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.
It did, they two are already so closey related it’s wierd that anyone thinks it’s some amazing discovery to put them together. It looks great but isn’t new.
@auggziliary and CassandraSays
It really is a problem with Japanese art in general, and it seems like whenever someone is influenced by it they can’t shake the too-young thing with women. If anyone has seen any stuff that isn’t like that I would love to see it, because I sure haven’t yet.
And oh, “r-word.” I’m silly.
Some life, consisting of being tedious and constantly barging in where you’re not welcome.
I’m not a big fan of picasso. He had talent, but it doesn’t move me. It’s a little better in person, but still doesn’t move me much.
I’m curious as to why you felt the need to splain this to me, given how obvious it is.
@ baileyrenee
There’s definitely Japanese art (modern as well as classical) that features adult women rather than adolescents, but I don’t know that I’d recommend any of it, since all the stuff I’ve seen has its own issues (eg Araki and his unfortunate tendency to make women look like sides of beef hanging in a meatlocker).
I mean art with a sexy tone to it. There’s also plenty of art that isn’t sexualized, obviously.
As you’re at least gender-neutral in your defense of public shaming (instead of many people here), I’m genuinely curious : why do you consider that it’s a good thing if “she is always going to be “that girl who went nuclear over a guy she barely knew””? I mean, people evolve, people sometimes say and do dumb things and it just sounds horribly oppressive (for real this time) if people have to be publicly and irrevocably condemned for the rest of their lives for something they said or did at one particular moment. Public shaming is a rest of an archaic period where fanatical Puritans where trying to build the kingdom of God by using barbaric means, so why any “progressive” person would want to keep using it in the 21th century?
You mean Nobuyoshi Araki? Yea, I don’t know what to think of his stuff… Real “2edgy4me.”
Brz makes me wish that this blog had a “hide comments” function. Reading his crap is like the anti-coffee.
Yeah, I remember the first time I encountered Araki’s work and it was like, OK, dead-looking women in disheveled kimonos hanging in the air. You’re so edgy I think I just cut myself, baby.
I can’t comment on the japanese art convo because I kind of know pathetically little about art. The closest my family gets to art knowledge is hanging out at the art museum once or twice a year because they don’t charge an entrance fee.
But also brz was so boring I couldn’t read his comment. This is kind of a pointless comment, but I want the record to reflect it’s not as pointless as it could be *cough* brz *cough*
I literally can’t make myself read his comments in detail. I think my brain is subconsciously trying to protect me from falling asleep at my desk and hitting my head on the keyboard tray.
None of Brz’s bullshit sounded remotely like a non-native speaker.
hellkell? You noticed that too? I also noticed how clued in it was to local issues/social questions.
You’re right. Far better to round up a mob of men to hurl death and rape threats at her, eh? Make men look like violent thugs who should be hated and distrusted. Well, I suppose if you keep it up, you might actually generate some of that misandry you guys are always frothing about. That’d be good, wouldn’t it?
Pecunium: the syntax is AMAZING for someone who claims to still be learning.
It’s true that there are times when the public’s shaming is misplaced…..like when an entire town turns against a rape victim instead of her rapists. But bullies should be shamed. Our culture far too often rewards bullies for their behavior and reinforces their abuse. Bullies tend to win in our culture. The public shaming of bullies is necessary.
And I count the entire MRM as a mass of bullies, abusers, stalkers, and harassers. You are the abuser’s lobby. You are the type of people who exhort a 14 year old rape victim to kill herself and make excuses for the 40 year old man who raped her (that guy’s getting out of jail today, by the way).
hellkell: yes, the syntactical structures show a pretty solid level of intuitive use of English, almost as if it were a native speaker.
@kittehs
Oh no, they’ll be coming for me! *eep* They’ll know I’m afraid of fish! They can smell fear!
/mostly fake panic.
@good
Then spend the time you spend commenting on new threads on the old one you messed up, dude. You don’t need to jump threads all the time like this, it almost makes one think you’re avoiding the shit you stewed up 😉
@auggz
ick 🙁 That does sound squicky, but I haven’t seen her art, so I can’t comment much on it, just the stuff you typed here.
@good
Okay Cloudiah (it was cloudiah, right?) is too lazy to see if this trend goes on multiple threads but you can’t even be arsed to stick to one? Dude, just bookmark* it when you got to do something else, it’s not that hard.
*or however the rest of you do it 😛 that’s how I do.
@cassandrasays
DItto.
@baileyrenee
All the seconding.
Wow, they’re trying really hard to fight that strawperson XD
@Athywren
Speak for yourself, I need the sun! XD (vitamin D deficiency here) Though I am kinda hermit-y in not having many friends + lots of free time atm cuz I’m out of work for the moment. Well, out of work and sucky at doing shit with my free time.
I’m still sad over the advice to preserve my hair color by avoiding the sun that I was given recently. I LIKE the sun.
@cassandrasays
I like the sun too, at least I’ve been much more partial to it since bad back chronic pain drama. But that’s mostly cuz when the suns out it’s warmer*, when winter comes around I’ll probably be back to snarling at the sun cuz it gives me headaches.
*my back used to be helped a lot by heat, and even though it’s mostly better now, I’m still super happy when it’s hot out.
Wow and I just realized that my rambling was kinda off topic. Sowwyz :/
Oh, I hear you. I feel all wilted and crappy during the winter if I’m not getting enough sun. It’s partly the cold, but the lack of bright sunlight also affects my mood.
I hadn’t ever heard of her, so I did a Google image search, and it was a vast, rolling sea of ganja eyes.
She’s like a teen who can only draw one thing so she does it over and over.
Cassandra, can’t you just wear a big floppy hat and/or headscarf to protect your hair? I say that as someone who has been told to wear a big floppy hat when outside because I’m so fair, but who doesn’t do that because I don’t want to look ridiculous. 🙂