Which image of Feminism appeals to you the most? I am wondering what life might have been like if the middle, most scary one hadn’t happened at all… and, I think this is where the artist may have got the idea for the last image…
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Which image of Feminism appeals to you the most? I am wondering what life might have been like if the middle, most scary one hadn’t happened at all… and, I think this is where the artist may have got the idea for the last image…
It’s difficult for me to reconcile the complexity of the personality, intellect and quest for strength in the face of real adversity that Frida Kahlo seemed to possess and her self-portrait (on the left) with pre-feminism.
Neither do I identify the cum-splattered face of the woman pictured on the right as somehow being post-feminist. Perhaps that’s because I don’t think feminism is dead, but rather that the term “feminism”, while oft misused, misunderstood, still applies to a struggle for equal rights and privileges for women that will continue, even if underground, for millenniums. None of this is intended to imply that the woman with a face full of cum could not have been a feminist, but she does appear to be portrayed in what is more often than not a male fantasy than a woman’s fantasy.
Therefore if i had to choose one of the three photos it would be the photo labeled “feminism” by process of elimination because I can imagine her seemingly angry and aghast facial expression being a response to the way women’s rights have been being stripped away rather than re-affirmed at the same time that people in the vanguard of wanting to strip those rights away are presenting themselves as feminists.
Was the “pre-feminist” – “feminist” – “post-feminist” sequence intended sarcastically, as a wry statement, as a thought provoker, or other? They could all, in actuality be representative of facets of feminism depending oon one’s definitions, don’t you think?
I don’t know how it was intended, it was part of a project commissioned by a UK feminist organisation (see the link in the post) for artists to design postcards based around the concept of ‘feminism’. The woman in the middle, Germaine Greer, is a well-known feminist from Australia who is based in the UK. So I find the image of her more loaded with meaning.
I think my favourite image is the one of Frida Khalo.
As a thing of beauty: Khalo’s self-portrait
As a force to be reckoned with: Germaine Greer
As a sign of changing times and why feminists mustn’t stagnate in sexual conservatism: cum-covered Bukkake girl
I’d rather see Furry Girl completing the tryptich though. I was eating a tuna salad when Bukkake girl’s vis came up and it put me off slightly – I do like other porn though.
haha sorry to put you off your sandwich! RH. I don’t think that last one is a real cum-shot. This piece is by an artist and I think they used a model and some flour and water or something!
But I agree, Furry Girl would be a stronger image of a 3wave feminist!
Hah – I’m so credulous!