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“Men dream of Women
Women dream of themselves being dreamt ofMen look at Women
Women watch themselves being looked atWomen constantly meet glances wich act like mirrors, reminding them of how they look or how they should look
Behind every glance is a judgement
Sometimes the glance they meet is their own reflected back from a real manA woman is always a company to accept when quite alone perhaps even then by her own image of herself
While she is walking across a room or weeping at the death of her father she cannot avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping
From earliest childhood she is taught and persuaded to survey herself continually
She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to others and particularly how she appears to men is of crucial importance what is normally thought of as the success of her life”
John Berger, Ways of Seeing – BBC, 1972
“Quanto tempo può passare una femmina allo specchio
Senza danno fare alla donna
Senza poi lasciare il segno
O prima che lei ci lasci il senno?” * io, 2K17