Mirror images of male rage

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2009-05-21 00:00

Article here. Excerpt:

'GERMAINE Greer's provocative essay On Rage, which fuelled heated debate about male violence in indigenous communities, was a revelation for Ben Quilty. "Others say that On Rage is less about masculinity and more about indigenous culture," says Quilty, a young, white Australian from a suburban background.
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"Feminism did happen, and then the whole thing with gender studies and women's studies," he says. "But back at university, I was the only man in a course studying it, even though it made more sense that, post-feminism, men should be studying it.

"That's what should happen after feminism, that men should rediscover themselves, but there's no way men were able to have any input.

"Let it happen, feminism, then let men talk about it, but men are hopeless at talking about it, and that's why there are not a lot of men making work about what it meant to be masculine in the pre-feminist days."
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The artist's work is about "the cult of masculinity", Slade says, "expressing the rage, boredom and oblivion of growing up as a white male in Australia". She describes the huge Smashed self-portraits as "the death wish of the Aussie male played out in paint".
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"There's a really fashionable thing for young men to make very soft work, often using watercolours, exploring sensitive men, with young men, naked, lying around," he says. "It's sort of homoerotic, even homosexual, although most of the guys making this work are not homosexual themselves.'

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'"There's a really fashionable thing for young men to make very soft work, often using watercolours, exploring sensitive men, with young men, naked, lying around," he says. "It's sort of homoerotic, even homosexual, although most of the guys making this work are not homosexual themselves.'

sigh... well, nothing wrong with it per se, I suppose. But if the boys are going to ask themselves what being male was like before feminism, I am reasonably certain that boys in most times past* prior to feminism didn't lie around naked together painting watercolors representing their feelings.

*ancient Greece and maybe a few other places excepted, of course.

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Submitted by mcc99 on Thu, 2009-05-21 01:48

Obviously there is an effort to feminize men, or to make us gay.

But what is the reason for this?

It is to control men better?

It is because feminist are affraid of men superior creativity?

Anyway this has to stop.

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Submitted by Hulkmania on Thu, 2009-05-21 16:13

So in the post-feminist world, a man has to paint watercolors of nude boys to meet the standard for sensitivity? These people are just warped. It used to be that if a man plowed his fields until his hands bled to put food on his family's table, he was understood as a loving, honorable man. Now if a man puts in a 60 hour week to provide for his family, he is considered to be out of touch with his wife and kids.

This kind of artwork makes one thing plainly obvious: viewing men from a feminist perspective is laughable. Women don't understand men, what it is to be a man, or what it means for a man to be in touch with his own nature.

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Submitted by dungone on Sun, 2009-05-24 17:36