Nah – can’t imagine any of them so self-aware as to notice, let alone wonder.
An actual headline:
The Soft, ‘Impotent’ Gun Sculptures Taking On Toxic Masculinity
She mentioned the recent strides we’ve made as a culture in regards to feminism, LGBTQ rights and the sad reality that some people see liberation of others as a threat to themselves.
“I felt like there was some relationship with these changes and male gun ownership but couldn’t put any facts behind it,” Baxter said. “Then I came across an article written by Elizabeth Winkler for Quartz that explains it really well called ‘America’s gun problem has everything to do with America’s masculinity problem.’ She quotes sociologist Jennifer Carlson: ‘As men doubt their ability to provide, their desire to protect becomes all the more important. They see carrying a gun as a masculine duty.’”
Baxter’s response to all this toxic masculinity? More sparkles, more shine, and lots more sagging. “I am using the traditionally feminine craft of sewing and quilting to emasculate these objects of power and destruction into droopy, impotent, soft sculptures.”
The artist hopes her benevolent rifles, revolvers, handguns and pistols will bring both left- and right-wing viewers a moment of pause, providing a potential space of mutual understanding for what’s most often an extremely heated issue.
It’s not a really deep, existential insult, guys. It’s a ‘potential space of mutual understanding.’ If you can’t see that, it’s only because you’re so toxic. Men – sheesh.
An extremely good place for that belly laugh. 🙂 And I expect her head would explode if she saw my picture… armed, of course.
I look at this “art” and see a person who is afraid and lacking in self confidence. Her art screams that she hates this in herself and is trying to bring down males and females to her level of inadequacy. My hope for the artist is that she manages to overcome her Panophobia and produce something more pleasing to the eye.
And yet . . . they seem to miss the fact that many of us are females, feminine, and heterosexual. and we carry. Who are these people??? Where do they live that they have the time and resources to dream up and actually sew these silly things that have zero appeal. Next someone will be telling me that they got a federal or state art grant to do this inane stuff. Stupidity with stolen money.
I am cynically amused that there are such light-weights who have lived long enough to make powder-puff toys in the shape of —egads!— guns. If we point them at anyone, will we be arrested?
Just one well-armed feralfae, speaking her mind.
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Brandishing something like that will definitely get you laughed off the sidewalk. And then the epic beat down begins. And oh – Winkler needs to get laid.