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CTyankee

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29. I don't know if you saw my art Challenge last Friday but some sexist stuff surfaced

Wed Dec 11, 2013, 03:09 PM

Dec 2013

which IMO was pure harassment of BainsBane and a violation of the whole spirit of the thread.

So I did respond:

89. why are you keeping this up?

This is just a nice little place where art lovers come on Friday afternoon to talk about and share experiences with art. The Challenge is a gentle place. I am not at all happy with what you have come here and done. In fact, I am very angry, even more so because you are persisting with it. Please leave us alone.

It is very discouraging to say the least. I have been doing these Challenges for several years now and have never seen anything like that whole exchange. BainsBane's interest and participation was in the art under discussion. Yet here was dragged in Femen and snark about mild nudity in a 350 year old Dutch masterpiece. I was truly not expecting such outrageous behavior and I"m still a little shaken over it.

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Did you see the thread in GD? BainsBane Dec 2013 #1

They don't even try to hide their sexism any more. Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2013 #2

Is it me or is DU strangely "attracting" more sexists to post here? CTyankee Dec 2013 #8

the whole system has been created to give power to the sexist and the system shuts women up. seabeyond Dec 2013 #10

I don't know if you saw my art Challenge last Friday but some sexist stuff surfaced CTyankee Dec 2013 #29

Yes. It is thru out du and even your thread. Had to throw out a nipple and "tit" joke seabeyond Dec 2013 #30

I once did a Challenge here on "The Male Gaze" in art and put that up for discussion because I think CTyankee Dec 2013 #31

we had a really good OP on this. i learned a lot. they didnt shy away from using women in a seabeyond Dec 2013 #32

Yep. redqueen Dec 2013 #12

i had a post hidden for saying dick in womans mouth in a thread justifying violent porn... they can seabeyond Dec 2013 #15

Pictures are allowed to stand. Descriptions of the pictures are hidden. Yes. Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2013 #17

if it absolutely does not prove how hypocrites need their offensive to be sugar coated seabeyond Dec 2013 #18

Just because a woman has pretty silk ribbons does not mean that she is still NOT Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2013 #22

so fuckin right on. blur the edges, white on red, candle light... oh the romance seabeyond Dec 2013 #24

and i gotta say. i keep hearing administration. i keep hearing these very people state 1A. seabeyond Dec 2013 #19

Not just 1A but, omg it is the sacred Art Form!! Yee Gads. ART!!!!! Express yourself. Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2013 #23

only ONE way. you went their way in art, then veered off in the other direction. NOT allowed seabeyond Dec 2013 #25

plus One Million, redqueen. what you said. Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2013 #16

What was striking about that was that feminists who often don't get along on any other issue... MadrasT Dec 2013 #27

Yeah ismnotwasm Dec 2013 #3

Saw it this am and alerted on it maddezmom Dec 2013 #11

i gave up. i almost never alert cause it is almost never hidden. pavlov.... nt seabeyond Dec 2013 #13

I didn't think it would be hidden. I figured it was pointless. BainsBane Dec 2013 #14

Found the post maddezmom Dec 2013 #20

Yeah, that I didn't realize. I focused on the last line. That was shocking to me. BainsBane Dec 2013 #21

well, since assange is being accused of treating women like "b****". and he makes that seabeyond Dec 2013 #26

The quote is not from Assange maddezmom Dec 2013 #28

This message was self-deleted by its author delrem Dec 2013 #4

+1 ismnotwasm Dec 2013 #5

Michelle Obama had just spent 20 hours on a plane - I figured she was just tired THAT IS ALL. Tx4obama Dec 2013 #6

On this morning's news, ABC reported that Michelle was smiling soon after the original photo. In_The_Wind Dec 2013 #7

the reality is, if she was pissed, she would have whispered to hubby to knock it the fuck off. she seabeyond Dec 2013 #9