Women aren’t allowed to be intense in the way Sinead was. They are allowed to be beautiful or mysterious or passionate or happy or sad and a million other things but never intense. Her kind of harsh intensity is celebrated in men but not women. Why?
Such a good point Rols. The simple answer is the patriarchal system is so deeply embedded in our communal psyche that female intensity is always considered confronting - or crazy or pathetic or laughable or even ‘complicated’ - because it breaks with what we are raised to expect from women.
Women aren’t allowed to be intense in the way Sinead was. They are allowed to be beautiful or mysterious or passionate or happy or sad and a million other things but never intense. Her kind of harsh intensity is celebrated in men but not women. Why?
Such a good point Rols. The simple answer is the patriarchal system is so deeply embedded in our communal psyche that female intensity is always considered confronting - or crazy or pathetic or laughable or even ‘complicated’ - because it breaks with what we are raised to expect from women.