A Little Stir

Sydney Morning Herald

Saturday January 2, 1993

SIR: Sometimes little men like to have a play with us, to "stir up the women".

However, Gordon Matheson (Letters, December 26) may not realise that simple folk from places not so sophisticated as Nambour, Queensland, do not always understand the joke. A couple of points should be clarified.

First, we must all realise that fame is usually determined not by skill or genius, but by media, publishers, patrons and other methods of control, which in Western history were male. Perhaps Mr Matheson missed viewing Completing The Picture: Women artists and The Heidelburg Era for one.

Second, the appreciation of women as bodies and faces is not perverse only if it is balanced with a recognition of their talents and intelligences also.

May we suspect from Mr Matheson's comments his real worry is that he is perhaps no David?

Bronwen Flintoff,

Armidale.

December 28

© 1993 Sydney Morning Herald

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