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Some egregiously expensive examples of Headless Women Art, once again by a woman artist (judging by the name)

In the spirit of fairness, these examples were actually presented as a triptych with this piece, featuring a woman granted a whole third of a face (wild cheering).

Yet I find myself stuck on a more fundamental point underlying my ongoing critique of Headless Woman Art, which is that these soulless depictions of the human form, beheaded or otherwise, are almost never of men.

I attribute this to the idea that men haven’t been relentlessly objectified, throughout culture and time, so using their depiction as meaningless decoration doesn’t appeal to people’s aesthetic sensibilities the way that women do. To be woman, in many people’s minds, is to be a decorative object, not a person. It’s therefore natural, for them, if decorative objects are women too.

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3 teenagers were all sent on break together today and all 3 came back so high that they literally couldn't function and had to be sent home 💀 this one girl fell asleep in a booth in the lobby waiting for her mom to pick her up.

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This is an unserious country lol

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can't afford full words in this eccy doll

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for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the “question only a human can answer” which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?

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Helen of Troy (detail) Frederick Sandys

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“It’s become popular to embrace trendy notions from postmodernism in some activist circles. This includes the idea that gender is a “binary”. But gender is not a binary: it’s a hierarchy, global in its reach, sadistic in its practice, murderous in its conclusion, just like race, just like class.

Gender demarcates the geopolitical bounderies of patriarchy. It divides us in half but it’s not a horizontal half. It’s vertical. Gender is not some cosmic yin and yang. It’s a fist and the flesh that bruises. It’s a mouth crushed shut and a girl who will never be the same.

Gender is who gets to be human and who gets to be hurt.”

— Female Erasure; chapter 23: The Girls and the Grasses by Lierre Keith; 2016

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Good Girls - 2x08 (scene)

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This is so disappointing… Another gnc girl transed in TV for no good reason other than she doesn’t dress like a girl and doesn’t fit in with other typically feminine girls. This character deserved so much better. The women and girls who watch this deserve better. We deserve better than being told again and again that gender non conformity should be pathologized and medically treated instead of accepted and embraced.

We need to stop this message that womanhood is anything other than femaleness. Before it’s too late for even more young women and girls who are taking dangerous hormones and endangering their health in a misguided attempt at feeling like they belong. Women deserve to belong in their own bodies.