Posted on 01/04/2021 6:52:17 PM PST by TigerClaws
Glass ceilings and phallic towers. Mean streets and dark alleys. Road names and statues of men. From the physical to the metaphorical, the city is filled with reminders of masculine power. And yet we rarely talk of the urban landscape as an active participant in gender inequality. A building, no matter how phallic, isn’t actually misogynist, is it? Surely a skyscraper isn’t responsible for sexual harassment, the wage gap, or even the glass ceiling, whether it has a literal one up top or not?
That said, our built environments can still reflect patterns of gender-based discrimination. To imagine the city and its structures as neutral places where complicated human social relations are staged is to ignore the simple fact that people built these places. As the feminist geographer Jane Darke has said: “Our cities are patriarchy written in stone, brick, glass and concrete.” In other words, cities reflect the norms of the societies that build them. And sexism is a deep-rooted norm.
As far back as 1977, an American poet and professor of architecture named Dolores Hayden wrote an article with the explosive headline “Skyscraper seduction, skyscraper rape”. Hayden tore into the male power fantasies embodied in this celebrated urban form. The office tower, she wrote, is one more addition “to the procession of phallic monuments in history – including poles, obelisks, spires, columns and watchtowers”, where architects un-ironically use the language of “base, shaft and tip” while drawing upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating light into the night sky.
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Ironic that she has a first name that rhymes with a part of the female anatomy.
These people need to be under supervision.
Mulva?
Mulva?
Sexist?
Are we supposed to build vaginas into the sky?
Can these people get more absurd?
Great. She can be fixated on upward thrusting buildings that are ejaculating. Me? I’ll keep my fixations open to wade gaping subways.
Oooh.
SOMEBODY needs to get laid.
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... which you would think would be womanly ...
Pornopolis
Wow someone has lack of sex on their mind (the author, not poster)
I could go for some boob towers.
Then she’d really flip out if she found out what the Grand Tetons were named after.
OK, I thought I knew every anatomically-correct and gender-invented word of slang it could be called. I even created a few myself. So, tell us how a female’s cooter can be called anything resembling a ‘Delores’.
Well, there is a big hole built in Ellis County (Texas, y'all) where the Super Conducting Super Collided was to be.
They grow mushrooms in it now.
A barrel of Vagisil could resolve that.
We can all live and work in basements.
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Good Grief!
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