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TheEndingSpoiled OP t1_iufoue9 wrote

Based on Gustave Vigeland's statue of the same namd

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esotericenema t1_iufviy8 wrote

Every man feels like doing this every once in a while, in one particular context or another. Unless they have some seriously unhealthy issues.

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esotericenema t1_iug8rho wrote

Replying to MiniITXEconomy (#366,257)

In very broad terms, I was referring to allowing oneself to be vulnerable to a woman, yes. And I simply said, essentially, that it is within man's nature to want that on occasion, in one form or another. I didn't say every man gets the opportunity to fullfill every such inclination or even that he should take up every such opportunity when presented to him. Only that to literally be devoid of any such inclination whatsoever strikes me as very unhealthy.

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LateMiddleAge t1_iugaiu8 wrote

Thank you for using 'woman' in the title.

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Cash907 t1_iugbh6r wrote

Is that what kids these days are calling it, “embracing?”

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Dwestmor1007 t1_iugfe9s wrote

I think they are probably roommates

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sinr_88 t1_iugo5xs wrote

Zookeeper! Zookeeper! Those monkeys are killing each other... Ohhhh

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Morpheous-999 t1_iuh04sn wrote

I love this statue. Ig it depicts how broken a man can be that almost makes him fall down and holds the only thing that can makes him whole(in here, a woman). It symbolises love and pain according to me.

I find myself getting comfortable by looking at it.

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z0mb t1_iuh9qvj wrote

I know you've had a few silly answers but just to put an interpretation on this, it kinda evokes that he is sad because he wants her emotionally but that she's only interested in sexual gratification. She's pushing him at her crotch, he's almost weeping, squeezing her legs out of despair. Powerful stuff!

edit: I think its pretty fucking cool

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Drednox t1_iuhpixn wrote

Looks like he's begging her to stay, but she's having none of it.

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z0mb t1_iuhtm7k wrote

Replying to PlumCantaloupe (#378,760)

I definitely get more of what you're saying from the original statue, but with this particular piece I get more of what I said.

That is to say in the statue I think she's pulling away more, where as I don't see that here. If anything it's almost like she's pulling him in by the hair.

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TheEndingSpoiled OP t1_iui86vu wrote

Replying to z0mb (#376,200)

I love this interpretation! When I first saw the statue I sorta had the feeling there was a bit of repulsion but I think looking at her face I get the sense that she pities him. In my head cannon for the drawing I loosened her arms and she just doesn't know what to do when confronted with this man who needs someone so she pushes away.

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TheEndingSpoiled OP t1_iuisrlg wrote

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esotericenema t1_iujbbkn wrote

Replying to _PVRDVE (#389,128)

I understand that too, but without going to the extreme of crying, necessarily, you do want your woman to have your back, right? To support you, in some sense, that if that support was sudden removed, it would be like pulling a rug right out from under your feet, especially emotionally. That's a kind of vulnerability, you know. Vulnerability to betrayal and what not. I feel like this piece encompasses ALL of that. Just a man's general desire to want some kind of true intimacy (which is inherently a vulnerability, by definition) with what one might call the "divine feminine." In other words, for some mysterious reason, I don't just not want to be stabbed in the back by my woman; but I want to give her the power to stab me in the back, in the first place (even when I don't necessarily have to do that) and then have her proceed to not stab me in the back, because she actually loves me, you know?

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