Us wimms just got told we don't read art history in this thread...

[CTyankee]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024549576

Man, that was FUN...

[BainsBane]

1. Yes, that was meee!

I'm the dummy. I don't know anything. My PhD in history came from a cracker jack box! I was going to tell him if I wanted to know about art history I would ask you, but I held my tongue on that and a few other choice comments that entered my head.

[CTyankee]

4. of course. you don't have to know Fragonard, but his use of THAT artist is just dumb...

Too much baggage with Louis the XVI.

[BainsBane]

5. He seems to think ANY image of a woman is objectification

truly bizarre.

[Warpy]

2. Yeah, they sure are something, aren't they?

I knew when DU authorized that group it would devolve into a MRA group just like the worst ones on the web.

My ignore list is growing fast these days.

[BainsBane]

3. Oh, boy

Now I'm supposed to "prove" that I understood a video he clearly doesn't. Like I need to prove anything to him. Talk about entitlement. Unreal.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. I lost a lot respect for that poster when I saw whom he chose to be his cyber

Dominatrix.

[BainsBane]

10. Cyber dominatrix?

I don't follow.

[CTyankee]

6. Folks: if you see one of these art history "proving" something about sexism, please let me know...

if it is European art I probably know something about it. I want to help here...I'm just mad as hell...

[BainsBane]

7. I don't know much art history

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but anyone can see the difference between that image and what is produced by corporate media and the porn industry today.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. the stupid in that thread --

and poor misanthorpe, I want to explain to her (obviously she has never volunteered to host or else she would understand) that there is No Way to Ban her from a Group unless She posts in that group because That is the post that provides the option for banning. You can't click on any old post from any old group and ban someone willie-nillie from any old group. It is the way The System operates.

Do you think she can understand that ... ?

[MadrasT]

11. Trashed that thread right after "the species would die out".

When it gets that stupid I have to split.

[CTyankee]

12. I hate to see art used as an excuse for sexism. I will beat it back whereever I find it...

[MadrasT]

13. Rock on

[CTyankee]

14. Now, dear god, saying Rembrandt's dear Saskia and Hendricke were somehow the sex symbols of the

day! They were the women he loved! Sheesh, has he never SEEN the paintings of those women, Rembrandt's wives? (Poor Saskia died and he later married Hendricke.) Everybody, go google these two women...you will see what I mean...