puttingherinhistory: catsofcydonia:art-of-eons: Guerrilla Girls posters from 1989, 2005 and 2012.
puttingherinhistory: catsofcydonia: art-of-eons: Guerrilla Girls posters from 1989, 2005 and 2012. I know the point, this is why I’m reblogging this, BUT! in the other side, woman nudes are beautiful, men nudes… Eh… Eh…. Ew Ever stopped to consider why you think women’s nudes are beautiful but men’s are gross? I know a lot of people who have the same mindset. When I was in college I remember a guy who was an associate saying he was watching a movie with a lot of female nudity in it and he was fine with it but got so weirded out when there was male nudity that he had to stop and turn off the movie. And do you think it’s a coincidence that most sex scenes in movies have the woman’s body on full display while most of the man’s body is clothed or off screen? Do you think humans are born finding women’s nudity beautiful but men’s nudity gross or weird? No, it’s patriarchal socialization, female nudity is EVERYWHERE and we see it everywhere from the time we’re babies, in art, in film, in advertising. And who does this cater to? Hmm? It’s normalizing straight men’s sexuality by prioritizing their gaze and putting images that cater to their gaze EVERYWHERE while censoring images that sexualize them because heaven forbid we cater to the female gaze for once or ever dare sexualize men for any reason other than a joke. This is also exactly why I can’t get behind how many people think peak feminism and “liberation” is sexualized female nudity and that liberating women means MORE sexualized female nudity everywhere, it’s not breaking any norms or gender roles, female nudity is already more normalized and acceptable than male nudity and that’s because guess who female nudity pleases and caters to? -- source link