I recently read an issue about objectifying women in art and photography. It's in Swedish, but I share it anyway, and I have to confess... I didn't read like the last third part.
I didn't quite understand the concept of the pedophiles but I didn't read all of it. Being a pedophile means that you get sexually aroused by premature girls or boys. There is also a word (which I can't remember) when you get sexually aroused by boys or girls which are in their early puberty.
Somehow, I kind of understanfs it anyway. Because there is a general "girlification" or quote "lolification" which is almost everywhere. I hate to admit it, but the ideal of flat skinny women with shaved pussys kind of make me think about the weird norm of "the younger the better" but of course, I can explain it through some manga. Lookie lookie!
If you get glimmering stars in your eyes by this, congrats, you are what they call a Lolicon (A.k.a, obsessed about underdeveloped girls).
"A picture says more than a thousand words" they say, but what those words say also lies in the eyes of the beholder. I have lolipictures on my computes, quite a lot. If it is about the clothes, the hairstyle, the colours, the cuteness, either way, it doesn't make me horny. Although, I have grown ignorant of the true meanings behind these pics - lolicons. I just see a cute girl, but as soon there is a cameltoe involved, or nipples, the thought of pedophiles comes into my head. Usually I IGNORE it because I (with a capital i) like the pic by some reason, as earlier mentioned.
But it really is a different thing with me, being a young woman finding young girls cute. Ew, even that sounds fishy. As soon as the word pedophile is involved, everything you say, except it is objections, kind of gets creepy... at least to me. I chose this picture because I think it has it all. The objectifying and sexualizing of a prepubertal girl, which portays innocent, embarresed and weak features. Unfortunately, it's all over the internet. I am so glad my boyfriend hates it. To summerize, if it didn't come through to you... it's bad. Negative. Very bad and I do not like it. It creeps me out.
Onto another angle of the objectifying of women in art. Although, nudity doesn't mean emidiate objectifying, as I said, what the words mean is in the eyes of the beholder. To contrast the lolipopularity, women with big boobs are a lot more common in the world of manga. It doesn't have a name or term for it, to my knowledge. I call it normal, no offense to smallchested women, but I do.
Oh there are so much different kind of big boobs. To me, the shape of the boobs are the symbols.
We have this really firm and baloon-like shape.
"Normally" (?) big and to me, very realistic.
But there's also this kind. This makes me stunned, because there are actually guys out there who likes realistic giant boobs. This is how they look, most often. Instead of going all crazy feministic on the size, take the shape as a positive thing! I mean!! What if our society appreaciated natural bodies?
Haha, I said natural bodies. This is a painted woman, you can't get too critical of it. It's still a sexualized theme, I mean... she's a halfnaked nurse. But I do not find this offensive. Maybe because it is painted? Maybe because it looks innocent to me? Maybe because I know the general idea of how they really meant for you to look at this? It looks as an innocent fantasy to me, but what do I know. Maybe I do not judge as hard as I should because I have a kind boyfriend and thinks too good of the general man? I do not know!!! Or maybe because it's so much more natural than the western ideal? Look...
Okay, this might be an extreme example... but it describes it very well. This makes the earlier paintings so much more acceptable to everyone (I hope). Paintings, you can't really say painting but shit me. Anyway, I don't really have to say anything, do I?
So... what is my conclusion? None. The fact is, my computer is full of big manga boobs. The pics say different things to me and I save them for different reasons. I am a sucker for colours and shapes, and I confess, big boobs too. I don't know why. Don't judge me.
This is my art (although I only chose the ones with big boobs... it isn't all I paint... just saying).
Okay you can judge me for the last pic. That is clearly meant to be sexualized, but I never ever did say you could treat her as a victim or an object, now did I? My thought behind this wasn't much though. Animal-like instinct (look at the hand) and I guess now when I think about it, she's very "willing"... it seems. The fact is though, I didn't draw this with a big cock waiting to penetrate her, or to symbolize it or make you think about that. I focused on HER and HER feelings... *mumble mumble* *gruff*... >:/
*yawn*. . .
I don't feel like checking this entry for spelling errors. It's late, I need to study (but still I do this?) and... I do not care right now. I just wanted these thoughts out of my chest. Everybody have different tastes and opinions, but please do not forget, and different reasons. A guy who looks naturally and innocently (?) at a pic might be really offended if everyone says that is is a disgrace to women and so on... but I think, a guy who looks sadistically, objectifying and just plain EVIL at a pic might get more aroused for hearing objections to his way of thinking. The general idea is that abusive and sadistic and objectifying men likes that it is bad. But what I think, sociologists and feminists (same thing but shit me) wants is to enlighten these issues so we can see them and be able to object. Some choose to be ignorant (but they really isn't, they just ignore) and some just don't see things and find everything normal and follows everything. If people like that didn't exist, Hitler would have been a very lonely man. So the leader and speaker affects society and YOU more than you could ever imagine, and it doesn't only involve politics. I think the greatest of them all is media, and it's infected with objectifying and sending wrong messages and ideals.
I'm quite positive that if I wrote this in a newpaper... I would get deaththreats. I hope it doesn't offend (at least too much) someone but there are aaalwaaays people who reads it a lot differently than it was intented to be read. Maybe I'm too innocent myself? Maybe I am too isolated? Maybe I have too much confidence in men? That last part made me angry when I wrote it. But shit me, and shit you. I do not know what that means, but it express what I feel!
Also... manga is awesome. Just saying...
But this guy just creeps me out...
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