Yeah. I don’t really care so much where they’re coming from. What they said is banal and, actually, problematic. And given the number of likes I’ve gotten, I think I succeeded in calling people’s attention to that fact.

She said up front she didn’t know if S.O. had gotten help

Jesus Christ this is a condescending post. Sinead O’Conner has had 20 years of professional help. For many people mental illness is a life sentence. So your assertion that “it works” is both a lie and a slap in the face to people who aren’t going to ever permanently recover.

Yeah. That’s perfectly legal. Family members falling asleep on each others’ laps is perfectly legal.

When a prosecutor states that they have enough to press charges that does not mean that they are stating that they think someone did it. I don’t know why this keeps going over peoples’ heads.

Really? You believe in witch hunts apparently and that no one should ever even try to say, MAYBE this person isn’t guilty of this heinous thing they’ve been accused of and in fact, there’s some reason to believe he’s not. No, I and anyone who raises doubt about his guilt should just, “stop talking.” That’s nice.

Soon-Yi isn’t his step-daughter. Dear lord, don’t make me feel like a Jez troll.

Read it. I don’t need to click anything at the end. It’s not a case of ignoring the victim, for me. Hell, I think Mariel Hemingway has a stronger case.

Ok. I do keep quiet on this every time it pops up on Jez, but... there is no proof he did anything. If he were a child molester, he would’ve most likely struck several times. He’d’ve converted to Catholicism, rather than railing against the religion for years. Fine: He married into his perversion, so he never needs to…

She’s so smug. I’m starting to really dislike her. And how quickly the world forgets there was an investigation of Allen and the accusations were dismissed. I don’t care for Woody Allen’s movies but I do believe this part of Mia’s lifelong plan to destroy him. Very few people who are old enough to remember the case in…

We NEED to organize campaign to write in emails and complain about the men’s attire every single day until they force one to change on air.

Sometimes you just have get all Barthes and ignore artist statements. :)

You’re a loving, caring earth mother! Now stop being so aggressive about that pay raise, go back to your baby, and make me a sandwich!

Originally I thought the artist was female, and my thought was “this woman is so far up her own ass she’s probably coming out of her own mouth.”

Yeah, I’m not really thrilled with the reinforcement of the idea of women’s bodies as an “embodiment of nature” more than men’s bodies. The woman-as-nurturing-earth-mother-figure is not necessarily feminist. When it’s used to suggest that women are fundamentally different from men—more nurturing, more connected to…

Yeah, I have a hard time seeing it as anything else too. It’s amazing how naked women can be used as a symbol for nearly anything. Thing is, no matter what the subject, it’s still objectification. This thing is especially dubious since it’s a white dude yelling “for our daughters!” LOL, wut?

Sorry, Rachel, but FourStudies has a valid point. Simply saying “ewww” — which is what your response amounts to, in an extended dismissal of a work for its “creepiness” — validates other unreflective responses not just to this but basically to the whole of visual art over the last century. Consider: “I would never buy…

You realize that “art critic” is a profession, right? What if you had written about open heart surgery from the perspective that is was “creepy as fuck” to enter the chest cavity from the front because you didn’t care to deeply consider the ramifications of doing so? Would you you not expect to a) be attacked by…

This is the response of someone who is intelligent, but caught in the “wrong” and recognizes it.

My friends in the U.S. system are always telling me that Temple and Duke will accept anyone to their ARH programs and I guess they are right. You realize the problem in defending an uninformed art “press” as you are about to enter a profession that has maybe 10 tenure-track job openings a year and a dwindling number…