Art Museum surprise

[Poppyisa]

I went to an art museum today, with my infant school age daughter. The exhibit was by a female scientist turned artist, celebrating women in STEM. A girls guide group was there on a field trip, as were lots of other parent and children.

Lots of hands on exhibits that’s kids especially enjoyed. One of them was this multi choice questionnaire. I hope you can read it. I wasn’t prepared to answer this and I saw a couple of other parents looking equally baffled. FYI other questions were on climate change, food production. I’d like to follow up with the Art Museum, but all I can come up with is WTF!

Gendered Intelligence have their logo at the end of that Tate Gallery document.

I really hope the Tate isn’t at the same time doing work on how women as the subjects of art, or as the creators of art are marginalised.

Because people deciding for everyone else, that sex is now an irrelevant outdated category and teaching kids to privilege gender accordingly, is absolutely contributing to that marginalisation.

Art activist barbie @barbiereports does a stirling job of shining a light on misogyny in art and galleries, by the way.

Particularly good comment. All the visitors are taking pics of barbie with her protest.

twitter.com/barbiereports/status/1194225489252167681?s=21

"We also have single-sex facilities such as toilets, changing rooms and sometimes accommodation. Develop a culture where you simply accept that people choose the right facilities for them."

Single sex? Great! Presumably the second part must logically mean that blokes shouldn't query (let alone intimidate or harm) TW in male loos?

How does that work then? Trample on everyone's rights? So I can use the disabled as I see fit?

Self centred culture of ignorance.

*disabled loos

I've posted this before but this is the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Colouring in sheets for children

Fab eh

Get the message kids

Obvs

"Mutilation is marvellous"

I like that one. I didn't photo the two that said 'Gay is ok' and 'lesbian is tres bien'.
Thanks guys!!

"grooming is groovy"

"boundaries are boring"

I see a thinly disguised authoritarian culture of misogyny, homophobia and racism.

From another Tate resource:

On alien bodies and drawing an alien.

*What would the world be like if we didn’t divide everyone in it into only
You can also access the collection two categories that are meant to be super different; boys and girls?

What would the world be like if you could choose to be a girl or a boy or both or neither, depending on how you feel about your body? How would you think differently about people? How would you feel differently about yourself?

Make this world.*

So, according to an art gallery, you can absolutely choose your body.

www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/57333

A is for alien.

It didn't copy correctly, edit:

*What would the world be like if we didn’t divide everyone in it into only two categories that are meant to be super different; boys and girls?

What would the world be like if you could choose to be a girl or a boy or both or neither, depending on how you feel about your body? How would you think differently about people? How would you feel differently about yourself?

Make this world.*

Science fiction is the medium which best explores that sort of question. It's fine to think about such things but never forgetting it's fiction.

Science fact is, Terran evolution developed dimorphic sexual reproduction, and the branch we're on, mammalia, has immutable sexes.

And what's with the 'meant to be super different'? Who the heck thinks that? In most regards, boys and girls aren't 'super different'. Prepubescent kids are not very different at all except for peeing.

What the fuck?

Anyone know what insurance companies opting in or out of the 'intervention' is supposed to mean?

That and the bogs thing. Single sex toilets but if you see a man in there lingering around accept that he knows best :/

‘AGP, it’s Fine By Me’

Every art gallery I go to in London has some queer theory rainbow wash going on. It's so weird. It's anti-intellectual and the over promotion of 'sex-positivity' must contravene basic child safeguarding.
I saw the following delights at Tate Modern not so long ago. All at child height.

Some further examples of pornography displayed at child height in the Tate Modern. The non binaries leaflet is particularly egregious, with drawn pictures of BDSM abuse mainly being perpetrated on a woman with mastectomy scars. Just awful,

Jesus that non binary book

No words.

Woah