Anything You Can Do

Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) is dedicated to feminism in its varieties, especially in history and media representation.

[hopemybossdontfindthisblog]

Dusting off the commission’s post a bit, hopefully making it more attractive, the prices remain the same, so does the conditions. Currently on the most uptight financial situation of my life due to the economic crisis in the country, therefore any contribution is appreciated.

Sketches -  Bust: 5$ // Full Body: 8$

Digitally Inked Lineart – Bust: 10$ // Full Body: 15$

Lineart/Flatcolors –Bust: 15$ // Full Body: 20$

Lineart/Cellshading – Bust: 20$ // Full Body: 25$

Lineart/Digital Painting-Bust: 25$ // Full Body: 35$

This are the base prices, they might go up if the request is too complicated or down depending on your personality.

The criteria of drawing more than one character would be doubling the price, but it also depends on the complexity of the request.

My artwork is DIGITAL, which means you are paying of the digital drawing. I won’t be sending Prints or sketches; I don’t mind you printing the art, for non-commercial use only.

I won’t be displaying the final pieces online if you don’t want to, but I would use them for personal purposes if feel like to.

The payment must be through Paypal

Mail is: [email protected] 

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March - 2019 Still open.

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April - 2019 open.

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May - 2019

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August -2019 … I didn’t reblog this in June or July you can’t be mad at me.

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September - 2019

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October - 2019

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Not to guilt trip anyone, but my birthday is in three days, and I’d like to eat cake. So if you are thinking in commissioning something these days, consider me.

[hopemybossdontfindthisblog]

Dusting off the commission’s post a bit, hopefully making it more attractive, the prices remain the same, so does the conditions. Currently on the most uptight financial situation of my life due to the economical crisis in the country, therefore any contribution is appreciated.

Sketches -  Bust: 5$ // Full Body: 8$

Digitally Inked Lineart – Bust: 10$ // Full Body: 15$

Lineart/Flatcolors –Bust: 15$ // Full Body: 20$

Lineart/Cellshading – Bust: 20$ // Full Body: 25$

Lineart/Digital Painting-Bust: 25$ // Full Body: 35$

This are the base prices, they might go up if the request is too complicated or down depending on your personality.

The criteria of drawing more than one character would be doubling the price, but it also depends on the complexity of the request.

My artwork is DIGITAL, which means you are paying of the digital drawing. I won’t be sending Prints or sketches; I don’t mind you printing the art, for non-commercial use only.

I won’t be displaying the final pieces online if you don’t want to, but I would use them for personal purposes if feel like to.

The payment must be through Paypal

Mail is: [email protected] 

[poorlydone-xmensketches]

July 2018 - Again; open for commissions. while this PC still works. 

[handeaux]

Above the Smog and Beyond the Known: Louisa Clark Trask Mitchel

Cincinnati would come to play one of the most significant roles in American scientific advancement, astronomy being a large part. Louisa Clark Trask Mitchel would pave the way for the first Observa…

A great new blog on the women who enriched Cincinnati’s history. I look forward to many more posts.

[bespangeled]

In the 1960′s Legally a woman couldn’t

Open a bank account or get a credit card without signed permission from her father or hr husband.

Serve on a jury - because it might inconvenience the family not to have the woman at home being her husband’s helpmate.

Obtain any form of birth control without her husband’s permission. You had to be married, and your hub and had to agree to postpone having children.

Get an Ivy League education. Ivy League schools were men’s colleges ntil the 70′s and 80′s. When they opened their doors to women it was agree that women went there for their MRS. Degee.

Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions.

Keep her job if she was pregnant.Until the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978, women were regularly fired from their workplace for being pregnant.

Refuse to have sex with her husband.The mid 70s saw most states recognize marital rape and in 1993 it became criminalized in all 50 states. Nevertheless, marital rape is still often treated differently to other forms of rape in some states even today.

Get a divorce with some degree of ease.Before the No Fault Divorce law in 1969, spouses had to show the faults of the other party, such as adultery, and could easily be overturned by recrimination.

Have a legal abortion in most states.The Roe v. Wade case in 1973 protected a woman’s right to abortion until viability.

Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment. According to The Week, the first time a court recognized office sexual harassment as grounds for legal action was in 1977.

Play college sports Title IX of the  Education Amendments of protects people from discrimination  based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial  assistance It was nt until this statute that colleges had teams for women’s sports

Apply for men’s Jobs   The EEOC rules that sex-segregated help wanted ads in newspapers are illegal.  This ruling is upheld in 1973 by the Supreme Court, opening the way for women to apply for higher-paying jobs hitherto open only to men.

This is why we needed feminism - this is why we know that feminism works

[galacticdrift]

I just want to reiterate this stuff, because I legit get the feeling there are a lot of younger women for whom it hasn’t really sunk in what it is today’s GOP is actively trying to return to.

Did you go to a good college? Shame on you, you took a college placement that could have gone to a man who deserves and needs it to support or prepare for his wife & children. But if you really must attend college, well, some men like that, you can still get married if you focus on finding the right man.

Got a job? Why? A man could be doing that job. You should be at home caring for a family. You shouldn’t be taking that job away from a man who needs it (see college, above). You definitely don’t have a career – you’ll be pregnant and raising children soon, so no need to worry about promoting you.

This shit was within living memory.  I’M A MILLENIAL and my mother was in the second class that allowed women at an Ivy League school. Men who are alive today either personally remember shit like this or have parents/family who have raised them into thinking this was the way America functioned back in the blissful Good Old Days. There are literally dudes in the GOP old enough to remember when it was like this and yearn for those days to return.

When people talk about resisting conservativism and the GOP, we’re not just talking about whether the wage gap is a myth or not. We’re talking about whether women even have the fundamental right to exist as individuals, to run their own households and compete for jobs and be considered on an equal footing with men in any arena at all in the first place.

[gehayi]

I was a child in the 1960s, a teenager in the 1970s, a young adult in the 1980s. This is what it was like: When I was growing up, it was considered unfortunate if a girl was good at sports. Girls were not allowed in Little League. Girls’ teams didn’t exist in high school, except at all-girls’ high schools. Boys played sports, and girls were the cheerleaders. People used to ask me as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said I wanted to be a brain surgeon or the first woman justice on the Supreme Court. Everyone told me it was impossible–those just weren’t realistic goals for a girl–the latter, especially, because you couldn’t trust women to judge fairly and rationally, after all. In the 1960s and 1970s, all women were identified by their marital status, even in arrest reports and obituaries. In elementary school, my science teacher referred to Pierre Curie as DOCTOR Curie and Marie Curie as MRS. Curie…because, as he put it, “she was just his wife.” (Both had doctorates and both were Nobel prize winners, so you would think that both would be accorded respect.) Companies could and did require women to wear dresses and skirts. Failure to do could and did get women fired. And it was legal. It was also legal to fire women for getting married or getting pregnant. The rationale was that a woman who was married or who had a child had no business working; that was what her husband was for. Aetna Insurance, the biggest insurance company in America, fired women for all of the above. A man could rape his wife. Legally. I can remember being twelve years old and reading about legal experts actually debating whether or not a man could actually be said to coerce his wife into having sex. This was a serious debate in 1974. The debate about marital rape came up in my law school, too, in 1984. Could a woman be raped by her husband? The guys all said no–a woman got married, so she was consenting to sex at all times. So I turned it around. I asked them if, since a man had gotten married, that meant that his wife could shove a dildo or a stick or something up his ass any time she wanted to for HER sexual pleasure. (Hey, I thought it was reasonable. If one gender was legally entitled to force sex on the other, then obviously the reverse should also be true.) The male law students didn’t like the idea. Interestingly, they commented that being treated like that would make them feel like a woman. My reaction was, “Thank you for proving my point…” The concept of date rape, when first proposed, was considered laughable. If a woman went out on a date, the argument of legal experts ran, sexual consent was implied. Even more sickening was the fact that in some states–even in the early 1980s–a man could rape his daughter…and it was no worse than a misdemeanor. Women taking self-defense classes in the 1970s and 1980s were frequently described in books and on TV as “cute.” The implication was that it was absurd for a woman to attempt to defend herself, but wasn’t it just adorable for her to try? I was expressly forbidden to take computer classes in junior and senior years of high school–1978-79 and 1979-80–because, as the principal told me, “Only boys have to know that kind of thing. You girls are going to get married, and you won’t use it.” When I was in college–from 1980 to 1984–there were no womens’ studies. The idea hadn’t occurred in many places because the presumption was that there was nothing TO study. My history professor–a man who had a doctorate in history–informed me quite seriously that women had never produced a noted painter, sculptor, composer, architect or scientist because…wait for it…womens’ brains were too small. (He was very surprised when I came up with a list of fifty women gifted in the arts and science, most of whom he had never heard of before.) When Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro as a running mate in 1984, the press hailed it as a disaster. What would happen, they asked fearfully, if Mondale died and Ferraro became president? What if an international crisis arose and she was menstruating? She could push the nuclear button in a fit of PMS! It would be the end of the WORLD!! …No, they WEREN’T kidding. On the surface, things are very different now than they were when I was a child, a teen and a young adult. But I’m afraid that people now do not realize what it was like then. I’ve read a lot of posts from young women who say that they are not feminists. If the only exposure to feminism they have is the work of extremists, I cannot blame them overmuch. I wish that I could tell them what feminism was like when it was new–when the dream of legal equality was just a dream, and hadn’t even begun to come true. When “woman’s work” was a sneer–and an overt putdown. When people tut-tutted over bright and athletic girls with the words, “Really, it’s a shame she’s not a boy.” That lack of feminism wasn’t all men opening doors and picking up checks. A lot of it was an attitude of patronizing contempt that hasn’t entirely died out, but which has become less publicly acceptable. I wish I could make them feel what it was like…when grown men were called “men” and grown women were “girls.”

[drst]

Know your history.

[hedwig-dordt]

So this, too, is what they mean saying “make America great again” and/or the good old days.

[shatterpath]

REBLOG FOREVER.

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Scientists have discovered a new moth with golden hair and a tiny penis. They've named it after Trump

Evolutionary biologist Vazrick Nazari has identified a new centimetre- wide moth, disclosing his finding on ZooKeys. It has a silky head of bright yellow scales, which the moth develops in adulthood, and its head has been described as orange-yellow in colouration, the body is white and the wings are brown or greyish. Also an important detail - its genitalia is “comparatively smaller” than that of the Neopalpa neonata, its close relative.

And best of all… it’s native habitat is the US/Mexico border!

And people say scientists are a humourless bunch!!

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Latin@ Rising An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy (2017)

“Latin@ Rising is the first anthology of science fiction and fantasy written by Latinos/as living in the United States. The book gives an overview to the field of Latino/a speculative literature, showing the great variety of stories being told by Latino/a writers. Fifty years ago the Latin American “Boom” introduced magical realism to the world; Latin@ Rising is the literature that has risen from the explosion that gave us García Márquez, Jorge Amado, Carlos Fuentes and others. 

The 21st century writers and artists of Latin@ Rising help us to imagine a Latino/a past, present, and future which have not been whitewashed by mainstream perspectives. Contrary to the popular perception, Latino/a Literature is not just magical realism and social realist protest literature–it also contains much speculative fiction. By showing the actual breadth of genres being used by Latino/a authors, Latin@ Rising will help extend the boundaries of the Latino/a literature canon.”

Edited by Matthew David Goodwin, Frederick Luis Aldama (Introduction)

Order it here

Matthew David Goodwin is an Assistant Professor in English at the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey. His work is centered on the topic of migration in Latino/a literature. In particular, he looks at the ways that science fiction, fantasy, and digital culture have been used to express the experience of migration. He completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst in 2013. He has published a number of essays on Latino/a speculative fiction for journals. 

Frederick Luis Aldama is University Distinguished Scholar as well as Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, Spanish and Portuguese, at Ohio State University where he is also founder and director of the White House Bright Spot Awarded LASER (Latino & Latin American Space for Enrichment & Research) that creates a pipeline for Latinos from 9th grade through graduate and professional school education. He specializes in Latino and Latin American literature, comic books, and film—and pop culture generally.

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[findchaos]

I’m only disappointed that no one else has made this sooner.

[womenarepersons]

A. Stiffler wins the internet and my heart.

[mingdoyle]

Rite of Spring #stravinsky #nijinsky

[handeaux]

Woman Invents Submarine, Husband Gets The Credit

Somehow, Annie Stanley’s idea became her husband’s claim to fame.

It all began with a trip to Newport News, Virginia. There, Annie Stanley and her husband, Charles M. Stanley, inspected a Holland submarine, the state of the art in submersible boats at the time. The officer in command said something that set off Annie’s curiosity. He said it took 40 minutes to submerge because the boat had to take on thousands of gallons of water to sink beneath the surface.

“When we were going away, I asked my husband if there was not some quicker way of submerging it. If they can make a boat go ahead or backward under the water, why can’t they make it go up and down?”

Mr. Stanley, who worked in a Hamilton stove factory, built a working model in which propellers at the front and rear of the submarine were mounted on a universal joint that could pivot from vertical to horizontal orientation. Under power, the Stanley model could submerge immediately.

The Stanleys approached Walter A. Knight, attorney with the Cincinnati firm of Hosea, Knight & Jones, to handle the patent application and began talking to foreign governments, specifically Eugene C. Pociey, vice consul of France, who had offices at 519 Main Street. The Cincinnati Post [17 April 1908] thought the new invention was just dandy:

“The Stanley boat submerges as quickly as the pilot can throw a lever and switch, probably two seconds. It can go up, down, straight ahead, obliquely or round and round. It is a perfect fish. If the mechanism gets out of order the boat rises instantly to the surface.”

According to the Cincinnati Post [20 April 1908], the Stanleys applied the same principal to the navigation of an airship, or dirigible. Mrs. Stanley believed that is where the money was.

“We don’t expect to get rich from the submarine. It may pay us something in royalties, but not a great fortune. I hope the airship patents will do better. You know the same idea applied to airships places the aerial craft in complete control of the operator.”

When the patent (939,344) was issued in November 1909, Mrs. Stanley’s name was nowhere listed on the paperwork, possibly because she was not a United States citizen. Depending on the Census, Annie (she also went by Anna) is listed as German, Austrian, or Bohemian by birth. In addition to the submarine, Mr. Stanley patented a  “Safety shutter device for moving-picture apparatus” (Pat. 944749 A) and a turntable for water chutes (Pat. 930629 A), neither of which credit his wife with any part of the invention.

While the French government took a pass on the Stanley submarine, Colonel I.M. “Ike” Martin, the impresario in charge of Chester Park, signed “Captain” Charles M. Stanley to a 17-week contract. The newly commissioned “captain” was hired to demonstrate submarine and airship for crowds at the amusement park out on Spring Grove Avenue. The Cincinnati Post [21 April 1908] reported:

“Work will commence at once upon the construction of a glass tank in which the new submarine model will be shown darting about in the water and rising and submerging at the will of the operator.”

Colonel Martin cancelled “Captain” Stanley’s contract after just five weeks and Stanley spent some fruitless months in court trying to recoup his lost pay.

With the world embroiled in World War I, interest in submarines revived and Charles Stanley hit the vaudeville circuit with his aquarium and models. The United States was still a technically neutral country in 1916 when he appeared onstage at the Keith Theater on Walnut between Fifth and Sixth. The reviews [Cincinnati Post 14 August 1916] were favorable:

“Capt. Charles Stanley’s miniature submarine exhibition at B.F. Keith’s this week is unusually interesting and instructive. Toy undersea boats, manipulated in a glass tank, show in detail the operation of the deadly ‘subs,’ including the firing of a torpedo.”

None of the inventions seem to have panned out for Charles and Annie Stanley. Charles kept his job at the stove factory and, when he left that job, it was to take a job as a watchman at one of Hamilton’s paper mills.

Charles was 74 when a heart attack felled him in 1944. Annie survived until 1963. The Stanleys are buried side by side in Hamilton’s Saint Stephen Cemetery.

[vegetableadventures]

These Crazy Ivans were indoctrinated with only one purpose since they were seeds.

[womenarepersons]

Trump in bed with white supremacists and Putin…

[mingdoyle]

WORK 💥 FIGHT 💥 RESIST 💥 PERSIST

[womenarepersons]

Work! Fight! Resist! Persist! Let's do this shit!

[womenarepersons]

“You’ll never work in this town again.” A cliché to be sure, but also what a producer threatened when I refused to pose semi-naked on the…

In the process of pitching this show to a major network, the typical follow-up emails were sent to executives at this network. In this email chain, this producer chose to email the following:

“And Mila is a mega star. One of biggest actors in Hollywood and soon to be Ashton’s wife and baby momma!!!”

This is the entirety of his email. Factual inaccuracies aside, he reduced my value to nothing more than my relationship to a successful man and my ability to bear children. It ignored my (and my team’s) significant creative and logistical contributions.

We withdrew our involvement in the project.

YAS.

Also, this is part of the problem with the rhetoric behind men’s reasoning behind not supporting Trump due to the comment about grabbing women by the pussy. Many men following said that they have wives, daughters, mothers, etc., and that this was offensive to them. IT’S NOT OFFENSIVE BY ITSELF?! TO YOU--AS A PERSON?! That you have relegate women’s statuses as branches of your own individuality takes away from their individuality, their voice, and their power.

[vegetableadventures]

Doug went under the knife this autumn and looks like he’s just loving life.

[womenarepersons]

Shameless plug: I started a biweekly webcomic, everyone! <3

[blacknerdproblems]

It’s the final week for this Kickstarter from @youneekstudios Okupe the folks behind E.X.O. The Legend of Wale Williams–this comic project is titled, “Malika” and we want to make we spread the word during its last week as a KS! #Malika #royeokupe #africanqueen #africancomicbook #blacknerdproblems http://blacknerdproblems.com/move-over-xena-an-african-warrior-queen-conquers-in-new-series-malika/

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This Parody Of Sexist Pickup Truck Commercials Is Relatable AF, Especially If You've Lived In The South — VIDEO

As someone who once lived in the capital of Country Music Songs About Doing Stuff To Women In Pickup Trucks — more formally known as Nashville — there is nothing quite as relatable as this parody of sexist pickup truck commercials, brought to this un

This is perfect. As more people are satisfied being single and gender roles are becoming moot, let’s rethink gender-specific marketing.

[womenarepersons]

Love this.

[womenarepersons]

The Ad Industry Helped This Duo Create a Powerful Documentary About Refugees

Emily Moore, a freelance executive producer/senior producer, and Joyce Chen, director of integrated production at Heat, had a great story to share with the world—the heart-wrenching story of Aicha Diop, a West African refugee who had to leave her five children behind to come to America—but they needed money to fund the project and at fi

[womenarepersons]

Jill Soloway's speech on the Female Gaze, as opposed to the Male Gaze.

The Female Gaze. Part One. Reclaiming the body, using it with intention to communicate Feeling Seeing.

Part Two. I also think the Female Gaze is also using the camera to take on the very nuanced, occasionally impossible task of showing us how it feels to be THE OBJECT of the Gaze.

​The camera talks out at you from its position as the receiver of the gaze. This piece of the triangle reps the Gazed gaze. This is how it feels to be seen.

I think Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank did that, and Kenny Lonergan’s Margaret, Eliza Hittman’s IT FELT LIKE LOVE – yes, the female gaze can be made by anyone, male or female, cis or trans --

These films use a kind of heroines journey structure – a looping around the inside of the body – now this is not just about a feeling but about a story shape where we revel in an ever more intense awareness of a protagonist’s power – I’d even say King of Comedy is a Heroine’s Journey in this way, we fall backwards with Rupert Pupkin, spiraling in an ever illuminated self-punishing story of having enraged or engaged the male gaze. In that case it was Jerry Lewis or fame.

In those other three cases though, we were more specifically in coming of age tales – come feel with me specifically how I become as I become what men see. It’s about what I’m doing by being seen -- my effect -- this is what it causes in the world.

​The gazed gaze.

This third thing involves the way THE FEMALE GAZE DARES to return the gaze. It’s not the gazed gaze. It’s the gaze on the gazers. It’s about how it feels to stand here in the world HAVING BEEN SEEN our entire lives.

​Or, in a line I heard in a web series today, we don’t write culture, we’re written by it.

It says WE SEE YOU, SEEING US.

It says, I don’t want to be the OBJECT any longer, I would like to be the SUBJECT, and with that SUBJECTIVITY I can name you as the OBJECT.

The object becomes you. Chismales. It feels weird, right. Not a sexy calendar or a gender reversal thing.

This would be the third leg of the triangle and I think it’s the most important, and the one that really truly has been almost entirely NOT YET DONE.

It’s less about a filmic language – although it could easily employ either of the techniques I just mentioned – but rather

This part of the female gaze is a SOCIOPOLITCAL justice-demanding way of art making.