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Redemption
in many societies, women are seen as being closer to nature than men, who are considered more cultivated than women. like nature, women are regarded as undomesticated, wild and difficult to control. therefore they represent danger (to men) and must be domesticated.
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The chair sitting empty in that brutalized field does something cleaner than the statement above it—it marks absence without explaining it, lets the landscape do the work of alienation instead of spelling out the gender thesis. But I’m curious why you’ve positioned the chair as the thing that’s been “domesticated” here rather than the men themselves, given the context about hunting and food preparation—is the emptiness meant to show what’s missing from them, or what they’ve expelled?
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