Comments on: Feminist Vandalism?

By: S

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:31:21 +0000

While we’re at it, why don’t we wake up and realize that these “patriarchal beauty standards” also apply to how women DRESS (or rather their lack thereof…)
I sometimes wonder if sometime in the last 50 years a bunch of men got together and said – how can we get women to walk around in as little clothing as possible, so that we don’t have to respect them as real people and can just treat them as sex objects? And then one guy said – “OH, I know, we’ll just make it really fashionable to wear skimpy clothing, we’ll throw women’s self-esteem down the drain through impossible media standards, and we’ll call women ‘prudes’ if they refuse to show off their bodies or have sex before they’re ready.”
Sounds crazy huh? But if it wasn’t the men’s idea….we have to wonder why women (even “feminist” women) will willingly turn themselves into sex objects and call it “liberation”.

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By: UnFit

UnFit — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:28:04 +0000

I love this, no matter if it’s a feminist statement or just general adbusting.

Either way, I think it’s just endlessly more creative and thought-inspiring.

There used to be those little pink stickers around here (Germany, that is) that had a double axe on them and simply said “misogynist”. I way prefer something a) made to fit the individual ad and b) just more subtle, with more than just one premade statement screaming at you.

Win.

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Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:10:47 +0000

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By: Ekkaia

Ekkaia — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:45:45 +0000

Well, I live in Berlin and there’s actually one of those posters (in it’s not-yet-vandalized form) at “our” U-Bahn station, too. The Berlin street-art scene generally seems to be pretty progressive/leftwing/libertarian/whatever and so forth so I think it’s meant to be criticizing beauty standards and therefore feminist.
It reminds me of that art project I saw in the U-Bahn a couple of weeks ago that worked along the same lines, advertising lobotomy for example. It worked espeacially well when halb the posters at the station were real advertisements and half of them those fake ones.