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Introduction to The V dialogues!
Introduction to The V dialogues!ID: CC5-148

I have to begin the presentation of this (2015-2016) series (which contains only 10 graphic images) with a disappointing note: due to the murky waters of whether I am allowed to present these images unblurred, for safety reasons I have decided to keep them blurred; so, I understand that this ruins the humor of the presentation, but for now the arousing parts will remain blurred. What are the blurred parts? Various women's reproductive and back end organs: pictured, they resemble an i, l, or ! – depending on which way you flip the image. I simply took the sexual organs that she is posing with, then, I insert the pictures of the characters into the social commentary about her phony liberation. But again, the deliberate blurring of the images ruins the intended humor.... If you are familiar with V's work from the late 1990s, you'd know right away that this is my mockery of her most famous work. However, while hers is a written monologue, here in my artwork I insist that the discussion about her self-obsession is a dialogue between women and men; and it is not hidden as a monologue, because her sexual behavior is not free to be independent when she shares the planet with man. In other words, all of women's and men's interactions and connections have to be on par with each other, effective, and mutual. In the late 1980s and the early 1990s, the 3rd wave “feminism” started to divert in the wrong direction by starting to obsess with the female individuality. Imagine if instead the 3rd wave started to obsess with woman becoming an effective partner to man! If that had happened, the dynamics between women and men today may be quite different, and today's women and men may actually behave like normal people toward each other! But unfortunately it didn't happen that way, and our dysfunctional culture continues to approve and perpetuate the repressive neuroticism of women who are looking inward, not outward; women who are looking and waiting to be loved, but not giving the love themselves to man.... In my nonfiction and semi-autobiographical books about the faulty interactions and connections between women and men, I discuss widely why women's liberation is not something independent of her need to be an effective interactor and connector to man.... So, instead of providing real kindness and sociability in her interactions with men, and real love and intimacy to the man of her attraction, let's discuss the problem with her posing for the camera.

I can pose and do whatever the hell I wanna do 'cause I am the 3rd wave!
I can pose and do whatever the hell I want to do 'cause I am the 3rd wave!

Yes-yes, of course, you should do whatever the hell you want to do, because you live in a free and liberated society, right?

I define women by posing… unfortunately!
I define women by posing... unfortunately!

But that is only today... until women begin to dissolve their contemporary inward-looking behaviors, and rerouting them to be outward-looking, kind, sociable, and loving behaviors.

I objectify myself, yet I blame men for objectifying me!
I objectify myself, yet I blame men for objectifying me!

The self-sexism is quite pervasive in our contemporary dysfunctional culture.

In loving memory of the “2nd sex!”
In loving memory of the “2nd sex!”

Yes, without a kind, sociable, and loving personality, the woman is left as only a body to be desired.

Love me only for what I present!
Love me only for what I present!

Yes, we'll do... until the outwardly-looking personality begins to surface.

My “2nd sex” skill!
My “2nd sex” skill!

Yes, we know.

Patriarchy made me do it!
Patriarchy made me do it!

Oh really!? Say who? The 3rd wave “feminism?” Patriarchy (the rule of men), is more accurately described as, excessive masculinity. Excessive masculinity has dissolved throughout the ages quite a bit. Men's behaviors today are more mild than ever before. But women's excessive femininity? It's still approved by culture as a normality!

Posing is my “2nd sex” skill!
Posing is my “2nd sex” skill!

Oh, thank you for reminding all the women and men... who are still waiting to see a kind, sociable, and loving personality – that begins to dissolve the “2nd sex.”

Sadly, it's my only skill!
Sadly, it's my only skill!

In a dysfunctional culture in which love is not normalized, posing becomes scarce and profitable.

Sadly, the object of desire is my best skill!
Sadly, the object of desire is my best skill!

It will take a brand new culture to breed new behaviors and to start relying on her outwardly-going love as opposed to inwardly-looking and expecting love from others.

Spell out my problem again?
Spell out my problem again?

This image is actually from another project (Spell out my problem again?). But the only reason I decided to bring it in here, is because of the password protection that I have included in this series. This image is again, deliberately blurred, because each letter is composed of various female reproductive organs, and I don't know how that would digest with the internet rules and regulations. The blurring ruins the image to some extent, so let me clarify: The self-loving “second sex” woman is asking: “Spell out my problem again?” Sure! I'll spell out your selfish problem! (She didn't even know that she was selfish, so I clarify it on the image.) So, I am answering her question through what she was posing with: her sexual body parts, where each letter is composed of her sexual organs that she relies on to obsess about herself. As I don't have time to detail an entire commentary about her exploitative sexually arousing tactics (because I am not typing letters, but I am composing images to resemble letters), my answer to her is just in simple words: posing, submissive, object of seduction, passive tease(r), flirtatious idiot...! Maybe one day in the future, she will learn how to open up herself to be a normal lover to man, not an obsessive and repressive neurotic who waits to be loved... but we are not there yet; that culture hasn't arrived yet to dissolve her “second sex” persona.