Why did it end with mutilation and alienation?
When it comes to FGM, Greer's mistake seems to confuse female genital decoration with mutilation.
Rufus, his unpopular son, introduced harsh penalties for those living nearby who broke the forest law – with mutilation or even death as punishment for poaching or taking wood.
Ulay's art, until then, had consisted primarily of Polaroid self-portraits that documented his experiments with mutilation — piercing, circumcision, tattoos — and an obsession with twinship: a male/female duality.
But that night, in the inky blackness in Kilinochchi, all these other things began to merge together: politics, history, even sex, in the form of Miss Saraswati, where it was bound up with mutilation and death.
They've had some bad press lately: first, GQ's September issue awarded a cover for each band member, lighting the match for an online bushfire that had the editorial team threatened with mutilation.
Exceptions include Wifredo Lam, whose imagery was always closer to magical than surreal; Alberto Giacometti, who evolved a highly personal reductivism out of Surrealism's obsession with mutilation; and Rene Magritte, whose timeless perceptual conundrums transcend period and style.
In saying that, I don't mean to cast aspersions on the Cronenberg family bloodline but only to point out that in his first feature, "Antiviral," the 33-year-old Brandon Cronenberg exhibits the same obsession with mutilation and infection as his father, David, did in movies like "Crash" and "The Fly".
Meanwhile, the harrowing stream of daily news items carried on: gang rapes; child rapes; rapes of middle-class women and domestic workers; rapes of men; rapes with murder; rapes with mutilation; rapes on auto rickshaws, at construction sites, in private homes.
That entailed "corpse pounding" with large rocks, Darling says, coupled with mutilation and chopping up the body.
Stephen Evans explores the twisted world of Grimm's Fairy Tales – bedtime stories complete with mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide and incest.
