Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Rape of the Lock.

Sexual assault cannot be explained away by geography, morality, emotionality, causality nor by anodyne reportage, that allows readers to skim and move on with their own lives. Sexual violence and abuse are primal and despicable it is easy to denounce them in terms of morality, religiosity than to actually engage with them. They defy historicity, context and the narrative of human progress. They are luminal, suspended, beyond the reach of articulation. Predicated upon cornerstones of morality, anything remotely related to sexuality is always exciting press and news but it is a fine line – you don’t want to offend sensibilities. Clueless people think that talking about experiences of rape help the victims to “get over” it. It can never be therapeutic! The experience of violence constitutes their very beings, their identities, their sexuality. At best it affords some navigability through a maelstrom s which holds no “rationale” escape or solace. The real story is one about silence which seriously metamorphoses into strength or culpability. Their minds may hold the narratives at the Foucauldian nightmare bur the bodies bear the scars and memories. Do they need validation for complying with the hetro – patriarchal system with its fascist, aesthetic laws that categorically elides the stories that these scarred bodies tell – or how do they transpose the stories of their bodies, their corporeality, into the realms of the minds, making it more palatable an abstract matter of societal morals and justice.

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