Poor Doree Lewak of the New York Post just wants to “be that objectified sex thing for [the catcalling men of NYC]” because “hard hats need something to look at on their break.” Maybe they should try looking at the newspaper. “It’s as primal as it gets, ladies!” Not as primal as, say, bashing you in the head with a club, dragging you into a secluded area and raping you, but the sentiment is the same. A man who yells out positive and/or negative comments at a passing female stranger is operating under the same idea; the belief that women’s bodies don’t belong to them, but to the public, and as a part of public property, men have the right to judge them as worthy or unworthy bodies. Continue reading
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Belgian artist Peter de Cupere has decided that what the world needs is to embrace the stink. And the stinkier the better, because just why not? Body odor can surely be art, right? But of course, if you can produce it from an orifice, someone might as well smell it and remark on how ingenious it is that you, a human being, can produce a smell for mass consumption.
Art. It’s all about giving it your all, with your armpits. No! With your thigh-sweat…No! Well, with something. Continue reading