Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

Kahlo, the great painter of primal female pain, used its femalecounterpart in language and in her paintings. According to herbiographer:Indeed, the painting presents stereotypes, the macho and thechingada, his victim. Chingada, literally the “ screwed one, ” isM exico’s most familiar curse and a word used frequently byFrida. 29Octavio Paz is then quoted to explicate the meaning beyondany possible ambiguity or sentimentality:T h e verb [chingar, “ to screw” ] denotes violence, an emergencefrom oneself to penetrate another by force.. . . T h e verbis masculine, active, cruel: it stings, wounds, gashes, stains andit provokes a bitter, resentful satisfaction. T h e person who suffersthis action is passive, inert and open, in contrast to theactive, aggressive and closed person who inflicts it. 30Kahlo, whose paintings are the most vivid renderings by anywoman of the female screwed, gashed, wounded, precisely thechingada, was married to Diego Rivera, considered Mexico’sgreatest modern painter. He painted socialist art, a brotherhoodof dignity in work, a romance of the proletariat, epic muralsof the working class. She painted what it was like beingfucked by him; he himself said it,If I loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted tohurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim o f this disgustingtrait. 31