Why is it still difficult for women to find work as artists and be given sufficient credit for their work?

13 toukokuun, 20156 helmikuun, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

There are so many things that need to be done something about what comes to women’s rights as workers, creative makers: to be independent and respected as such, respected for their work and having freedom of expression. Question is why the task of finding equality, equal opportunities, is taking so long and the road is bumpy as hell? Why such reluctant viewpoint on change and equal rights, repulsion against women’s points of view, all kinds of women? Only answer I can think of is that there are people who do not want women to have power, power to make decisions, show perspectives of different. There are people to whom women are frightening, especially women who know what they want and are not afraid to express their ideas and thoughts.

Why women as artists still need, obviously, more proving their talent than men, proving their art is valuable as pieces of art and part of our culture, not as some abnormalities? Women as artists bring value to the whole community, their stories are interesting, universal and unifying therefore worth while looking into and share. Movie industry is a good example of the rule of white men who do not seek anything other than making money. This conclusion I make as I follow what kind of movies get the most advertising and get noticed by media. Media and movie industry work together in this as does TV. The bigger the better has a testosterone impact all over and anything else gets rolled over. Anything marginal is getting past way too hastily, because it may not sell enough. That is a dead-end way to do art, produce living culture and do business. Things produced that we notice in every day stand out at news stands, fast food restaurants, magazines, on the internet with huge force. This in mind problem of inequality and what gets made and is made interesting by PR is acute and rooted to the whole culture of entertainment and art. Luring and exciting do hit strikingly and very much as a gender-issue as how culture is given to us. This is a responsibility issue, because we learn to watch either variety of things which inspire us, or monotonously something factory-produced, easy and ready-chewed entertainment which brings an ecstatic boost. A monoculture of white men telling how entertainment and art are produced, what gets made for us see like there was nothing else will hopefully soon be over. There is work to be done.

Article picks addressing important feminist issues:
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2015/05/13/aclu-goes-after-hollywoods-gender-gap/ ”Without the insight and experience of women, the entertainment media runs the risk of telling stories that not only fail the Bechdel Test but also rob audiences of a deeper understanding of the female experience. … There is a huge audience for storytelling that gives voice to everyone standing in line behind all the straight white men.”

http://blog.eros.com/feminist-porn/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Performer Kelly Shibari Is Confused By Feminist Porn

What are we waiting for? It is a broken record that’s playing.

8 toukokuun, 201514 helmikuun, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

It is the obvious we are not doing. Which the obvious I see and all should be doing is to reconsider and investigate, stop and see the alternatives, stay in that reconsidering moment of not quite sure but there is no other choice but to choose and change- kind of moment. Walk and wonder.

It is the most difficult thing to do to try and change one’s patterns of thinking and behavioral models that have shaped you and are more or less given to you (if you do not resist). The environment and society we are grown into is the most strongest of all structural forces that mold us and desire to keep us under a rule, being obedient and lawful practicing those given tasks and roles being nice and clean. Orders of how to be a human in a civilized world, to find a job, which things to be interested in, which is our main goal to have a role to play, to work and make a living. Human is an active species. Strange to speak of species as if we were aliens, which we partly are, constant aliens. It is demanding to know first yourself and then someone else and find a place in the world. For some people to manage this it is almost impossible, it can be too much as it is made more and more difficult to find a place. It is more common to think you know the answers, that you know someone through and through rather than actually find that person out and find the world out. Easy ways do not lead to the correct answers most likely.

What this has got to do with apathy and playing the same broken record, which I think is the main reason financial depression is not solved, environmental awareness and awakening move ahead so slowly, human rights issues drag behind, reasons of not doing anything about those issues that need desperately something to be done about. Apathy that rises and dwells there where there is nothing to do, nothing can be done, people feel left out, incapable, out of resources and alone with lot of problems. Apathy which eats you and makes you think you are nothing, cannot do anything and nothing can be done. It is the society that makes you feel that way. Apathy is a trap you should not fall into. For society and democracy it is a dangerous way to think that we are left without means, ideas, capabilities and capacities and let a mass feel this way is irresponsible politics. How does it happen so easily? Are robots going to take over? Are we too spoiled and not given enough stimulus or kicks in the butts to become lazy and indifferent?

http://theweek.com/articles/553704/capitalisms-dirty-little-secret?utm_source=links&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=twitter”But in modern capitalism, access is everything. More than anything, access to the cooperative economic ecology keeps us all employed. We all depend on each other to keep the economy humming and to provide a robust safety net, so we’ll have the money to pay everyone else for the needs of life.Thinking through how we can encourage a sense of place and community in our market interactions is certainly worthwhile. But the economic changes are driving the cultural changes here. And we aren’t going to go back to being self-reliant agrarian yeomen, each responsible for our own little plot of husbandry.”

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/07/how-friendship-became-tool-of-powerful”Driven particularly by neuroscience, the expert understanding of social life and morality is rapidly merging into the study of the body. One social neuroscientist, Matt Lieberman, has shown how pains that we have traditionally treated as emotional (such as separating from a lover) involve the same neurochemical processes as those we typically view as physical (such as breaking an arm). Social science and physiology are converging into a new discipline, in which human bodies are studied for the ways they respond to one another physically.

Disposable ones. Who disposes what?

5 toukokuun, 201529 joulukuun, 2017 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Human being has human value, not value of piece of meat, a bird or a cat, but human. We consider our higher consciousness and intellect fair reasons to the superior number one spot on the planet. That is one way to see human value as value of a winner and taker of what there is to take and own because it is possible. Could human value mean we can refuse to do what we could do because it would be right thing to do? To be able to use judgment of one’s own, say no, see alternatives, be creative and innovative, have will of one’s own and be kind are parts of the human value. Aggressive is very much how many cultures do things and behave. They state their power and status by owning, stealing, taking, killing and denying it is wrong reasoning somebody else would do the same if they did not. It is common children are seen as inferior to adults but many adults behave as children do. What kind of conclusions should I make here? Quite obvious. Human value in all this combat and commodity culture is measured by how much and what one owns and what one is able to accomplish, what is seen as an accomplishment in the eyes of those who compete in the same game. Compete is a good word to add in when weighing human value, valuing worth of anything in our world much comes via competition, visibility and winning.

The more there are of us does it mean there will be heavier competition of survival or will we able to share the good we have with those who don’t have as much?

People who come in all ethnic variety there is and genders whom I cannot name, but genders in plural do exist and must be acknowledged: All have human value. What does that mean is a complete order of practicing human rights everywhere, rights that concern everybody. Is it a matter of defining human value again or do we know it by now? Value, worth, life, unique, irreplaceable wonder I cannot help of admiring and still stay horrified by him and her as we are not equal nor live in peace. Value of something existing is a good start to begin to think the difficulty in valuing anything. How do we become to value, starters life, which many take for granted, during which people can accomplish terrible tragedies to each other for reasons that seem valuable enough to cause disasters and misery for many. What is human value then in this picture with multiple disaster making creature who devalues life that he has made a commodity and disposable object to be destroyed just like that? Is it good to ask, is it hypocritical to see that monetarizing life and existence of species is basically wrong and unjust? There in every way seems to be belittling and underrating of value of life, ways of living, existing, undervaluing of nature, animals and people. Is it something difficult to define what is important and protect that? It is not self-evident there as such is life, respected and cherished life.

For some reason I am not buying this talk, this niceness, this kindness and well meaning. This is reality: human life does not have value unless it is wrapped in an expensive suit and has buddies. Theory and reality are not matching. Wonder why that is. As much as there are good intentions, good people doing so much good world is in a terrible state. This is not just a horror story, it is happening all the time. I think my feet are on the ground. How about yours?

Glaring body, origin of, pulled out of something beautiful. Out of that glaring body and it is still shining its light like a lamppost on a dark street.

2 toukokuun, 201521 helmikuun, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

His naivety became to signify fear, to mean good at heart or young inexperienced mind, trusting or having lived with only one perspective to a view.
Her naivety became to signify fear, to mean good at heart, which is more easy to say, that it was she who is naive, still. Unchanged as she remains, trusting, believing, faithful and true. That is what naive means, in a way. You do not change when you don’t have to or because you are afraid and believe truths of others instead of your own. When you are afraid the truth of your own, afraid because it may end up hurting you, because it is not the truth of the most of the world. Or maybe it is but they are afraid of it too.

Sharing is caring. Is gossiping about social skills or lack of them?

1 toukokuun, 201521 helmikuun, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Ethically produced knowledge and learning? Sure thing, don’t know about the ethics though, a production, yes. Stand point to gossip is that it is all around, unavoidable as it seems. Why people do it? It obviously plays the essential part of entertaining as everyday soap without TV. Why do you think even though we know it is morally wrong and there is no justification to gossip people find gossip appealing? It brings together similar minded jackasses and separates those who can be discussed about. Gossip sure has a place in society, but why through doing harm we look for something interesting, excitement and shock value. Good and nice are not enough, boring maybe? We need the shock, danger, exposure, element of forbidden in digging other people’s lives and to seek humiliation on others, shame of those who are in the spotlight? Obviously, why else bad talk would flourish to the extent it does. Gossiping is a major seller of goods and magazines making celebrities. It is an emotional boost of either wanting what that other fabulous person has or loathing and hating someone to exclude them, make them feel bad about themselves. I see it merely as public expression of emotions and desires, which has very little to do with reason. Gossip is psychological warfare, violence and shows the ugly side of people, of those who gossip. getting things out of proportion, out of context, false and to make the talker look better than the one who is talked about. It is much a moral issue in which those who make gossip think have morals on their side, have higher morals than and know what is morally right. Gossiping people do not see anything wrong in their behavior until they are caught. It is a mental assault to team against someone, cruel, bullying, hurtful and ruthless. It does not stop until it is stopped.

If I look at the phenomenon of word getting around, it is irreversible and damaging. Gossip is targeting with a purpose, practical with a specific meaning. In that way it is very social, needs relations and skills to spread. If you really don’t know what you are talking about, why don’t you keep your fucking mouth shut. If your only purpose is to harm those you for some reason do not like, you have got some serious issues that need tending.

http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2005/04/gossip.aspx ”For example, it has been theorized that gossip played a fundamental role in the evolution of human intelligence and social life (Dunbar, 2004; Davis & McLeod, 2003) and that it continues to play an active role in cultural learning (Baumeister, Zhang, & Vohs, 2004) and as a source of social comparison information (Suls, 1977; Wert & Salovey, 2004a). To be sure, it is often noted that rumor and gossip can also be undeniably aversive and problematic-currently illustrated, for example, in the way that rumor and gossip have generated resistance to medical efforts to deal with HIV and AIDS (e.g., Smith, Lucas, & Latkin, 1999; Stadler, 2003).”

If it is good, huray! Cheeky then wehey! Blog sensations: News Agency for the good ppl. Don’t forget to share. Check your facts or/and check your head.

Angel baby

Kuva | 30 huhtikuun, 201513 heinäkuun, 2022 | Henna Timanttimetsä

It can be difficult to talk to women as they were human beings, but it tells more about you than of women. You are just a pig.

27 huhtikuun, 201523 helmikuun, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

inspired by the phenomenon of making sounds at women: It is still called catcalling. Women as animals, men as people.

Men who talk to women as they were dogs, women as dogs are called cats, like dogs to whistle to women asking something from men when passing by just by being women going somewhere, because women are needy and vulnerable; do you want my company, do you want me? You must want me.

Coming to you, smiling to you, being nice to you, showing interest in you, going with you, wanting you to take her to places, being with you, wanting you, adoring you, touching you, serving you. Surely you will take care of me, won’t you now.

As they who are whistled to were dogs and are in a position of dogs to those who have opportunity and permission to do gestures and sounds meaning something as gifts and courtesy. Them men as an interested right party when women pass by. It is a right way to treat women, something they should accept as their part. Those who stand by cease their opportunity, are playing their part. There isn’t anybody telling them they do something wrong, if there is a countering message it does not sink in. Catcallers act their power play, because they are not able to do anything else. They are incapable of changing their ways, because there is not any need to in their minds, in their world. In their minds they think they do the right thing gender-wise calling from above to a piece of ass and tits. Something they were born to do for themselves and for women, in that moment of standing by, waiting and looking, catching fish, their prey.

A woman is an opportunity, a different species to eat and consume. There is always a simple any woman to catch in this kind of world which sees women as something to be caught and used. What there is to talk to a dog? What there is to talk to a woman? Only things she wants to hear. Do women have anything to say other than thank you? Do you as men have something else to say, something else to see than body parts? Are you waiting for a reply other than kick in the nuts? Wagging of a tail, tender look of wet eyes who look at you admiringly? I am yours. I am something to own, take me with you. Men who take their time to gaze women as their right and as a compliment to women. Something to contribute to lives of women. We are thankful for every interest you show. How nice of you.

How do you clean without a vacuum cleaner? Who cleans without a vacuum cleaner? No one. Really? Can you smell the new smell?

20 huhtikuun, 201513 heinäkuun, 2022 | Henna Timanttimetsä

I have a cleaning dilemma which is ideological, not that much that I didn’t know what to do. Is it also a gender issue, environmental? Do I dare to ask? Can you imagine living without a vacuum cleaner? It is a similar kind of question as could you live without a car or two. It very often is for many unimaginable. Why is it so unimaginable? Life would get difficult and uneasy if we didn’t keep it together with helping equipment. Our everyday problems are solved and we don’t have to think much about it just. Sigh of relief. One could almost feel like a freak without the basic tools, left without lacking something important which is meant to be with us organically like a friend. Almost, hey. Of course this is a question of how much space one has to do clean and what kind of dirt we are talking about. When it comes to professional cleaning ladies, who clean for living, it is good for their health to have ergonomic light tools, essentially important. Cleaning ladies’ work is hazardous, unappreciated, loathed even. Something you do not easily see, stay interested in unless the job is not done. To pay attention to those people who take care of our spaces is therefore important. They are many and invisible as long as they stay quiet and do their jobs. Cleaning personnel get paid poorly, pay which does not enough include to the fact it is a dangerous job to maintain surfaces. Health risks are there how the work is done and what kind of poisonous cleaning detergents are used, not to mention people looking down on you as you haven’t moved up in the world. Detergents can smell good for a minute. Spraying detergents is the same as breathing them so you can imagine what the shit can do in the long run. As garbage men, cleaning ladies and janitors are doing socially extremely important work, think about it what they could do: stop the whole of society. Can you smell the new smell?

Interesting point here is how we assume, forget, do not think, see the obvious or ignore completely because we don’t have to pay attention. All we have to do is to know the necessity of technology and total superiority of things we own, their unquestionable value to us, that we know they are right for the job they are designed to and we can have them. Tasks and needs which cannot be done otherwise, who would want to anymore. We would soon be asthmatic and living in filth like our ancestors going nowhere. It is the power of advertising, powerful collective suction and consuming mindset to owning, to expertise, re-organizing, planning and performing proper civilized human beings who maintain themselves. Especially herself who has to know how to maintain this perfect image, how to be in it. It is so precise of an image holding on to us tightly. Letting go is overwhelmingly problematic. We have our reasoning which is part of the problem. Effectiveness is all. This reasoning is solving only the surface of things without wanting look inside.

If we lost machines like washing machines and vacuum cleaners it would mean cleaning work renaissance with laundry and household staff. Would it be class society all over again? Nevertheless there would be work if there were people who needed the service and paid for it. It is easy to see how important hygiene is for our everyday lives and how easily we ignore this fact.

What do you know about vacuum cleaners is another question and I bet nothing much. Where do they come from and where do they go? They, our tools, do the job just as well and much better than the old ones. New ones keep on appearing, designed, manufactured and they look amazing matching our interior of chrome and glass which need to be spotless. We are instructed how to plug-in, put on and how to operate. If you are not able to there is something wrong with you no doubt. To get rid of the things when they have lived their lives with us can be a bit tricky if you are willing to put effort and time in to that not so tiny ecological dilemma. We don’t have to know machines we use well, we don’t have to know where the materials come from, how the cost of machines get made and who profit the most. Vacuum cleaners are made super easy to use, everybody can use them, everybody can have them and will have a vacuum cleaner. What other this machine does than suck dirt and dust and what kind of life does a vacuum cleaner as an object represent is the easy comfortable living without dirt without effort. It provides and represents health. Even our apartments have closets for the thing with a long tube and heavy body. It is an essential tool cleaning your car, sofa, carpets quickly without too many extra movements and tricks.

Why I talk about vacuum cleaner is that I don’t own one and I happened to ask the cleaning lady who works our building could I borrow the one she uses. (I got a face) Nobody asks such questions because everybody has their own. So I think it is a very interesting cultural question of how we consume, how we maintain our standard of living and take care of our property, homes and which items belong to a modern household. I am in many ways a minority, by far.

Can you imagine people who live without vacuum cleaners, what they are like? At what point imagining life without those essential machines in our lives has become almost impossible?

To get stuck with ideas of how modern life is arranged and should be lived is where the closed society is born. Not that societies were not closed before, but there is a large problem waiting to be solved about how we evolve or do not and in some ways it is not new and some way it is terrible isolation which is almost impossible to change. What kind of society is closed and how do we open it or better yet encourage people to open up society as a culture and as a structure?

Yes it is a bit perverse question, psychological, and you can begin to imagine all kinds of alternatives, horrors, To think what do I mean with cleaning can too be very different than idea of cleaning to a super hygienist. Why do I even ask is because we assume too much. We have vacuum cleaners and they work perfectly fine, mostly. A machine almost all households have like a self-evident equipment so much so that to think cleaning without this noisy part of home would be unthinkably. To me it strongly seems people as modern population have come to a point where we do not see the opportunities there are. We like to be stuck and like our comfort.

http://home.howstuffworks.com/vacuum-cleaner.htm ”2. As the fan blades turn, they force air forward, toward the exhaust port(check out How Airplanes Work to find out what causes this).”