From: bad language
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 16 August 2004
I must say all this bad language is not very pleasant. I feel you may misunderstand Mr Miller. His "cunts" are not metaphorical names for women. His is an attempt to show things as they are, to get away from the general, his list shows the variety and particularity of vaginas, of course part of an individual women, but also separate, a physical thing in themself, and thus drawn into Miller's obsessive listing of the world as experienced through the senses. He radically moves away from the sexist reduction of all women into cunts, as opposed to advertising and society which impose norms on everything from how we should think to how our genitals should be: shaven, neat, symmetrical. Miller's is a rich world of people, things, and yes cunts, but they are not a nasty name for women, they are just something that interests him in their multiplicity.
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