Here — above and below — are a couple of amazing works of Men’s Rightsy propaganda I missed in my survey of deviantART yesterday, both from a fellow calling himself alexlartwork22. And, yes, they both seem to be meant completely seriously.
Thanks, Tulgey Logger and Cloudiah for finding these! Is anyone else reminded of Chick Tracts here? The crude drawing, the melodrama, the excessive word balloons?
My post yesterday inspired (or at least provided the excuse for) rather a lot of comments, many of them rebutting a Men’s Rightsy fellow calling himself Good. Below, a graphic from Katz memorializing one of Good’s more, er, memorable pronouncements.
@Howard, Great minds and all that… 😀
*I am pretty sure this is his pattern wherever he appears, but I am too lazy to go back to check.
You’re to lazy to check, yet I’m supposed to wade through nonsense posts about cats and unicorns to respond to everything you want me to respond to?
As though someone has taken a Mucha picture & perversely turned the woman into a skinny child.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mucha+art+nouveau&qpvt=mucha+art+nouveau&FORM=IGRE#view=detail&id=08FAFD89F7912C8109E09700192D22F02F8AC016&selectedIndex=20
I never heard about Audrey Kawasaki before… I googled her work. Now I think I’ll have new nightmares. Those paintings hit the uncanny valley for me so badly it hurts. *shudder* And I generally like both Art Nouveau and animesque.
I’m curious as to why it was kind of assumed that we would have heard of her, though. Maybe I just don’t keep up with the art world, but I’d never heard of her before, and I can’t say I feel that was any great loss. Has she been discussed in feminist circles and I missed it or something?
Never saw the ones with semen before, but I guess I’m not super surprised…
I get what you’re saying, but I always thought the expressions looked more dreamy than dead, and I really like the medium she uses. I like her style, and I think it lets her get away with more, but I do like her not-as-sexual stuff better usually.
From the LA Weekly article.
“At these moments, she becomes the epitome of ideal beauty to Kawasaki: confident, powerful, sexual, vulnerable.”
Oh, look, there go my eyeballs, rolling all over the floor again.
Well, that’s art for you – evoking emotions & if you like it, that’s what matters.
I really don’t understand the urge to try to get yourself to like art that you don’t like.
I remember being in the Tate Britain gallery (London, in case you wondered), probably to look at the Turners with 2 friends, one a man, one a woman. as we walked through the gallery, we faced a large canvas, wider than it was long, on the opposite wall. The canvas was white. In the middle, the (male) artist had a large area of red, stronger in colour towarss the middle & bleeding or dripping into the white at the edges. My female friend & I stopped dead & stared, then turned to each other & said “Does that look like what I think it looks like?” almost simultaneously. My male friend said “what? What are you thinking?”.
The painting had some pretentious name like “Media 5”. I’m betting it was a male curator who bought it, too.
She definitely does the “trying to be disturbing but sexy” thing. As far women always looking too young, I think that might be the anime/manga influence. I know that and Art Nouveau are her biggest influences, and you can really see it.
I dunno, I like the creepy look. Not saying her subject matter isn’t bothersome, but I can’t not like her work.
Pretty good write up filled with links:
http://www.freewebs.com/feminism-evaluated/
Athywren,
“Why is having a life supposed to be mutually exclusive with spending time online again?”
Good spends time online and has a life, but we’re hermits because we call him on his BS.
@LesserGood, Howard had a suggestion for how you could do that.
Or you could just run away again, but if so, stay away this time.
Where “pretty good” means “biased and poor”
Ack, I see LesserGood is back to just posting links, because he’s unable to make an argument on his own. Pathetic and tedious is not a good combination, dude.
I could so see these girls she painted as some kind of lure a horror monster would use.
So unearthly “pretty”, vulnerable, childlike, “sexy”… literally eats or tortures for eternity anybody stupid enough to fall for her.
Good, do you even have a point? What are you trying to prove?
“At these moments, she becomes the epitome of ideal beauty to Kawasaki: confident, powerful, sexual, vulnerable.”
I hate when “vulnerable” is supposed to be some feminine ideal.
For some reason the fact that Good thinks that he can challenge feminism by dropping links in the comments on this mockery blog amuses me.
Uh oh, Good has a new link, better close down manboobz. He finally got us.
See, I was busy laughing at the idea that those images were supposed to read as powerful and confident.
@Cassandra, It’s certainly an interesting strategy. He’s probably been banned everywhere else for pointlessness.
Keep tilting at those windmills, sad guy.
Pretty good write up filled with links:
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/