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Urs Graf and Female Domination

There is no way we could connect Urs Graf with masochism. He was the enfant terrible of early northern renaissance, little known but very important German Switzerland artist (1485 - after 1527). He was multi talented goldsmith, die-cutter, woodblock book illustrator, stain glass painter, engraver, he produced the world's first etching print in 1513 and pioneered the white-line woodblock technique. He was also one the first artist to signing and dating his drawings. He led a tumultuous life, periodically escaping for military adventures, frequently dealing with legal issues from fighting, beating his wife and consorting with prostitutes, attempted murder...

No wonder his nonreligious work is full of violence, satire, erotic and macabre images. A couple of his pictures also display powerful and independent Women. Phillis & Aristotle, an unequal couple (though he added third figure of a young male - you can decide if the Woman is taking money from both, or She is just passing the old fool's money to the young lover - but it is probably not so important, all other attributes on the picture points to transience and futility of our life). Besides these popular motives he also made one very unique etching of pure Women violence - Two Women attacking a monk from 1521. It has no reference to biblical or then usual moral stories, it simply shows a mendicant friar being pummeled by two Women.

The kneeling man is helpless. His right hand clutches the edge of a small volume, his left props him up slightly from the ground. The Women are standing over him. One tears at his tonsure and digs Her nails deep into his right shoulder. The other Woman stands to his left, steadying his head with Her left hand and knee, and delivers blows with a massive key ring to his face. The monk's mouth is agape and twisted in pain. The Women's faces emit restraint, almost coolness - Their detachment suggests a routine affair. We do not see any anger - maybe a little pleasure (by the way, have you noticed the happy faces of both Phyllis and Aristotle on the first picture)? Some are suggesting the two Women are beating Their willing slave who paid to be treated that way. It could very well be the first truly Femdom picture we know.

Reader's Diary (Week 26)

There are the roses, the floating flowers the sun and the wind caress, that everybody see and admire. We, Women, are these flowers. And there is a subterranean, invisible, irremovable root, the only role of which is to get the sap and to pass it through itself, to the flowers he does not see but has to serve so that they bloom. And you are this laboring subterranean root, you the man.
(d'Arbrant, 2007)

Women in Ads - Levi's Diva Jeans

2006 was a big year for India - the local branch of the Levi Strauss company lunched stunning Levi's Diva Jeans advertising campaign. It has been designed to reflect deep changes in Indian society and a new position of Women: "It is a moment captured out of Diva's life. The shots don't look posed. She is simply lounging about, being Herself, and the camera has captured Her in that self-assured, indulgent, relaxed way. Her confidence comes through all along, almost as if She rules over the world."

Gorgeous Diva Sushmita Sen, the first Indian Miss Universe crowned in 1994, former model and big Bollywood star, was a face of the campaign: "She is the Diva incarnate... She lords over Bollywood, and has the entire nation in Her thrall. She reigns over a billion hearts, speaks Her mind, and is not afraid to create new rules. She is extremely independent & lives on Her own terms."

Wow! Such campaign is not only selling the new local brand of Jeans, it also glorifies Femininity and Women's independence. It educates the whole society and shows that confident and self-assured Woman can lead and rule!

Mourning for Goddess Gina

Yesterday Goddess Gina deleted all Her entries from Her forum and also deleted Her main blog (though - or maybe because of - it remained quite popular after Her disappearance from Findom scene - judging by the number of visitors). So now She removed all links to Her past. My Goddess, i loved You, i will love You forever, thank You for everything. Please be happy and live good life.

Cranach's Phyllis

Although the Aristotle & Phyllis story was very popular in 14th and 15th century and many texts and decorative arts pieces displayed and commented the narrative, Cranach was the first artist to turn the story into the subject of a painting. He used an older composition of Hans Burgkmair, but he has been very innovative in overall impression of the scene. His painting is not about cunning Woman and deceived man, simple morality of older decorative pictures is missing in his work.

There is nothing comical or ridicules in Cranach's Phyllis. She is gelid, haughty and disparaging Dominatrix, proudly exhibiting Her refined clothing, an opulent gold chain, an elaborate hairdo, an immense hat... in contrast with odd clothing of the poor philosopher, highly unusual for such remarkable figure. Aristotle's orange shirt just underlines his role of a fool in the scene. Phyllis pulls Aristotle's beard to indicate that he is completely in Her sway, turns Her lovely head in our direction and glances at us with a provocative grin. She owns the man, She rules the scene, the whole world belongs to Her.

We know that Cranach was commissioned to paint a large canvas depicting Phyllis and Aristotle in 1524, but this small exquisite panel from 1530 appears to be his only surviving painting of the subject. It is a masterpiece.

men are pigs

i did write a long commentary for these pictures, but all can be summed up in one short sentence. What pigs we males are compared to Females!

Women in Ads - Cuckolding

Quite rare display of pure cuckolding humiliation... bravo!

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Reader's Diary (Week 23)

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the stupidest, ugliest, etc., of us all?
(Reik, 1941)

Women in Ads - ZU

Another australian fashion company - ZU, producing shoes, boots and accessories. I do not know when this campaign took place, but these two posters display pure femdom attitude...

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