Aliza Shvarts is an art student. An art student who, the Huffington Post reports, has, as part of her senior arts project plumbed new depths. Read.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself ‘as often as possible’ while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
I know I’m probably meant to be shocked by this, and I am, but it’s not the art that’s doing the shocking, it’s her disregard for life and the very womanhood she probably thinks she’s defending that shocks me.
Where does a woman’s body stop and another life start? It’s a big question and one that I could never hope to answer. Abortion is an emotive subject and rightly so but inseminating yourself in order to purposefully induce miscarriage a few months later just for shits and giggles is morally reprehensible.
I hold true the fact that a woman, just like a man, has the right to do whatever they want to their body, that right carries with it responsibility though. With this act she has treated the entire process of conception like it were a body piercing, something to be used to make a statement. It is deeply saddening.
This is not art. Neither is it self expression. It is mental illness.
This person cannot be for real but women have defeated their own purpose for a very long time in that they cannot see that by wanting to be ‘like men’ they are playing into the hands of men all the time.
‘I didn’t get the job because I’m a woman.’. No, you didn’t get the job ‘cos you are not good enough.
We must have women MPs, who incidentally have to be home by 5pm for nursery teas etc, if you can’t do the time don’t do the crime. Try something else like serving school dinners, if you are good enough pet!!!
Be true to yourself. That’s my motto, it’s not that easy all the time but if you can then you should.
Still back to the point, Miss Shvarts has now seen fit to be involved in a very bizarre retraction of sorts.
Whichever way you cut it, she’s nuts.
…makes no difference - that she thought it up is surely abhorrent.