Most rediculous and disgusting news item of the day

[redcactusflower]

The Pro-Life listserve I belong to sent me a link to this story about a Yale Student whose senior art project consisted of artificially inseminating herself with donated sperm, inducing miscarriages, and then artistically presenting the evidence (video and displays of her own blood.) Said display is supposed "to spark conversation and debate on the

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[redcactusflower]

ooh, please do

[watchreader]

a) my understanding was that the art was mostly about our reaction to the story. That's why part of the art included a press release.
b) I don't see why any Yale admins would lose their positions over this, as the university wasn't responsible for the student's behavior
c) I find it interesting that rather than try to understand the student's perspective, you insist she must be addicted to harmful narcotics (which is news to me).
d) It was fake anyway, so there isn't much to be outraged over.
e) It worked. Right now we're talking about this girl's artwork. Is it repugnant that she used her own body parts as art? Where is the line drawn, and why draw the line at menstrual blood? Is a woman's fertility so threatening that it is obscene, whereas normal blood would be fine?

While in general I don't like art, I find this just as objectionable and stupid as most other art. Which is to say, I'd find this about as useless as anything in the Vatican.

[redcactusflower]

a)I knew I could count on you to disagree with me

[watchreader]

ahh, the admin comment was sarcastic

[watchreader]

Too illustrate the point further, imagine that instead of studying art, we studied processed cheese. Don't get me wrong, processed cheese is important. Processed cheese is important, and it's history tells us a lot about how people lived through the ages. Processed cheese has flavor and color, and brings out a variety of emotion. But I would argue that it's a bit silly to have processed cheese history experts at universities. I wouldn't want textbooks, thousands of pages long, dedicated to processed cheese and used in freshman classes. Imagine if there were hundreds of museums dedicated to the various cheesemakers throughout history, with carefully preserved samples (and some fakes, too protect the originals) out on display. That's happening, but it's with "paintings" instead of cheese.

And hey, if you like processed cheese and really like studying it's history over thousands of years down to painful details, I'm not going to say you can't. But I will call it useless. Because seriously, processed cheese?

[wmk06]

A) This is significantly more controversial AND gross than the sex workers art show (I say this as someone who believes burlesque is art) and B) Ditto the above poster that the administration has nothing to do with one student's art project.

That said, modern art is total bosh! Being overeducated and unemployable, I think next year I will move to Williamsburg (Brooklyn) and throw paint at walls and declare myself a tortured genius while waiting for the paychecks to roll in. (Hey, what are YOUR plans for next year? :P)

[redcactusflower]

oh yeah, you should totally move to Williamsburg. I hear it is full of StuffWhitePeopleLike (tm) (Please tell you know the blog I refer to)

Next year is up in the air. Until I decide just how overeducated I want to be, I hope to do a year of service in St. Louis, MO. The parents are surprisingly cool with me fleeing the nest, but of course have found other random reasons to be hesistant. (How will I get around the city? What if I have to miss out on our August tickets to the Lion King?)I find out Thursday if the service org accepted me. They were going to call on Blowout, but I nipped that in the bud. 0:)