Of course they're creepy! That's part of their appeal. Remember, you're talking to a guy who plans to have his head cut off and frozen, and his body turned into a giant taxidermied Pez dispenser.
There's nothing problematic about women as furniture!
You could look at it as objectification, or you could look at it as celebrating the female form as beautiful, and not an object of shame that should be covered up and hidden from view, even in every day life.
It's interesting, when we have choices to take things one of two ways like this: when we don't have an artist's statement to tell us which the intention was, how we choose to be outraged and how we choose to interpret art tells more about our own biases and our own psychological dysfunctions than the artist's or society's.
Thanks for sharing your bias and dysfunction with us!
Hey, Chris agreed it was creepy. I think in a room with other expensive art objects it might have its place. From him I wasn't outraged, but I can see how 99.99% of women would not feel good about a guy who wants to own it.
I can't believe you made the implication that, since we know one woman who's ashamed of the female form, all women with XX chromosomes must have the dysfunction of being ashamed of the female form. That's equally poor logic, and just as bigoted, as if you'd said, "I know one black person who's lazy, therefore all black people are lazy." That's offensive and sick and bigoted.
I want to raise your consciousness to be aware that women are human beings: they have the ability to have opinions and interpretations of art that are different from other women. They are not slaves to their XX chromosomes, and having such does not make them all part of a herd, like so many cattle, all of whom must agree with each other: you must learn to respect their individuality, different opinions and tastes, as human beings, and not members of a hive collective or mere objects in a swarm.
Please keep your offensively bigoted statements like this to yourself in the future... we don't want to see them.
to create conversations, spark controversy and question our avoidance of sexually suggestive forms in contemporary furniture design.
That was an unexpected ending! Has there really been such an "avoidance" of sexually suggestive forms in contemporary furniture design? It seems more accurate to me to say that there's been an emphasis on relatively functional furniture design, and that naturally makes sexually suggestive forms difficult.
Also, that one male piece there seems to have been crafted specifically to dodge the accusation of sexism. It's definitely far less sexy than the female pieces.
It is an interesting idea though, at least if you have a house big enough to have so much furniture that you can have a place for this.
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Date: 2009-12-27 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-27 01:30 am (UTC)You could look at it as objectification, or you could look at it as celebrating the female form as beautiful, and not an object of shame that should be covered up and hidden from view, even in every day life.
It's interesting, when we have choices to take things one of two ways like this: when we don't have an artist's statement to tell us which the intention was, how we choose to be outraged and how we choose to interpret art tells more about our own biases and our own psychological dysfunctions than the artist's or society's.
Thanks for sharing your bias and dysfunction with us!
having XX chromosomes is a dysfunction now
Date: 2009-12-27 10:08 am (UTC)What a bigoted generalization in your subject line!
Date: 2009-12-27 05:31 pm (UTC)I want to raise your consciousness to be aware that women are human beings: they have the ability to have opinions and interpretations of art that are different from other women. They are not slaves to their XX chromosomes, and having such does not make them all part of a herd, like so many cattle, all of whom must agree with each other: you must learn to respect their individuality, different opinions and tastes, as human beings, and not members of a hive collective or mere objects in a swarm.
Please keep your offensively bigoted statements like this to yourself in the future... we don't want to see them.
Thank you.
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Date: 2009-12-26 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-26 11:38 pm (UTC)That was an unexpected ending! Has there really been such an "avoidance" of sexually suggestive forms in contemporary furniture design? It seems more accurate to me to say that there's been an emphasis on relatively functional furniture design, and that naturally makes sexually suggestive forms difficult.
Also, that one male piece there seems to have been crafted specifically to dodge the accusation of sexism. It's definitely far less sexy than the female pieces.
It is an interesting idea though, at least if you have a house big enough to have so much furniture that you can have a place for this.
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Date: 2009-12-27 01:25 pm (UTC)