ch-ch-ch-changes

Whenever I go on hiatus, DA is always a bit different when I come back. That's to be expected I guess.

What's up with that "more from" feature thingie on the right-side of deviation views though? The thing that shows other stuff from your gallery? Do they PROGRAM it to find the oldest, ugliest, most unpopular, most embarrassing doodles that have the least to do with the deviation being looked at, or does it just end up that way for me? Or what? Sheesh.


And I swear, every time I load up the main page, there is at least ONE picture in the Daily Deviations that is a sexy photograph of naked/half-naked women.

It's not that I have a problem with nudity or a problem with sexuality. I DO have a problem with the apparent ubiquity of women and women's bodies being used as props in still lifes. Over and over again.

Sigh. I guess I don't expect people to understand. I was never able to explain feminism to any of my peers at college. I remember once getting into an argument with a young man who couldn't understand something his girlfriend had said. She was concerned that the student artists being featured in the school newsletter were all men, and wondered why no women were being featured. The guy couldn't understand why his girlfriend would be concerned about that. Sexism? Gender bias? Patriarchal society? What? That stuff doesn't exist anymore, silly. This isn't the 50s.

And what could I say to that?


(probably a lot, but I was too surprised to really think of anything intelligent to say. Yay me.)

Oh well.