Craiyon (8): You Don't Own Me

[edelsont]

"You don't own me."  Those are the words I submitted to Craiyon; it gave me back nine pictures, as usual; and together, the words and the pictures make up the artifact shown below.  Take a look.

These are the darkest Craiyon pictures I've posted yet.  Literally; and also, ain't nobody looks happy here.

This didn't surprise me: at an intuitive, emotional level, the pictures seemed a good match for the words.  But the "logical" part of my brain begged to differ.  It spake thus:

"If Person X doesn't own Person Y, isn't that a good thing, not a bad one?  Nobody should own anybody, right?  So when interpersonal non-ownership is asserted, one would expect the feelings inspired by this to be happy, not sad."

So why aren't they?

This is a real question.  I invite you to think about it.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The pictures seem a good match for the words (quoting you above). In my view this is because the teenage Lesley Gore, who wrote the words, isn’t actually asserting “interpersonal non-ownership” but instead fiercely defending her independence and her life.

Because if you *do* own her, that leaves her with only one sensible alternative.

She can’t be “happy.” And Craiyon, somehow brilliantly reading the subtext, isn’t about to spit out nine cheery pictures to accompany her words.

/ RL

Thanks!

[edelsont]

Your comment has been "unscreened", and is now visible to the world. I appreciate your input. And I think I basically agree with you, on the main point, though I wouldn't put it the same way. Oh, and I trust you agree that "two people putting roughly the same thing in different words" is ... a good thing, not a bad one. Innit?

Re: Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely! Thank you.