ART & Respect for Women

Well said Mike. To realize just how far we are out of kilter, simply comnsider that "allomothering" (aunt behaviour in females; care for infants other than one's own in general) is a fundamental, probably hard-wired, behavioural trait in social primates such as Great Apes and Homo sapiens.  
 
With human beings this holds substantially in relation to our immediate family , suburb and town (although the 2007 Australian Northern Territory Little Children are Sacred Report indicates that 34% of Australian women and 24% of American women are subject to childhood sexual abuse) but progressively declines as we go national (e.g. in Australia in relation to Indigenous children for whom the infant death rate is over 3 times that of white Australians) and international (9.6 MILLION avoidable under-5 year old infant deaths EACH YEAR on Spaceship Earth with George Bush, the world's #1 terrorist , at the helm). 
 
What can decent folk do in the face of this horror? Mike is correct - TEACH OTHERS, INFORM OTHERS, spread the Woman-respecting "memes" (ideas, values, traditions) to make up for deficiencies in our DNA-constructed "genes" (as Professor Richard Dawkins would out it).  
 
In my Scheherazade painting (and others e.g. Truelove, Qana, Truelove, my Manhattan, Sydney and Melbourne Madonna paintings - see links in the article or vis the link below) I try to use ART ("chacun a son gout", "each to his own") to enhance Respect for Woman, for Women's Rights and for Mother and Child.

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