Roe v. Wade was a court case about the right to have an abortion. However, overturning this case led to personal consequences for people who can get pregnant, and immediate reactions have been visible. Reactions have been posted all over social media. Many claimed to have experienced ghost period cramps, nausea and sometimes headaches.
Naysayers and criticizers soon took action, naming these strong responses as crazy and telling them that they are just overreacting. For many emotional people over the world, this criticism isn’t something new. Emotions are often criticized and labeled as overreaction.
One person has turned to a famous painting in the late 17th century, called “The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons”, made by Jacques-Louis David. It shows Roman consuls sitting as his “servants” bring in the corpses of a consul’s two sons. The consul had executed them for treason. On the right, grieving women represent the dangers of letting feelings get the best of you, as the story goes.
However, some people can’t help but look back at the grieving women. They start to think that perhaps, the women are the ones protecting the rest of the crowd by “bearing the emotional burden for everyone else”, as said by the Washington Post.
In other words, the grieving women were brave to show emotions.
If we are able to learn anything from this painting, which symbolizes pushing criticism away and leaving emotions in the spotlight, then it is that we can encourage people to not bottle up their emotions. Then, the world will be a better place.
Naysayers and criticizers soon took action, naming these strong responses as crazy and telling them that they are just overreacting. For many emotional people over the world, this criticism isn’t something new. Emotions are often criticized and labeled as overreaction.
One person has turned to a famous painting in the late 17th century, called “The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons”, made by Jacques-Louis David. It shows Roman consuls sitting as his “servants” bring in the corpses of a consul’s two sons. The consul had executed them for treason. On the right, grieving women represent the dangers of letting feelings get the best of you, as the story goes.
However, some people can’t help but look back at the grieving women. They start to think that perhaps, the women are the ones protecting the rest of the crowd by “bearing the emotional burden for everyone else”, as said by the Washington Post.
In other words, the grieving women were brave to show emotions.
If we are able to learn anything from this painting, which symbolizes pushing criticism away and leaving emotions in the spotlight, then it is that we can encourage people to not bottle up their emotions. Then, the world will be a better place.