God, this is just the pettiest, most bullshit fucking entitled post I’ve ever seen. Jane Marie, you are an awful, whiny, petulant, entitled person. Get fucked.

She just really comes across as the Hipster wanna be tattoo girl. I hate those girls, but thats another story. Someone watched too much LA INK.

Um he didn’t do the ice cream tattoo on the face, that is Gucci Mane.

Yeah, as a heavily tattooed woman I agree. I’ve had most artists make recommendations about placement and style to me. In fact, I’ve had sort of the anti-Dan experience (with a guy who also refuses to do hand and neck tattoos on people who aren’t already covered in tats, btw—it’s seriously a common policy) where my…

People don’t seem to get the give-and-take that comes with tattoo artists and clients. You can get exactly what you want...but it’s still their work. Their art, part of their repertoire! They have every right to refuse a job, just like as a photographer I have every right to refuse a job that I don’t see fit for me. I…

Exactly. No necks and hands is a super common rule among artists, and many of them do it for personal reasons (ie. regret, whatever) and for protecting the shop (it opens up a certain amount of liability if someone claims down the line they can’t get a job because of a tattoo you did).

I understand why this was an upsetting experience, but tattoo artists refuse jobs all the time for all sorts of reasons. Many have a no necks, no hands policy - it’s quite common. And, as you discovered, what’s off-limits to one artist is totally okay with another - you were able to get exactly what you wanted in the…

You know how everyone was shitting on Seinfeld for talking about overly PC stuff ruining shit? This is part of what he was talking about. Comedians try random shit all of the time. Yes, even in front of reporters and college crowds. A lot of times it’s garbage. Because most stuff is garbage. And they have to find the…

Good performance art is hard to come by and bad performance art is so eye-roll inducing. I think, though, we should consider that this work is personally motivated. She hasn’t just attached herself to a random idea and is making work based on that. She’s drawing from her personal experience, because that’s what she…

I think this piece is supposed to be a little muddled, because it demonstrates how consent is up to the individual, not anyone else. Her view on what is happening does not necessarily match ours. Then she asks that if you’re not going to watch the video with an open mind that you do not watch. Of course, people still…

What is your argument, exactly? Are you saying that it’s only worthwhile to analyze things that have already been deemed high culture worthy of analysis for hundreds of years? Are you saying that your assessment of the piece puts it on par with teenage poetry? Are you saying that analyzing amateur works and fashion…

Obviously a woman making a video is silly, but Nabokov writing about fucking a teenager is ART.

I find it strange and alarming that so many people who might approach a fairly inscrutable piece of literature with a sense of inquisitiveness—willing to analyze it and think critically about it and explore the possible meanings—are dismissing this art piece out of hand as silly, worthless, stupid, self-promotion,…

I kind of think in this instance consent means intention. She wrote

I am an art history major. You are suppose to be objectifying her rape. It is not a test of your morality; it is a test of endurance. During the nineteen seventies there was a great deal of pain performance art. These performances deliberately made the audience uncomfortable with blood, violence, and the threat of…

It’s such a knee-jerk reaction to women trying to be heard, particularly about gendered violence/oppression: narcissist! Attention whore! Be silent! They want us to shut up and go away. I think it very well may be the point of this piece, because it’s all over this comment thread.

I had a similar series of responses, and the hands that didn't resonate helped me identify the emotional response to this young woman that’s been confusing and fascinating me.

I’ve seen a few people call it narcissistic and I seriously don’t get how it is. She’s making political art about something real. Surely making something based on your own experience isn’t enough to make it narcissistic.

I’m not going to watch the video, but I’ve got to say, it’s pretty cool that she’s turning what happened to her into performance art pieces. It’s probably empowering, and I bet it’s a really good way to process it.