I Took Self Portraits To Show Some Of The Double Standards In Our Society
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I have spent the last year mentally acquiring social double standards, working them out on paper and then executing each one as a self-portrait. The idea came to me while serving martinis at 11 am to the wealthy people of my county.
Who were they to deem this act classy while shaming a person drinking vodka out of a bottle before noon? Thus “Double Standards” was born.
As you can imagine, the concepts easily started flowing once I drew my attention to the subject. We are a society of finger pointers. Whether we state our opinions out loud or keep them internal, we are all guilty of looking at another human being and saying: “Ugh, can you BELIEVE they did/are doing this, that, blah. blah. blah.”
We shame mothers for staying home and “being lazy” while condemning mothers who go back to work as “selfish.” We scoff at a woman for having body hair while men are free to No Shave November. Men attend the beach topless and women are deemed whores for the same act.
It’s time to say “NO! Fuck off, you are not my judge.”
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Female body hair vs. male body hair
Classy drunk vs. trashy drunk
A man’s Nipple vs. woman’s nipple
Working mom vs. stay at home mom
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Beautifully done! Ironically the woman's nipples are hidden behind "mature content" I had to click on to see the image... which confirms this double standard.
Thank you! Yes!! Isn't that amazing, especially because the photo is meant to look like it's a male body and yet it's still "mature content" because theres weight behind the nipple haha
I like this one & I also like the ones with men cutting out women's nipples and pasting then over their own. Too funny! Our society is quite prudish.
It's mature content because our culture has done a human thing to treat women's breasts as special for intimacy and men's arousal around it is physically responsive. Why we want agreater degree of nudity to be common place and mundane is beyond me.
Men are attracted to breasts because they show signs of maturaty and motherhood, which is why they get aroused and which is also why it is rendered mature content. It's not a double standard, it's a reasonable standard.
You made something remarkable, please do more! These are awesome.
Thank you!! I defiantly plan on it!
You go girl! I really enjoyed these, and the "nipples" one actually surprised me in a good way. Love your work!
This raises such an interesting dilemma. What would happen if you did a full set of "men with breasts" and then vice-versa. this can throw the entire thing off. Would it be a topless woman with male nipples and chest area that would be "mature" or the women's breasts on men that constitute "breasts" ? -- this could be huge! The immediate view of the "man with breasts" (nice ones!) has absolutely zero sexual appeal (to me), and strangely, neither does the woman, any more... It's brilliant and you MUST MUST MUST take this further, you're onto something big here!
Another huge double standard: Bald head. Absolutely not a problem for men, they can be bald at any age and nobody cares. Bald women? That is considered totally unacceptable and super-weird. Most women become hysterical even at slightest hint of hair thinning.
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That men can be bald at any age? You know fucking nothing tbh.
Warawk: Men can shave their heads at any time, as well as naturally go bald young, and nobody is going to think much of them having a bald head. If a woman has short hair/a bald head she's usually called a dyke or some other such insult and seen as not a real woman.
Beautifully done! Ironically the woman's nipples are hidden behind "mature content" I had to click on to see the image... which confirms this double standard.
Thank you! Yes!! Isn't that amazing, especially because the photo is meant to look like it's a male body and yet it's still "mature content" because theres weight behind the nipple haha
I like this one & I also like the ones with men cutting out women's nipples and pasting then over their own. Too funny! Our society is quite prudish.
It's mature content because our culture has done a human thing to treat women's breasts as special for intimacy and men's arousal around it is physically responsive. Why we want agreater degree of nudity to be common place and mundane is beyond me.
Men are attracted to breasts because they show signs of maturaty and motherhood, which is why they get aroused and which is also why it is rendered mature content. It's not a double standard, it's a reasonable standard.
You made something remarkable, please do more! These are awesome.
Thank you!! I defiantly plan on it!
You go girl! I really enjoyed these, and the "nipples" one actually surprised me in a good way. Love your work!
This raises such an interesting dilemma. What would happen if you did a full set of "men with breasts" and then vice-versa. this can throw the entire thing off. Would it be a topless woman with male nipples and chest area that would be "mature" or the women's breasts on men that constitute "breasts" ? -- this could be huge! The immediate view of the "man with breasts" (nice ones!) has absolutely zero sexual appeal (to me), and strangely, neither does the woman, any more... It's brilliant and you MUST MUST MUST take this further, you're onto something big here!
Another huge double standard: Bald head. Absolutely not a problem for men, they can be bald at any age and nobody cares. Bald women? That is considered totally unacceptable and super-weird. Most women become hysterical even at slightest hint of hair thinning.
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That men can be bald at any age? You know fucking nothing tbh.
Warawk: Men can shave their heads at any time, as well as naturally go bald young, and nobody is going to think much of them having a bald head. If a woman has short hair/a bald head she's usually called a dyke or some other such insult and seen as not a real woman.