posted by [identity profile] leiacat.livejournal.com at 06:52pm on 2004-12-27
Thanks, but (no pun intended) I draw a line at this one. I'm perfectly fine with human body, but being required to do 6 years of drawing (anything) at school would probably have sent me pretty close to slitting my wrists.
 
posted by [identity profile] darwiniacat.livejournal.com at 06:58pm on 2004-12-27
No, as somebody who has had more than 50 combined stitches or staples in her wrists I can tell you that it takes a lot more than drawing to be pushed that far!

However, it would still take a society that did much more than just draw a naked body in art class.
 
posted by [identity profile] leiacat.livejournal.com at 07:14pm on 2004-12-27
It takes more than that for you. But I am _not_ graphically inclined, and every "art" class that I was ever required to take was sheer torture to me. The idea of having had to go through 6 years of it, no way to get out, is enough to make me whimper now, and I'm quite a few years out of school.

Everyone has different breaking points. Just because _yours_ don't involve nightmares about being forced to be visually artistic doesn't mean that holds for everyone. And vice versa - I am sure that at least some of whatever things that caused _you_ to do what you did are hardly blips on the radars of a number of people.

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