Men to Avoid in Art and Life

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I’ve always appreciated art, even if I haven’t studied it at school and it’s not my life’s passion to study it, but it just worked out that images that I was finding were paintings. Through cringe-induced empathy, these shared experiences unite women across history in one of the most powerful forms of resistance: laughter. So I go online just to kind of scroll through Twitter and zone out for a little bit,” she said, “and I see a dude explaining to a woman her own joke back to her — something that has happened to me many times.

Another long time reader who read romance novels in her teens, then took a long break before started back again about 25 years ago. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. I have been online for a decade and I always have been very active so I have a lot of experience, but in the beginning, it’s definitely more crushing. With vague blanket statements like "Twitter is a daily reminder that I'm a woman" and an unnecessary, unfunny tampon joke, I just don't know what the point of her commentary was.

This collection of famous art mixed with observations and snarky comments about men gave me quite a few laughs. They look on, often breaking the fourth wall, like Jack Benny dumbfounded by the noise passing for information. And what might be dense feminist reasoning is, in the medium of the meme, transformed into relatable and accessible content.

The book has paintings from museums and each have a comment each of us women have heard at least once before!That surely gives hope that maybe we are not in a painting of the 15th century anymore, that there is some change happening.