Mad Woman

[faustfatale]

Before you all tell me how sexy I am in this painting created for this year’s NoirCon, give me a chance to explain how I feel about it.

Comments

Re: Nope Don't Agree with You

[inkgrrl]

This was definitely about Christa - in case you hadn't noticed, it *is* her face/body on the page. That's about as about Christa as it gets. If "non-identifiable female" were used as the damsel in distress then your argument for archetype might have some validity, but that's clearly not what we're looking at. Trying to gaslight us into agreeing with the in-joke and chuckling and slapping each other on the back about the intended irony is just as offensive as the actual image itself. And if Christa's image was only used by the artist as a stand-in for an archetype, that makes it even more insulting, especially in light of how she found out about it. What I find hard to believe is that neither the artist nor the event folks understand how disrespectful this is - if we're going to employ tropes to tell a story, then we damned better get the tropes right. Damsel in distress is hardly a noir trope, so the artist got that flat wrong no matter whose likeness he used. This was poorly done by the artist and whoever okayed that cover. And I'ma stop there before I rant.