Women are placed on a paradoxical pedestal of unsupported expectations.Show some skin but not too much, otherwise you’re asking for it. Don’t show skin, and you’re a prude.
Assertiveness and ambition is encouraged yet condemned as bossiness, and the expectation of being taken seriously remains elusive.
Here is a reflection of how women are subjected to censorship and control, whether it’s through limitations on behavior or restrictions
on bodily autonomy. Here, a woman is reduced to a mere spectacle — an object of voyeuristic gaze.
Unbeknownst, we too become participants in this cycle, layering our own judgments onto a taped-up figure on the wall.
Each opinion, command, and assumption—crafted by those oblivious to the complexities they impose.