Love and Violence – Body and Machine

There are many aspects through which the vast subject of feminism can be explored. And there are also multiple issues that feminism has not yet thoroughly covered.

Going back to Lonzi's phrase that indicates perfect equality in love, it can be said that one of the topics that have not yet been thoroughly explored is precisely this: love.

So mundane, but perhaps also extremely crucial in order not only to understand the dynamics of women and men in their different life paths, but also to understand other factors linked to the intimacy that love generates between two individuals.

The acts of violence, which, unfortunately, are perpetrated against women almost every day, are still inconceivable.

Why all this continues to be a sick normality should be investigated precisely within the sphere of intimacy, in the love unleashed by that intimacy and which in the long run causes shortcomings and dystopias.

Man has always perceived women with fear: an unmanageable and generating force that they feel the need to subdue, believing it to be too powerful compared to the “stronger sex” which, instead, only assumes a marginal role in the reproductive process.

This fear, this helplessness in front of women, who are however neither submissible nor controllable, causes men to lose those beliefs that have always led them to think they hold specific rights towards the other sex.

It is this fear that triggers violence.

Examining the couple, intimacy and therefore love is essential to probe and understand those mechanisms that still lead to otherwise incomprehensible violence.

Actually, giving a more in-depth analysis of the experience of pregnancy, it would be better to state that, more than a mechanical process, it resembles a cognitive one.

Even in the latter we allow something to grow inside within us, an idea and, as in childbirth, we let it emerge by detaching ourselves from it in a sort of alienation.

This is how the cognitive process, in a similar way to the reproductive one, carries the species forward.

In a society like ours, mechanics have given way to creativity and this creativity should be encouraged to lead to improvement.

Once again, starting from a reflection whose focus appears to be women, speculation leads to several other aspects of social, economic and emotional life.

All this further demonstrates that the life experience of women, regarded for centuries only as machines, as an organism that gives and must give life, is needed to develop a society capable of improving itself in every aspect and to take flight, moving away from those standards still bound to the patriarchy.