Russian oligarch's girlfriend sparks MLK day firestorm after posing on naked 'black woman' chair for

[The Straight Story]

74. I think that woman is just a willing cohort who deserves a pat on the head

But what it really means is that it is art. But because there is a woman we can look at in the art it is sexist (if a man looks at).

If nothing else I have learned the art of examining things on DU. So my photo analysis:

1. I have never seen that woman on the floor act as a chair for a man. Therefore, she is practicing benevolent sexism and should be properly scolded for not treating all people equally at all times and keeping proper records of such action.

2. The lady on the floor is wearing high heels which are a sign of male oppression and yet she is being sat upon by a woman. That woman would never normally do this so she was forced into using her body to make money by posing in this manner (also by a man unless the photo agency is run by a willing female cohort - ie, someone who does not agree with all of the principles of one group of feminists).

3. The painting on the wall is of 3 white women sitting on a couch. All the white women are sitting in the photo which means they are not standing up to men and racism. They are powerless because the men of du are all misogynists (ie, hate women). Note also the photo is in black and white, the same color of the two main subjects.

4. The woman sitting has her hair pulled back and tied up - showing she is not free either but a victim of the patriarchy who told her to sit down and being that she is less of a victim than those of color she sits atop someone else and is closer to men (she is almost standing versus the other lady who is all the way on her back - still oppressed daily in all that she does, how she dresses, etc but still less oppressed than the other).

5. The lady sitting has painted nails. She only did that to please men and any man who notices it in the picture is sexist (well, all men are but those who noticed that and mentioned anything like 'they look nice' wants to have sex with her).

6. She is wearing blue jeans. Black and blue to represent the oppressive culture.

7. The mirrors do not reflect her even though she seems to be on level with them, it is all an illusion.

8. The sitting lady's foot is the same level as the chair lady's face meaning she stepped on others to get her leg up the ladder, she worked to secure the vote for the white women but not others. There is a cushion between them because she does not want to feel the pain of someone else as their suffering would just add complications to her own battle to shake off the evil men.

9. The belt on the woman - notice it is not on the sitting lady, she took it off and handed it down because belts are mainly worn by men and are seen as a symbol of oppression. She took off her high heels as well. Her identity is slowing changing as she searches for independence. She wears pants. Her shirt is buttoned up. Hair pulled back to be shorter. She wants to pass as a man, to become one, and anything that was once seen as feminine has now become a symbol of bad. She will become a man in all ways and eventually remove even the nail polish.

10. The black lady is laying on a round carpet of white - these are the oppressed poor and third world people - people the patriarchal religious males see as all white (like everyone in the bible was white in the middle east). She has a cushion between her and the floor (those worst oppressed by only men) because she lives in a country that is not poor. Oppressed as she is she is better off still than others, even many white people - but in the country she is in she is still below the white privileged women who serve (through marriage and porn) the males.

So much more in this photo. Like all photos it is a tale of how bad men are and everything they do is suspect and related to sex and power. The sitting woman probably has the door held open for her while the woman on the floor probably has to carry her bags.