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Artist Reveals What’s Wrong With Our Modern Society In These 30 Satirical Illustrations
Today we’d like for you to meet the artist Mahnaz Yazdani. Mahnaz’s deep and meaningful work often portrays society's problems in surrealistic illustrations that tend to show how everyday people (just like us) suffer from things that seemingly the rest of our modern society refuses to acknowledge more often than not.
One could say we probably have gotten used to the said problems just because we are always surrounded by them, so much that we don't even notice them anymore. However, things such as war, global pandemic, and problems revolving around our mental health aren’t going anywhere any time soon.
All in all, Yazdani’s work might give you a thought or two regarding the way we live currently.
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Seen this happen in front of me irl in a park, and it was frustrating to say the least
Bored Panda also reached out to the artist to find out a little bit more about her and her work.
"I am a storyteller who tells most of her stories in her comics and animations. I started my art journey as an animator and cartoonist twenty years ago. My focus was on making animation for years. Since 2015, I have been professionally drawing editorial cartoons. I had so many stories in my mind waiting to be created, but animating all of them needed lots of years, so I chose comic style to tell my stories faster."
"Maybe the main characteristic of mine has led me to create such art: a humoristic outlook and thinking about the feelings of other people, for example, how does a kid feel under bombardment. Those help me to create a humorous story and then tell it in the shape of a comic, cartoon, or animation."
So beautifully illustrated, yet so devistately accurate and confronting. Currently we are being told to take our empty plastic bags back to our house, because the seahorses are dying.
Precarious, but I see it another way too. (Isn't art great?). (Often and as depicted here) the man's work is in one place. The woman needs to be on the move as she has just as much work at home and with the kids and in society. Her desk needs to have wheel(s)! (Yes, I'm sure it's not always the case. I'm not looking for an argument just sharing an opinion about the picture.).
So true, I had to buy some softball equipment, but the only good bats and stuff were for the men!😤
I'd like to see the construction site or other dangerous/high risk jobs equivalent of this picture
Maybe something like women receiving tools that are visibly less stable?
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De fact that people still don't know what is going on is a bit disturbing. Because it's a really big problem. Many people who see it simply don't care. It's going about the fact that a workplace for man is way more stable than a workplace for women. It's called sexism. Many people (including woman's) don't get it. It also can be unstable for man but it is something that is more common with woman's. Weird creepy comments and sometimes someone is going to far(this happens way more than people might wanna believe)
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I'm not sure I agree with this as of where we are now. It's not perfect but I wouldn't say this is normal in society. So I think this is offensive to both sexes and offensive to average work space. I've seen plenty of companies where the environment is either equal or better for the female employees
Yuuuuuup. I have seen this so many times in my own workplace, and I'm sick of it. The bar for men is so low, yet they often expect praise for doing the absolute bare minimum. Then they come home and expect their wives to cook their dinner, clean up, feed the kids and get them ready for bed, and maintain everyone's schedules/set up appointments for him on top of all that. Even though they both work full time. Heck, even if she works more than he does! We call a career-focused woman "neglectful", yet call a career-focused man "ambitious".
This is so not the case anymore. Where do you guys live that women are still mistreated at work? I'd LOVE to be mistreated at work. That shits free money. My mistake, actually. I didn't realize what country the artist was from. My bad.
I personally see it as how women are expected to balance out work and home life. It's not easy. Many of the women in my family are forced to balance both while being the sole breadwinner ( we are American ) that's not to say that men never face harassment, but it's hella frequent for women.
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Well i can understand the ball desk cause woman has to do it all on the go, while man can take his time at it. So very frustrating.
Might I suggest a child standing beside the women or maybe you left that to our imagination.
I see it as how men might say women can't think they have it harder bc the workload is the same but they don't realize that the methods needed to do the work is much more difficult when women have obstacles that they don't
He;"And see, it isn't any harder to work at than mine, as a matter of fact," sits down types a word;" Wow, that's so cool, you're gonna love it." He goes back to his desk, smirking, and mumbling "that'll teach her".
Because she an intellectual or speaking as if to say shes on her period rather than a roll on the ball or thinking outside of the box....
An endless balancing act with no solid foundation for so many...too many.
Women are generally said to have to balance everything. Maybe that's what it's referring to? 🤔
That one is a bit confusing to me. I guess it's about workplace sexism ? No idea about specifics
I thought it was referencing how women seem to like more creative exercise. Like sitting on an exercise ball to maintain their core instead of sitting on a chair. The balancing desk just works a different body part.
To succeed, a woman must do everything twice as well as a man. Fortunately that's not difficult.
Just about every f*****g day I'm seeing articles about The Gender Pay Gap and how women are paid at least 1/3 less than their male colleagues and then right after that I see articles complaining about how women can't find men to date and marry that are as smart, qualified, and economically advantaged as them. Women complain about men mansplaining to them, and then whine and b***h about how men won't help them at work when they need it.
Oh yeah women have it so hard, what with companies being required to give them executive positions simply because of them having vaginas.
The only problem with modern society is that leftists cry too much and need to toughen up.
What a joke. I guess that's why Men are more suicidal, work more hours, made by a woman to help women maintain their victim hood. How bout you show all the jobs only men do that a woman would never dream of doing that make society run. Boohoo, I've been sexually harassed by women at work too terrible sad double standards.
There are actually a lot of studies that say women are twice as likely to have depression. 90% of adult raped victims are female. No one should be sexually harassed at work. I'm sorry that happened to you and I hope you don't tolerate it. It is so hard to function at work when people are telling you all these things they want to do to you in passing and constantly make comments on your appearance like you are a piece of meat. There are women out there that work and work tirelessly to make ends meet because they have no one else. I have worked jobs that are for "men" and get told not to help with any heavy lifting. Women are treated as fragile things that should sit in the corner while the big boys do all the work. I hate not being able to help. I don't speak for all women, but you don't either. I don't care if this doesn't change your mind. It is the awareness that matters.
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Omg really? Everybody is always held back right? Except white men? We just have everything so god damn easy. Idiots.
I see that it might be harder to understand if you are not a woman. I personally have experienced a lot of men telling me that I'm not cut out for a job that does not involve physical labor because I am a woman. I have been singled out as the female and sexually harassed and been told to smile more in a field that does not involve customer service. Plenty of woman not only have to deal with this, but also taking on a majority of cleaning, cooking and child care for the family. I'm glad that in your world at least woman are being treated fairly and with respect and I hope you respect them and instead of making real issues seem small.
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In the age of the Internet, the lack of access to stable and high-speed Internet means the deprivation of job opportunities, education, social, cultural and all the facilities that are just available online.
Tbh, you can get lost in the world of your garden; time passes so differently there
Books and written language are the greatest informational tools of all the centuries.
Google translation of her post on Instagram: For my mother and aunts ... My mother and aunts spent many years of their lives behind the carpet, from childhood to the years they experienced motherhood. The weavers built a ladder to bring themselves and their families to what they are now and will be. I'm proud of having such strong women in my life. Women who, believing in better tomorrows, bought the hardest and continue to buy ... Your hard-working hands are the most beautiful hands ....
We do need to consume less drinking water, but somehow I don't think this will solve this problem.
Literally happened to a friend. Her house was older and NOT in a flood zone. Developer put in condos that caused her property to periodically flood when it rained. It was loveable until hurricane Irma came through and her house got 4 ft of water in it. No flood insurance (because again, NOT IN A FLOOD ZONE), but homeowner's insurance refused to pay because it was a flood event. Turns out the permits for the condos were illegally issued because it was pretty clear what works happen to the properties on the downward slope of the ground they built up to build the condos, bus sure couldn't find an attorney to take the case to sue the county and the contractor for the damage.
Translation of Instagram description: hope for a piece of bread! (Wave of Iranian workers moving to work in Iraqi Kurdistan)
Note: this post originally had 70 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Yes, they are powerful! Made me think and some made me not so proud to be a human being. These are a call to action for all of us.
To the people saying these made no sense or were "completely wrong"(?) Did you not notice that this is not an American cartoon, these may not be America's problems, but they used to be, and they still are problems in other countries. All like is not like you live in the states, they DO have rampart problems over discrimination of women, their poor populations have no way of bringing themselves out of poverty, most of their children have no access to education. How can you say something didn't make sense or that the message was wrong when in reality you just didn't get it...
⬆️When you try to be funny and you fail...
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All I can say is too bad. It's how life is and it's gonna be unfair, I stopped caring cause as long as it isn't me I'm alright. I have my own problems to deal with so I can't afford to care about some stranger's problem. Sure, it's a powerful message but no one will care because as long as it isn't them there isn't a reason to, you did bring awareness but no one is going to do s**t about it.
we live in a society where phone government the social app you when it do it? log by bolb 😭😭😭😭😭
That's not the type of stuff you will find here.
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Yes, they are powerful! Made me think and some made me not so proud to be a human being. These are a call to action for all of us.
To the people saying these made no sense or were "completely wrong"(?) Did you not notice that this is not an American cartoon, these may not be America's problems, but they used to be, and they still are problems in other countries. All like is not like you live in the states, they DO have rampart problems over discrimination of women, their poor populations have no way of bringing themselves out of poverty, most of their children have no access to education. How can you say something didn't make sense or that the message was wrong when in reality you just didn't get it...
⬆️When you try to be funny and you fail...
Load More Replies... All I can say is too bad. It's how life is and it's gonna be unfair, I stopped caring cause as long as it isn't me I'm alright. I have my own problems to deal with so I can't afford to care about some stranger's problem. Sure, it's a powerful message but no one will care because as long as it isn't them there isn't a reason to, you did bring awareness but no one is going to do s**t about it.
we live in a society where phone government the social app you when it do it? log by bolb 😭😭😭😭😭
That's not the type of stuff you will find here.
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