1925 c. Plaque brooch of diamonds, calibre-cut citrines, a pair of step-cut sapphires, rubies and accents of black enamel, set in platinum. From Claudia Coburn, Pinterest.
Guerrilla Girls posters from 1989, 2005 and 2012.
There seem to be a lot of people in the notes getting defensive over the ratio of women in nude art.
Yes, even if the ratio of nudes between genders was perfectly equal it would still be a massive issue that women artists are so underrepresented. And yes, of course there is nothing inherently immoral or dirty or wrong with nude art.
*However*, that doesn’t mean that we should just ignore that women as nudes are so overrepresented in the art world. If it didn’t matter that women in nude art are so overrepresented, then why would the Guerrilla Girls have even included those percentages in the first place, rather than just making a poster that says “Only 5% / 3% / 4% of artists in the modern art section are women” and leaving it at that?
It does matter that women are so overrepresented as nudes in the art world, otherwise it wouldn’t have been brought up. If you need help understanding why that matters, I think you need to review some feminism 101.
There’s also a few notes insinuating that there is a correlation between the percentage of women artists going down and the percentage of women as nude subjects going down, and I feel like we’re not looking at the same stats.
The percentage of women artists goes down 2% between 1989 and 2005, and so does the percentage of women as nudes. However, between 2005 and 2012 the percentage of female artists goes back up to 4%, and this is where the largest plumet in the percentage of women as nudes happens when it goes down to 76%.
Still overrepresented, but if you think the percentage of women as nudes is only going down due to there being fewer women artists, you are willfully ignoring that the biggest drop in the percentage of women as nudes happens when there was a slight uptick in the amount of women artists.
I don’t think that slight uptick is fully related to the plumet in the percentage of women as nudes, but let’s not cherry pick and pretend excluding women as artists leads to fewer nude paintings of women, when all the statistics indicate the opposite.
My experience, and of course this is purely anecdotal, and probably varies quite a bit between different regions and cultures, but my experience is that I’ve encountered way more people who are prudish about seeing nude men in art than people prudish about nude women in art, and this is often specifically a result of being more desensitized to seeing nude women in art.
Pro-censorship wattpad refugees drama is so funny to me because when I started using ao3 as a kid I was a devout mormon and I thought that reading anything even remotely pornagraphic was a sin and would ruin my life. So when I was 13 and found ao3 I went "oh awesome I found a fanfic website with a filtering system so I won't ever randomly stumble into porn. This is great! I was really worried about seeing something I didn't want to see on the other platforms." I didn't read any smut online until like three years later. If a mormon 13 year old can figure out 'don't like don't read' wattpad users can too cmon you guys i believe in you.
Yes yes yes this scene thank you for the tag, heehehehe
It’s funny because this scene must be based on the memoir Special Agent by Candis DeLong. In it she describes being out looking at clothes at a department store on lunch break with another female agent and overhearing a conversation between a man and a woman in which he says he’s an FBI agent. They peer around some clothes racks thinking that they’re going to see one of their fellow agents trying to get a date, and when they don’t recognize the guy they go over and pretend to be interested in the big strong FBI agent themselves and ask to see his badge. The guy actually pulled out a fake badge, whereupon they said “Huh, that doesn’t look anything like ours…”, produced their own badges and arrested him for impersonating an FBI agent. (I remember this bit from a 25 year old book because I actually stole it myself for a fic)
Exquisite. Glorious. 10/10 thank you for sharing.
Anonymous asked:
We need weight loss ads now more than ever. Trump has reinvigorated the Fat Liberation group. The obesity epidemic is at its highest point ever. We need weight loss ads now more than ever.
teaboot answered:
Seriously bruh, if you wanna make a case about nutritional defecits and the declining vitamin and mineral content in agricultural produce, the overall failure of public school physical education to provide any productive and meaningful instruction on personal health and correct methods of exercise, the ever-increasing cost of healthy foods, and the frankly shameful rate of child hunger and food waste all collectively contributing to poorer health in persons of ALL body types, I’m happy to play ball, but if the beginning and end of your platform is “there are more fat people than there used to be and being fat is bad so promoting eating disorders and drug abuse is good actually” then you are straight up wasting everyone’s time
“Uhhh but everyone was skinny in 1920 look at this "fat lady” who was in a freak show at the circus lol and look how average she would be now" do you have any idea how many vitamins and other supplements we have had to insert into the food and water supply to combat widespread malnutrition in the last several decades
You realize how many people had teeth rotting out of their heads before we put fluoride in drinking water
Jesus fucking christ, google “B12 defecit”
The population was skinnier because we were constantly on the precipice of dying from shit like low zinc, you absolute dingbat
People being ‘fatter’ than we used to be is a GOOD thing, combating genuine weight-related health issues with a constant barrage of image-critical ads and the promotion of eating disorders in scientifically proven to be harmful and ineffective bullshit, and the fact that thinness as a beauty standard has been pushed to such extremes as intentionally infecting oneself with viruses and parasites amd chemically and surgically-enforced starvation over the past several hundred years only proves that this is not a natural default but a heavily-reinforced and artificial standard
Hey also just from a biologic perspective “humans are naturally skinny” is incorrect. “There weren’t fat people in the past” is an absurd idea cultivated by modern beauty standards that focus on returning us to a “natural” but completely false ideal. If you want proof, there are groups of people alive right now who live the same way that our ancestors did. There are hunter-gather tribes in the Amazon, Africa, Australia, New Guinea, and probably lots of other places around the world, and if you look up pictures of them, they are not skinny toned supermodels. They look like regular people and encompass the same array of body types you’d see at a local supermarket.
Humans having variable metabolisms within the same population is not just normal, it’s fucking awesome. It’s one of the things that made us so adaptable and able to spread across the world. It is quite literally integral to our success as a species. If a drought hits in your small hunter-gatherer community and kills off all your prey, you know who’s going to survive? The people who metabolize fat slower and thus can survive longer without food. That’s why humans are fat sometimes. It’s insurance against uncertain futures.
(And, in fact, people who have immediate ancestors who went through periods of starvation are more like to hold onto fat. If you starve yourself to be skinny, your grandchildren are more likely to be overweight. Diet culture is directly linked to more people being fat. So. There. Source:)
i genuinely just don’t think people who don’t want to drive should have to. i think driving should be optional and it’s weird that we pressure people who are uncomfortable with it into doing it
you know who we should make operate a 4000 pound machine that goes 80 miles an hour? people who are really anxious about it
it's such bs that the whole guilt-ridden stoic self-sacrificing martyr thing doesn't work outside of fiction. repressing all your emotions and neglecting your physical wellbeing should make you god's most tragically beautiful morally unassailable little soldier of righteousness but all it does is give you bad skin and gastrointestinal problems
like what do you MEAN the number 1 sexiest character trait of all time is just kind of offputting and bad for you in real life. next you'll tell me smoking has consequences other than looking like a mysterious badass
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Give Lilly Wachowski Her 10 Fucking Million Dollars To Make A Movie What The Fuck Is Wrong With You You Stupid Cunts Like Hello She Made The Matrix Are You Dumb? Do You Not Like Good Shit?
re: the notes on this post, even though I have only seen the four Matrix movies and not the rest of the Wachowski sisters' filmography, I can 100% with absolute certainty guarantee that there is not a single movie or television that they've made which was bad, it's a fact and you can disagree all you want if you think they made a bad project it's simply because your brain is not calibrated enough to understand it, ergo you were too stupid to get it AND it was too smart for you at the same time
also $10M is NOTHING. it's fucking peanuts. warner bros probably have executive dinners that cost more.
Guardians of the Galaxy cost $200M
No Time to Die cost $300M
The Last Jedi cost $350M
And none of these are adjusted for inflation! And it's the net budgets too, so promotion etc isn't even included!
$10M is small-scale indie filmmaking by Hollywood standards. That's a size of budget they routinely write off for shits and giggles.
The filmmaker wrote the script alongside her partner, MickeyRayMahoney. While the duo has struggled to get The Hunted made, it is currently in development through Anarchists United and Ariadne banner. Wachowski planned a live table read in Los Angeles on August 7 and 8.
"I'm just going to go out and I'm going to grab that trans joy with all of my friends," Wachowski shared. "It's not the thing that I had imagined it was going to be, but the end result is the same."
The Hunted is set in a dystopian American society where trans people are degraded and pushed out. The political thriller follows two trans women searching for the culprit behind crimes against trans people, which leads them to the highest levels of government.
I think we should figure out what age we’re living in now so we can say how it’s collapsing to each other
Our age of plastics is collapsing
Our age of information is collapsing! *remembers generative AI, nods to self* our age of information is collapsing.
Someone please print this post on something durable idk etch it on metal or write it on a clay tablet and bake it
(ideally after @21st-century-minutiae add their info)
In the early twenty-first century film Christopher Noaln adaption of Homer's Odyssey, one of the themes presented was how the rejection of social mores had far reaching effects on civilization. The willingness to take dishonorable action was bluntly leading to a social apocalypse, specifically the Bronze Age collapse, a historical event that saw the death of empires and led to hundreds of years of reduced literacy and quality of life in the Mediterranean.
This culminated with the (often mocked) line in the film spoken by the character Odysseus: "Our Age of Bronze is collapsing". People in the Bronze Age did not, and would not have, called themselves as living in the Bronze Age (and the choice to use the word "collapse" after the historical event is particularly blunt). The term was originally coined hundreds of years later by poets like Hesiod (and refined by later poets like Ovid) to describe their central thesis about history and development, specifically that everything used to be perfect, but everything was getting worse and would continue to get worse. A Golden Age was followed by a Silver Age, followed by a Bronze Age, (followed by a Heroic age according to Hesiod, but not Ovid), followed by the (what they considered to the present) Iron Age.
Most of this was based on mythic history, but people in Antiquity did have knowledge of the "Bronze Age" before, where the Mediterranean World was richer and complex trade networks existed to permit the production of Bronze, being an alloy of Tin and Copper which are seldom located in the same areas. Iron, in comparison, required greater technology to be worked (hotter furnaces), but could be done locally with complex trade networks. The resulting Iron tools and weapons were inferior to Bronze, and a lot of the reckoning of the world was based on this metaphorical paradigm: people no longer were capable of producing the superior product of the past.
Much later, as a part of historical development away from mythology towards evidence-based archeology, the terms "Bronze Age" and "Iron Age" were reused to describe the tools primarily available to the civilizations. Replacing the mythical "Golden" and "Silver" Ages were instead replaced with the idea of a "Stone Age". Further developments in archeology further divided these simplified ideas of ages as understanding expanded.
In modern reckoning, the "Bronze Age" still roughly corresponds to the poetic idea of the "Bronze Age", and the "Iron Age" with the "Iron Age" of the past (though it is much less common a term compared to "Bronze Age", as "Greek Dark Age" and "Antiquity" are far more common), but they refer to different concepts.
People have used the concept of Ages to talk about further periods of time, up to and including the contemporary. But it is generally understood that the full scope of an Age can only be understood with the full context: that is to say, in hindsight. They represent how people simplify and reckon with vast periods of history. Ultimately they are oversimplifications for convenience, and we cannot know how people in the future will oversimplify the present. That said, proposals have been made. "Information Age" and "Plastic Age" are two known examples of people trying to describe how the present is distinct from the past, the former for the rise of the information economy where data itself is considered valuable in concrete ways, and the latter for the novel archeological evidence we will leave behind via materials which did not exist before.
We're gonna have a hard time convincing future generations the phrase "Trumped-up charges" is etymologically unrelated.
i am of the sincere belief that if ur on ur computer a lot you should visually customize it to high hell and back not just for funsies but also because it has literally made me less depressed before. its kind of like how rearranging your bedroom is good for your brain, yknow. i do stuff like this every few months
and if anyone wants to follow suit
LIVE WALLPAPER: wallpaper engine. only thing on here that costs any money (its like 5 bucks on steam). im sure theres free alternatives but this one has a lot of presets and stuff so its less hassle and its what i use. might be a bad idea for lower end pcs tho
CUSTOM TASKBAR: retrobar on github (lots of different options)
CUSTOM CURSOR: theres a lot of places to find these, but rw-designer open cursor library is a good place to start
DISCORD: betterdiscord, im using the clearvision v7 theme with a custom background
EXTENSIONS (these are for firefox, might or might not exist on other browsers):
- tabliss for the new tab theme
- stylus for tumblr -> specifically the 'tumblr - custom dashboard pallette' theme for colors + bg, and this for the pre-twitterifcation layout
- enhancer for youtube for custom youtube colors
- the browser theme is just one i found on the firefox theme 'store'
I agree. A computer should feel like a place you go. Your home computer should be different from your work computer. It should feel different.
Anonymous asked:
Your pronouns sound like someone clearing their throat
willgrahamscock answered:
you guys find new ways to hate crime every day
my gender is now canceled everyone stop perceiving it
You should be able to say “don’t touch me” to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something it’s this
Wild how surprising it is for people to encounter this. I was on an airplane recently, awaiting takeoff, when my seatmate grabbed my wrist and started to tell me something about her fear issues with airline travel and I just said, "Please stop touching me," over top of her at normal speaking volume.
Her face went startled and confused, like it hadn't occurred to her that this was something one could say, but she did let go of my arm, and left me alone for the rest of the flight.
I truly don't think she had any kind of bad intention, at least other than the fact that holding onto my arm was clearly a technique for keeping me hostage to her monologue about her feelings. And I did (do) feel for her. Facing your anxieties isn't easy. But that doesn't entitle anyone to grab another person without asking or be shocked when they ask you to stop.