Manchester based publicly funded arts centre offers Glitter Tit painting for self-identified women

At least at a pool party it might be warm. Even if you took out the perv factor why would they think anyone would want to get her boobs out on a rainy evening in Manchester?

What a pile of glittery shit.

Hope the class is full of beardy blokes with their moobs and no actual women.

It would be like when you get sand in your swimsuit at the beach, but scratchier and with a bunch of drunk pervs drinking prosecco and saying "my name is Deirdre, honest".

I do know lots of people who do like glitter - im still not sure that they would want to use anything other than hands and feet to paint with it.

I was slightly concerned that because I dont like glitter maybe im not actually woman. And then i thought I havent got time to think about this and got on with the other hundreds of things i need to do in order to live.

urgh. left over glitter in your bra

no thanks. the AGPs can fill their boots. or their cups.

Also, glitter is scratchy and does not belong anywhere near sensitive areas.

Who needs hands when you can just smear your boobs all over the canvas?

This event sounds like it was designed to appeal to AGPs. They're only inviting actual women because the AGPs don't particularly want to look at each other topless.

My breasts are rather too saggy these days to do 'painting' with, I'd be chasing them around the paper for any effect!

Glitter is the Devil’s dandruff.

I’m still washing the remains of my Christmas cards out of my clothes.

I loathe glitter. Of any kind.

It is supposed to be 'art therapy'

"We deliver Mindful Art projects and events, informed by evidenced guidelines (NICE Treatment Guidance for Depression 2009) and creative events (NICE Guidance for Psychosis & Schizophrenia 2014)"

Not really university drama students although, who knows

What was the biscuit for?

I kind of imagine if you go you are probably not bothered who sees your boobs, it's hardly compulsory.

FWIW a module on my unis drama course asks the whole class to get naked and make paint prints of their bodies, together or alone (as in rolling around in bits of paper together or alone). Again not compulsory. It's very freeing.

I appreciate it's an entirely different context in a library with prosecco But it's probably more fun and less weird than it sounds. And again no one has to go.

This sounds like it should be one of Jess's events - like the naked tea party and the naked veganism

"messy play for chests"
It's billed as for "self identifying women" so I would read that as for "men". Because most actual women would have no interest in this!!

I did potato prints when I was a kid but for some reason as an adult woman I’ve never considered getting my baps out, covering them in paint and glitter then attempting art with them. Maybe that’s because I don’t fetishise parts of my female body.
Should be called messy play for chests. Each to their own but very strange nonetheless.

They've taken down the original tweet but decided to clarify the event:

twitter.com/owlandcoconut/status/1087044840813223936
Ever painted with your hands, your fingers, even your feet? Well how about your bare chest!

In this fabulous body positive mindful art workshop, we'll be exploring how the simplicity of print making with the body, contrasts to heavy fetishization of the female form in the media.

Besides all the other things that don't sit right for me with this 'empowering activity' (though it would be right at home at some of the fanjo-steaming, discover-yourself workshops elsewhere, I guess) it's this constant inequity and desperate rush to include men who identify as women in every activity for women, including ones that ironically are about challenging the fetishization of women's bodies, but not the other way round.

These tweets are about courses for men.

twitter.com/owlandcoconut/status/1084120400639021057
twitter.com/owlandcoconut/status/1083261912543125504

Not 'those who identify as men'.

Just Men.

No need for clarification. No additional qualifier to make it 'inclusive' for those who identify as men.

Why are women doing this to themselves and others? (That's a rhetorical question for this board, as we watch the pattern repeat over and over)

Has anyone ever painted anything with their breasts ever ever
😂😂😂
I mean who the fuck would actually want to do that

Does anyone know which venue had agreed to host this nonsense?

It would be wonderful if only men turned up.

Glitter, tits and Prosecco.

Yep, that just about sums up the self ID fantasy view of womanhood.

I wonder if men cover their dicks in glitter for self empowerment?

Finger painting for kids-great fun
Silicone implant breast painting for men-not cool.