#male critics

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1151

first posted in facebook january 28, 2023

thérèse schwartze -- "portrait of lizzy ansingh" (1902)

"of crucial importance were the upbringing and training she received from her father, johan george schwartze [...] he had studied painting with no less a master than emanuel leutze before moving to düsseldorf for further study. like a modern 'tennis father,' johan began drilling thérèse from the age of five" ... cora hollema

"i will apply myself more to everything so as, with god’s blessing, to be able to earn by living by … painting, and i also hope i will not irritate you any more with foolish things, but will try to become a worthy daughter and to please you with my art" ... thérèse schwartze

"she exhibited a lot, received multiple awards and was a member of many artists’ associations and committees. one of them was amsterdamse joffers, women painters who met weekly to paint and show and discuss their works together. the meetings took place in thérèse schwartze’s house and she was a star of the group. llzzy ansingh, the artist’s niece and student, was a member as well" ... europeana

"yet no matter how favourable the reviews of her work were, there was often an undercurrent of condescension, particularly from male critics (as most critics were). this often took the form of extravagantly high praise, followed immediately by an expression of head-shaking amazement that such high-quality work could actually have been created by a mere woman" ... philip mccouat

"it was lizzy [ansingh] who has done everything she could to honor her aunt’s name and art after her aunt’s death in 1918. she initiated an idea for a commemoration exhibition at the stedelijk museum in amsterdam in 1919, made sure a street in amsterdam was named after thérèse schwartze and she founded the thérèse schwartze foundation, commemorating the painter, supporting dutch visual artists and preserving the dutch portrait art" ... europeana

"you make me dizzy, miss lizzy" ... larry williams

"the more i learn about art history, the more despicable i find HIStory" ... al janik

[noperopesaredope]

I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.

Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.

[tracritical]

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[lilithism1848]

[yudol-skorbi]

i am at the point where if i dont finish now i'll newer finish so yeah the rest of the gaaaaaang

[redditreceipts]

how liberal men think they can help women's rights:

how men can actually help women's rights:

source

[theangryman]

One person was banned almost immediately.

The other person was not banned until they made another post revealing that they were posting videos of their partner.

One person was harassed and bullied and told that they were lying.

One person was given advice, told about how they could improve their situation.

This is why kink is not safe. There is more compassion and kindness for someone who admits to wanting to kick their partner in the face than there is for someone who has received that treatment.

[dysphoricangell]

how are women facing the brunt of idealistic beauty standards when most males literally age like hotdog water LMAO 😭 like a part of nearly all males lives is just… having all their hair fall out?? or at the very least having a noticeably thinning/receding hairline?? but girls are taught from a young age that they need to shave their entire bodies and still look prepubescent to be seen as attractive and worthy of respect. and people (men and like.. libfems) will still say that this isn’t an unsustainable lifestyle for most women.

all humans including female humans, shocker, are mammals. body hair growth is a natural process for mammals. why it’s considered “ugly” or “gross” for women to not shave (when that’s a nonaction) i will never understand.

it just deeply upsets me that women are inculcated into this capitalistic and misogynistic performance of femininity at such a young age. what’s the male counterpart? i literally can’t think of one. men are just allowed to exist in their natural state. but women have to do all this extra stuff (such as shaving, wearing makeup, doing their nails, getting their hair done, etc) to be seen as attractive to men. as if a woman’s natural state of being is ugly or something. ૮ – ﻌ–ა

and the fact that support for the cosmetic industry exists across the board regardless of political perspective (ie: people on both the right and left defending it and encouraging it), goes to show that nothing will stop men from trying to influence how women see themselves.

it’s pedophilic and weird.

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[medusa-fem]

Can we.. stop pretending mini skirts are peak fashion? None of us are comfortable in them. None of us. If I can't bend over in a bar without my ass popping out, then clearly this skirt was not made for my comfort, it was made for men to see my ass. Mini skirts were not made for "female empowerment" they were made for male fantasies. There's a reason autogynephillic males are obsessed with wearing them, mini skirts are fetish wear.

[turkey---leg28]

If you upeth a Stellar Force, you might just upeth into a battle with Vegeta. That was exactly what happened to Garfield one fateful day. He had simply set out to upeth, but instead found himself facing down one of the most powerful Saiyans in existence. It was a fight he could never have imagined, but Garfield knew he had to rise to the occasion.

[lorynna]

inevitably you will then think back about the nights you used to lie awake in bed, butterflies in your stomach fantasizing about this new guy you met, that you hardly knew by then, imagining how he *could* be, on all the fun dates you would go, the sweet things he'd say to you and the fancy restaurant you'd visit for dinner.

you'd think about the beautiful dresses you would pick out for the occasion and didn't think you'd have to tell him what to wear or that he would maybe out of laziness just show up with jogging pants. you didn't think about all the times the dishes might pile up in the sink or the random socks lying around or eventually having to scrub off the shit stains he leaves on the toilet because he can't even manage to clean up after himself.

and he might tell you that this is just because he has gotten comfortable with you and this has nothing to do with him taking you for granted but I'm telling you that he just doesn't care.

i am tired of hearing work colleagues and friends talk about what they do for their men and laughing about it because it's so normalized that they don't second guess it. I don't wanna hear about how you have to cut up vegetables so small that you can mix it in his spaghetti sauce so he doesn't notice because he refuses to eat those and otherwise wouldn't get his necessary vitamins, i am tired of them talking about how their men fail to complete daily task and give the mental load to their girlfriends/wives and they try to talk it into something positive like: He just told me to manage his [feel free to insert anything here] and I agreed - like at least i can do it how I want it to be done and don't have to second-check after he completes the task. Like... in some kind of way I feel more relieved because when I do it myself I know it's gonna turn out the way it should! " (weaponized incompetence much?)

please learn to leave men that don't add any value to your life. leave men that refuse to make an effort and put yourself first always and don't look back. you alone are whole as a person and you don't need a partner to complete you. you will be fine. you will be better.

[dykeulous]

the terminology centered around love making is morose & concerning. sex is supposed to be a safe, consensual experience. the language used to describe sexual acts are rooted in a violent sect of the heteropatriarchy. “smash”, “ruin”, “destroy”, “break their back”, “rearrange their organs”, “blow”, “bang”, “screw”, “pound”, and more are all used to describe sexual acts. it’s described as something done to someone, rather than as a mutual act. this violent language is so present in our culture, and it assumes that a woman can be sexually satisfied & reach the point of climax merely on the basis of penetration, which has been proven so many times to be blatantly untrue. perhaps it’s just true that men don’t even truly want the woman to feel any sexual pleasure during the act at all, and that they simply see their dicks as something to be worshipped. they truly do want to smash, ruin, destroy, bang, pound, and screw– they want to destruct. they want satisfaction, they want to feel pleasure on the basis of female suffering & female pain. they don’t want the woman to be sexually pleased at all. they don’t see the woman they’re making love with as a person worthy of the status of a person. they don’t think they’re engaging in a mutual activity, they simply take what they want and don’t try to satisfy the person they’re having sex with at all, because they don’t see that person as a person, and because they don’t see the sex act as something they’re doing with someone, but as something they’re doing to someone. that is the essence of rape culture, male egocentrism, and male dominance.

[houseofpinkboombox]

Me watching the internet rip the shit out of Neil Gaimen after watching to him be performative for years and shit on JK Rowling for standing up for women.