{"id":4740,"date":"2011-06-14T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/you-can-get-a-really-warped-idea-of-what-women-are\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:50:31","slug":"you-can-get-a-really-warped-idea-of-what-women-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/you-can-get-a-really-warped-idea-of-what-women-are\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4740 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/you-can-get-a-really-warped-idea-of-what-women-are\/attachment\/4741\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao1_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/you-can-get-a-really-warped-idea-of-what-women-are\/attachment\/4742\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao2_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/you-can-get-a-really-warped-idea-of-what-women-are\/attachment\/4743\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao3_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao3_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao3_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao3_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/you-can-get-a-really-warped-idea-of-what-women-are\/attachment\/4744\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao4_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao4_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao4_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tumblr_lmt06yvcTV1qcztaao4_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>You can get a really warped idea of what women are like from magazines. No one I know is anything like the type of woman that magazines &#8211; men&rsquo;s or women&rsquo;s -expect women to be or aspire to. I don&rsquo;t know why that is or what that means.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of artists (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchive.com\/artchive\/G\/gentileschi.html\">Artemisia Gentileschi<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/collective\/A6641318\">Sarah Lucas<\/a>) who have made a point of messing around with the way women are popularly presented and perceived. I&rsquo;m not sure I have much to contribute to that conversation but here are some drawings I made mostly based on photoshoots from fashion magazines. I&rsquo;ve mixed feelings about these sorts of images. On the one hand, they&rsquo;re just beautiful illusions, meant to be enjoyed and disposed of. On the other, women are not.<\/p>\n<p>Like most of my generation, I&rsquo;m tired of these stupid battles for equality (of gender, race, culture, sexuality) and feel like they should have been won years ago, so I&rsquo;m seriously losing patience with anything that might be holding us back. Like these tiresome, vapid, slick, ubiquitous images that dehumanise and objectify women for no good reason. (You don&rsquo;t have to make anyone feel inadequate just to sell clothes. People need clothes.)<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I don&rsquo;t know which is actually worse, the hyper-sexualised, etiolated, airbrushed girls in the glossies, or the sour, harrowed-looking creatures that inhabit those trashy &ldquo;True Life&rdquo; rags with headlines like &ldquo;Psychic Goldfish Cured My Cancer&rdquo; or &ldquo;I Married a Wall&rdquo;. It&rsquo;s a pity there doesn&rsquo;t seem to be a middle ground. Where are all the real girls?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pencil sketches + colour added in Photoshop.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can get a really warped idea of what women are like from magazines. No one I know is anything like the type of woman that magazines &#8211; men&rsquo;s or women&rsquo;s -expect women to be or aspire to. I don&rsquo;t know why that is or what that means. There are lots of artists (from Artemisia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/you-can-get-a-really-warped-idea-of-what-women-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[505,90,46,72],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-concept","tag-digital","tag-drawing","tag-figure","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4745,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}