In this model, I attempted to create the effect of a person feeling intimidated and someone with no confidence when facing women. The women in this scenario, are representing confused and perhaps even upset emotions towards the weird reaction of the man. (I tried my best to) The man is surrounded by black and terrible emotion, while the women are surrounded by “regular” white. The inspiration taken from this was the enclosed space of someone feeling scared or uncertain. When applied in the design, it clearly expresses the negative emotion from the man. Furthermore, the man shows frightened reactions in the direction of the women. Usually, gynophobia suggests avoidance and usually occurs in more severe conditions when there are groups of women. Therefore, I added 3 figures in the design. Finally, the color contrast of black and white suggests the emotion. White represents the bright or “normal” emotions, while black suggests negative and unconfident emotion.
I wanted my model to portray the clear emotion of anxiety. This is expressed with the different emoticons on each side of the black area of the box. Gynophobia is usually caused by trauma in one’s life. These emoticons could represent some of the trauma that the person possibly has experience, to further express the reason of gynophobia in this person’s context. Furthermore, the characters’ colors are different. (Brown and red) Red represents a clear stereotypical feminine color, (no personal bias is contained) to better explain the concept of gynophobia. Or perhaps red could also be interpreted as an intimidating color, which is an effect on the man. The man is brown, representing the diminishing insides of him. It also works better with black when the man is hiding the right bottom corner. Finally, the distance between the two types of people also adds to the emotions of the man, where distance is the ideal solution when gynophobia symptoms occur.
