Posted on 11/15/2021 2:44:40 AM PST by Kaslin
The Smithsonian Museum, the American Louvre of unusual artifacts, has a collection of toys. One is a transparent plastic figure called "The Visible Woman." She has as her companion "The Visible Man." The see-through educational toys were designed to teach children about human anatomy.
Larger transparent models of human beings were designed to teach medical students. One such figure is of a woman. Made in 1980 in Dresden, in what was then East Germany, the medical Eve could well be accompanied by the transparent model of an Adam created in Germany in 1933.
Both models were designed by scientists living in regimes dominated by reductionist ideas about what it meant to be a human being — the one obsessed with the idea of the perfect Aryan, the other gripped by the idea of the perfect communist.
Behind the colorless plastic skins are the innards necessary to any functioning human life. Male and female, each has similar essential inner parts, including a heart. Their lack of skin color denotes that human anatomy does not depend on skin tone, ethnicity or class. She represents the universal woman. He represents the universal man. Her anatomy is every woman's anatomy. His anatomy is every man's anatomy.
There is no reason to categorize either according to skin tone. She is not a woman "of color," as racial categorists would insist. But she also is not a woman without color.
Recently, racial categorization has eliminated the universally understood meaning of "woman." It has become popular to speak of "women of color," which means women who don't have white skin. By using that term, instantly, countless millions of women and girls are paled into insignificance. They are regarded as having no color at all.
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I had those visible man and woman models when I was a kid. You could pop off the front of the torso and take the organs out. Quite educational.
But limited.
I had to get hold of a REAL girl to find out about the parts the model left out!
My dad was the least prejudice man I have ever known.
He used to tell us, God made us all. We all bleed red.
He loved everyone.
These models show, all the same on the inside.
We all bleed red.
Yes we do. All humans bleed red
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