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Justin paints women; I paint woman.
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The speaker contrasts two ways of representing women. “Justin” paints women as individual subjects, while the speaker paints “woman” as a single, broader subject or idea. The difference is between separate people and a more general understanding of womanhood.
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- Ellen Dissanayake, “(Re)Discovering Daraniyagala”
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