MUTILATION RESPONSE TO MYTH
THE CHASTITY BELT
"A barbaric custom became an erotic object for men." This sentence is obviously written in past, as the verb tense shows.
"Tormentil is used to resist putrification " Another "always happening fact", also in present.
AFECTED FUNCTION
Sexual Intercourse
"Impeded or enforced but taken away from her. Rape and sexual violence
became a punishment for women's sexuality, her sexual freedom, her
promiscuity." We can see marks of the past in the verbs, such as taken
and became.
"Tormentil stops spitting and pissing blood " this is in present, the same as the facts before.
"In 1836 the body of Sarah Jewett, a prostitute, was discovered dead.
She had been struck on the head by a hatchet. It was a murder that
gripped New York City because of sex, money power, position and class.
In spite of strong circumstantial evidence: his cloak in the brothel
and the hatchet in his back yard, the jury freed Richard P. Robinson
after 10 minutes of deliberation. " In this textt, a year is given,
1836, and past verb tenses are used, so it is obviously a text in the
past.
CURRENT MUTILATION -The "current" word specifies that what is gonna be told is something that happens now.
MURDER STALKS SAN FRANCISCO PROSTITUTES
"Kimberly Bragg lies in a coma, watched over by her parents. She was
beaten and left for dead." It is talking about a present acction, that
happens because something in the past happened before.
"In 1949, the U.N. passed a convention paper that called for the
decriminalization of prostitution and the enforcement of law against
those who exploit women and children in prostitution. The paper was
read in the U.U. General Assambly by Eleanor Roosvelt and was ratified
by more than 50 countries, but not the United States." This whole text
makes a reference of something that took place in a relatively near
past, And there, we can see the correlation of the actions. Firstly the
paper was written, then read and eventually voted. It also give us the
year where it all happened.
"Mary Powers accused Judge James L. Stevens of sexual harassment saying
he handed her an "over-ripe" penis-shaped zucchini and fired her
without cause." This as the one before, is a near past action, we can
guess it because this text comes with a picture, and because Mary
Powers, the woman who was fired was actually working out of home.
- The second mith is about Hemlock:
All the pieces of text that appear from the first until the "Afected
Function" part of the hemlock, are facts written in present as they are
supposed to be always the same way.
For exemple:
"Hemlock is almost like the stems of dragons "
"Hemlock grows in shadows near ditches "
or "When a woman thinks alone she thinks evil"
The following part, the one titled "Afected Function. Altered or repressed thinking" uses again a past reference.
In Current mutilation we can find again a reference to the near past. Actually it talks about Woody Allen and his ex-wife.