I’m not for a moment trying to say this is new and progressive - this is the kind of wishy washy weakly justified ‘art’ that I can’t stand, personally, I’m just not a fan of such catch-all statements that literally any work featuring a nude woman is inherently objectification.

What’s scary about chimps is that they’re both strong and smart.

It absolutely IS objectification. If it weren’t, he wouldn’t need their naked bodies to make his point. He NEEDS tits to make his point. That’s 100% objectification. The thoughts, fears, and concerns of the woman, the things that truly make her a whole woman, are irrelevant and unnecessary for his white mans message.…

This. For those who don’t speak New Agey mumbo-jumbo, allow me to translate: “I like taking pictures of naked women and getting progressive brownie points while I do it.”

Would I feel differently if it were a woman artist? Yes. Absolutely. I’d still think it was stupid, and I’d still have major problems with the message of “earth mother pretty lady” bullshit. But I wouldn’t actively dislike the artist as much.

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!

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…

I think they were referencing her originally becoming famous in 12 years a slave?

I’m guessing, but they might have been referencing that she came to fame playing a slave so that’s the first time the public saw her widely and yet we now all think of her as very glamorous. I may be wrong and she was well-known before that role, but that’s where I first heard of her.

Hakuna your tatas! That has nothing to do with labia, but I like to say it.

Hah! I noped out on a guy I’d been otherwise totally enjoying dating, the very moment he was complicit in that convo with a friend of his. There was NO WAY he was going to see me naked after he nodded when the other guy said he hates it when someone’s vulva “looks like the Predator.”

I don’t understand what activism some of these folks are doing besides having tumblr accounts and being somewhat famous (and by that I mean, mainly stenberg and blanchard)

Not any different from the Nyu, new school and Cooper Union kids when I was at Nyu 15 years ago. Young idealists have always been into art and activism but cool feature I guess.... ? Why do we keep congratulating millennials like they’re reinventing the wheel though? I knew so many people just like this when I was a…

sadly true :(

no I know, he is really exceptionally fucking awful. But don’t try to tell me that “normal” men don’t ever look at their daughters and think of them as sexual beings, or possible sexual partners. Donald Trump jokes about this shit. This guy is just on the far-flung fringe of sexualization, he’s not totally off the…

Well, I’m back from the lab and the results are in. Apparently the answer is... “deport the Mexicans”...god damnit. I knew I shouldn’t have done my Post-Doc research at Trump University.

He was middle/upper-middle class suburbia. You don’t have to be a mega-millions trust fund baby to be raised an entitled asshole who objectifies women.

What indeed. We must find the answer to this mystery, to the laboratory!

Michelle’s hair looks like she and the Prez got down just before walking in. I love it.

It took me a second to realize that the lead image wasn’t a stock photo, they look so normal.