar tart, and I'll hang out with her. I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. That, to me, is playing into this role that women have held in Christianity for a long, long time. I refuse to be victimized by Christianity's misrepresentation of our great mothers. I want to be an integrated woman.
It was very conscious with [2002's] Scarlet's Walk and The Beekeeper that I wanted to embody the Mother Maiden and core essences within the being -- because I find a lot of women, especially in this time of the right wing, don't know how to be spiritual and sexual. Either they're puritanical, or their tits are hanging out all the time -- that's been a real bee in my bonnet, the program that [tells women] to be sexual. To [counter] that, you have to be nasty. I grenade that idea right out of the water!
One side of yourself might be that vulgar tart, and I'll hang out with her. I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. That, to me, is playing into this role that women have held in Christianity for a long, long time. I refuse to be victimized by Christianity's misrepresentation of our great mothers. I want to be an integrated woman.