Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross

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Truth-out.org had a piece recently on 'American Exceptionalism'---basically the professed belief by the American ruling classes that whatever they do, however evil and violent, is justified because the United States is by definition a saintly land doing God's work, and is exempt from the moral standards applied to other nations. It's why Obama and Bush before him can order invasions, extra-legal murders, and drone attacks that slaughter untold numbers of civilians, and still claim without visible irony to be the leaders of 'the greatest nation on earth'. We are now, by design, in a state of endless 'war' that gives Congress and the president a blank check to fund deadly weapons and military aggression in perpetuity. Such national arrogance and self-delusion will not last forever; they never do.

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My last post has been removed of here? I have not done anything wrong. What about my right for free speech. Thought this was an open site where anyones comments could be posted.

Models who look like the picture on the right cost more money (£600) than people who look like the pic on the left (£250), and the photoshopping time is a tiny cost (£6.50).

Why are fashion models so thin?

An A line skirt in size 0 has a 23" waist 
and in size 6 a 30 inch waist. 

Across a whole collection you save 30% in material costs by going for size 0.and as all your models must be able to wear any of the garments in the collection they have to be the same size. Creating a collection isn't cheap, and there's no guarantee of success, and no copyright on your designs and people tend to gravitate towards solutions with the lowest costs.

One of my favorite Mae West quotes is on why the older woman / younger man is better than the reverse

Twenty goes into eighty more times than eighty goes into twenty.

First, Phillips was writing about pinup artists, and I still have no problem with her statement. It was her opinion; it can be disputed.

For all you self-proclaimed feminists, I see an enormous difference between the quote from Phillips and the quite common statements in history that women cannot be artists, women cannot be great artists, women cannot even be good artists. I'm not really in the mood to look some up for you, but they are readily available.

And having to struggle in this world and being able, emotionally, to face what has been done to people and the planet, I will stick with my statement about vicious white males. I don't know of any African men coming to the U.S. and circumcising American men wholesale (Bill Clinton and his foundation). I don't know of any Asians doing drug testing on Americans or Europeans (as we are doing in Latin America and Africa). I don't know of any ordinary people of color (I am not talking about men in uniform) who have picnicked at the hangings of white people (they used to send picture postcards of lynchings). I live in the U.S.A., not in some past empire (the only non-Caucasians mentioned being the Japanese), and every day in every way I am inundated with the viciousness of white males and their sycophantic allies.

This conversation reminds me of sitting in church and hearing people talk about how great pacifism is. Pacifism is a superlative concept, but it is one much more easily indulged in by people who are safe and comfortable. There are some who have suggested we ARE in a war, a war in which many women, many children, and many people of color suffer and die daily. Very easy to talk about how the world should be, much easier than facing how the world is. And that means listening to people tell very ugly stories of real people's lives, no matter how much pain you suffer while listening.

To re-quote Marianne Ohl Phillips, whom Carlin cites above, "No man, no matter how knowledgeable, can be as familiar with the feminine form as a woman." This statement definitely takes in ALL men, including all male fine artists as well as all male pinup artists. It would also have to follow that no woman could possibly render a male as well as a man could---if we accept these premises. It's the divisiveness of these lines of thinking that I find both false and destructive. They place our particulars above our common humanity.

It's totally natural that people should enjoy positive statements about their group. However, to me it only makes sense if these statements are true, not just pleasant to hear. Bolstering one's collective ego through sweeping and questionable claims ("Gay parents are not just wonderful parents, they're the best parents!") doesn't make people feel better in the end. I think it's possible---indeed necessary---to raise up an oppressed group of people without trying to lower some other group's innate value at the same time. Yes, injustices must be corrected, but in a way that respects our common humanity and is disrespectful towards none. You're not alone in viewing 'vicious white males' and their allies as the enemy, but I would caution against any such blanket labels or divisions. The holders of power can and do shift. The Japanese, the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, white Europeans, and many other groups have at one time or another all seen themselves as indisputably superior, naturally entitled to oppress and exploit any 'lesser' group they pleased. This is what ultimately comes of these 'superior' and 'inferior' divisions, and it's time to end them.

The artists gender difference between the pinup paintings is an interesting and useful observation. But the statement

“It is infinitely logical that these exquisite creatures were painted by a male. No woman, no matter how knowledgeable, can be as familiar with the masculine form as a man.”

is a sexist sweeping generalisation about the artistic ability of everyone based on gender. Gender is fluid. I think the reason people do this is because, we're heavily influenced by what we see around us, and it's true that for the lightning swift judgements our subconscious has to make about strangers every day "Clothing maketh the person" and clothes are usually gender polarised, but the people inside them aren't. Whatever the reason and which ever gender they're about, these "all women are bad drivers" type sexist sweeping comments are tiresome.

Feminism to me is about correcting gender unfairness, which 95% of the time involves emancipating women, that's why it's called Feminism, and I'd like it to get 100% support from all humans, it's not a gender war.

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I don't see anything in the quote Carlin posted that says all women artists draw women better and more accurately than male artists. The author of the piece was speaking specifically about pinup paintings, a subject on which she apparently was an expert. I see nothing wrong with her statement because she knows a helluva lot more about pinup art than I do.

I would suggest to you that positive claims about homosexuals, women, people of color, etc, are hardly EXACT mirrors of the claims by people in power. First, their affirmations do not come with centuries of power and privilege, including laws that exclude and oppress others. Second, I may dream of a better world, but I am fully cognizant of this world in which people are blamed and shamed for their genitalia, their skin color, their sexual orientation, their sexual proclivities. Their enjoyment of anything that suggests they are not inferior is hardly comparable to the viciousness of white males (supported by females and males of color who have chosen to throw in their lot with their rulers).

Patrick, you are a sensitive and thinking human being, but you are also male, white, middle-class, straight and monogamous. What I would like you to consider is the messages one receives if one isn't male, white, middle-class and straight. Every day in every way, the message is that one is inferior, lacking, stupid, sick, lazy, etc. This is why people enjoy reading the results of a study that shows homosexual couples are better parents, women draw better pinups, college-educated people are more obedient to authority, etc. The competition was not created by the underclasses, it was set in concrete by the men and women who say their way is the only way.

It takes a lot of the other sort of messages to get past the social norms of our culture. What we need to ask ourselves is how we personally are stuck in those norms, not how people who don't fit in find affirmation in positive messages about themselves.