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[baranohanayome]

Is it bad I like pin-up art?

I know that it's made, presumably, for the sexual titilation of men and that, as a good feminist, I should dislike it at least, if not completely loathe it. Or, you know, appropriate it to make a social/political statementI know that, as a woman and as an asexual, I'm not the intended audience for the work

Comments

[purejuice]

i think this is eminently sane. one of helen gurley brown's most sane declarations about all the tit on the cover of cosmo (a women's magazine) was, everybody likes to look at cleavage.

[baranohanayome]

I just like curves, I think. I don't like a lot of boxy, geometric shapes like rectangles, squares, trapezoids, et cetera; I much prefer circles and spirals and stuff like that, more organic lines. It's just more pleasing to look at, which is probably why I find the female nude in classical art and pin-up girls more appealling. So, I think Brown's statement has merit. =3