That Fragile Capricorn

[That Fragile Capricorn]

cosettetape1 asked:

Peter I need your help. Years ago, a post of a painting depicting a well-built, muscular but soft warrior woman in a pond with her armor on the shore near her went around here over and over again. I cannot find that painting, and if you can remember it I'd be eternally grateful.

petermorwood answered:

I can’t help with this one, I’m afraid.

The description rang no bells, and I used all sorts of keywords and search terms to look through past posts, back to when my blog began 10 years ago. Still no joy.

I’m posting this as a public rather than private reply in the hope it’ll prompt other memories than mine.

[fixaidea]

This one?

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[potatoesdauphinoise]

People being mean to JK Rowling just genuinely upsets me.... I just saw someone say the most vile thing about wanting to smash in her skull... I mean we don't talk about GOP men like this! When we talk about billionaires its all guillotines, not this horribly graphic, personal violence. I wish people would examine why only women get that sort of language directed at them.

[aa-terf]

It's because women who are "bad" aren't people. There's a long standing human tradition of abusing, assaulting, raping, and torturing women that say things men don't like that goes back thousands of years, and men have always come up with reasons to justify it and blame the women. And women join in on this torture because they think that it saves them from also being tortured. It does not.

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[higher-order]

Can we please just drop the façade of the media being objective and unbiased?

[tribade-worship]

Some insanity in the notes.

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[vizrecon]

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[historium]

1951, Sweden. This photo was published with the following text: “The execution of the rooster was announced and carried out by mother Jenny after she had caught him in the act of fatally trampling a hen. Death to all tyrannical males, no matter the type.” 

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[tel-aviva]

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[fluffy-robots]

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[bogleech]

Sometimes they eat sand dollars : )

[poondragoon]

Sharks have 10-20 times the bite force of a human.

A sand dollar test has roughly twelve times the crushing strength of a Pringle. QED, a shark may indeed experience the crispness of a Pringle.

[teamfortresstwo]

Love and peace on planet earth

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[memorycycle]

*taking out the trash at night* what if there was a monster. lol *walking faster*

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[platinum-iridium]

we’ll never even know how damaging it is that most of the images we see of women have been altered. like not even talking about photoshop, but makeup as well. how the fuck did women’s natural faces become unprofessional and informal. and both of those words really just mean that in certain contexts our faces are unacceptable. and those contexts have been broadening over the years, now seeming to encompass daily life. too many times have i heard women hesitant to go outside because their faces aren’t ready. i’m so annoyed

[omnivore-odyssey]

The psychological impact of existing in a society where unshaven, barefaced, physically strong, and unfeminine/unsexualized women are RARELY seen is an enourmous burden on every young girl and woman. We have massively underestimated the psychological effect of this in our collective psyche as a culture.

[woman-for-women]

In a science museum exhibit on natural variation and diversity in the human race, the women pictured are wearing makeup (lip color, mascara, eyebrow pencils, eye makeup) and the men exist as they are.

I know they likely used stock photos, but how is this not blatant sexism? What do you think the girls looking at this internalize? How does this naturalize makeup and beauty routines?

[woman-for-women]

All the three mosiac “faces” are made up of two squares of male faces and two squares of female faces.

Yes, every single woman pictured is wearing makeup. The fact that you can’t tell that they are is exactly what I mean by makeup culture being normalized. People are so used to seeing women all made up that photos of women in makeup are presented as equally as natural as photos of men without makeup. The worst part is so many people can’t even tell the difference. When I say the men exist as they are, I am referring to the fact that none of the men are wearing makeup and all the women are.

Yeah, it’s you!