Perform a blowjob in a gallery space. Museum space would be even better.

July 20, 2016July 27, 2021 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Perform a blowjob in a gallery space, a museum space is even better.

Instructions: You are among a crowd (friends). Get slightly drunk. Offer a man to get down on him right now in front of all these people you do not know (friends). Fall on your knees and lick his crotch. Open his belt and caress his thighs. Be graphic. If he refuses follow him on your knees. Tell you are very good at it. Ask in front of everybody, if it is ok to perform in front of everybody and perform anyway. Be loud, say please. Ask why he refuses. Don’t you like it? Don’t stop, follow him. Be persistent. Say it is good fun and that you are cheap. If he is not willing ask why. I am not cheap enough, you ask. Say you are desperate. Say that you have heard you like it, I’m sure you’ll like it. Look at my mouth, say. Tell it is good fun and you have been dreaming about doing it exactly with someone like you. I like your smile. Don’t stop until you are removed and kicked out of the place for disturbance and continue to do it outside gallery space.

Another idea: Hire a male prostitute and go to a museum opening among people you do not know (friends and colleagues). When speeches are over and people are enjoying cocktails, themselves, choose a visible spot. Go on your knees and give the male prostitute a good old-fashioned blowjob. Don’t forget to swallow. Don’t stop sucking his penis even though you will be interrupted and told to get lost. Talk dirty, shout loudly and laugh, lick everything.

Prisoners of Tradition: Women in Afghanistan All the things we should do but do not. Following progress.

July 19, 2016February 19, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Kävelevä pillu

July 11, 2016August 14, 2020 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Milloin minusta tuli hankala? Olen aina ollut hankala. Hankala tarkoittaa ihmistä, joka ei pidä kaikesta mitä eteen tuodaan ja antaa sen ilmi, joka vastustaa yleistä mielipidettä ja -suuntausta tehdä asiat kuten muka aina on tehty, ja todella rikkoo henkisen alennuksen, rauhallisen tilan jossa Suomen pitäisi olla. Suomessa sellaisen ihmisen todella huomaa. Hankaluutta suvaitaan kovin huonosti, ilmeisestä syystä. Suomessa on hyvä, kun asiat tapahtuvat juohevasti ja nopeasti ilman ongelmia, eriäviä mielipiteitä, vaatimuksia. Tie on hyvä kun se on suora.

Olen ollut temperamenttinen lapsesta asti, joka tietysti on pahasta, koska tunteensa on hyvä latistaa äänettömyyteen ja puhumattomuuteen. Olen näyttänyt suoraan inhoni ja negatiiviset tunteeni että saan aikaan riidan ja tunteenpurkauksen. Suorasanaiseksi todella ryhdyin kun tajusin, ettei hyvällä käytöksellä saa muutosta aikaan, eikä hyvää käytöstä odoteta miehiltä samalla tavalla kuin naisilta. Sen olen huomannut, naista kohtaan voi olla niin ikävä kuin tahtoo, ylenpalttisen vihamielinen ja halveksiva kuin mihin kuvittelee olevansa oikeutettu ja se on ok, koska on mies. Kyllä naisetkin ovat ikäviä ja vihamielisiä. Letkautukset ovat hauskaa viihdettä. Ne kertovat suoraan älyn tasosta. Minun on hyvä hymyillä ja olla tyytyväinen siihen mitä on. Tyytyväinen tähän? Tuskin. Tämä tarve tyytyväisyyden ilmaisuun ilmaistiin minulle jopa yliopistossa, joidenkin opiskelijoiden osalta. Kritiikkini oli valitusta turhasta. Melko erikoista, mutta totta. Opetuksen tasoa ei saa ääneen kritisoida, koska opettajien kanssa on oltava hyvä kaveri. Hyvää kaveriahan ei julkisesti kritisoida, halataan jumalauta. Ääneen kritisoinnista seuraa jännittävä rankaisukulttuurin ilmentymä, jonka alku on eristäminen, ulkopuolelle jättäminen, selän takana puhuminen: kuinka se kehtaa, mikä se kuvittelee olevansa, huono taiteilija. Tuntuuko nyt pahalta? Toivottavasti, koska tämä suomalainen hyvä veli-kulttuuri tulee muuttumaan. Kavereiden ja työmahdollisuuksien toivossa en jätä sanomatta jotakin, jolla on iso merkitys kokonaisuuden kannalta, en jätä puuttumatta asioihin jotka todella ovat metsässä ja pahasti. Kannattaisi taide-alallakin jo ymmärtää, että opetuksen tason korkeus on ensiarvoisen tärkeää. Se, että ala toimii suhteilla, on erittäin huono systeemi. Juorupuheiden leviäminen ja niihin uskominen on erinomainen todiste. Kaverin sanaan luotetaan ennemmin kuin kysytään asianomaiselta. Systeemi ei uudistu samaa vauhtia muun yhteiskunnan ja maailman kanssa. Korruptio on mädättävää.

Kun teen jotakin provosoivaa, joka on ilmeisen helppoa, pyrin saamaan aikaan todellista muutosta joka toimii kuin vasara halkaisten todellisuuden, jota heteronormatiivisuus, hiljaaoleminen, tavallisuudesta poikkeamattomuus ja pelkuruus pitävät yllä. Minulle on sanottu etten saa olla hankala, sanallisesti kyseenalaistaa niitä, jotka päättävät mahdollisuuksistani jollakin asteella, jotka päättävät ja pitävät yllä ilmapiiriä jossa ei sana ole vapaa, muuten kuin anonyymisti ei saa sanoa ihan mitä tahansa, vai, ja kaveripiirissä on helppo sättiä. Kun on sellainen luonto, ettei voi sietää sitä, että on ihmisiä vallankahvassa jotka eivät kestä pienintäkään vastaääntä tai kyseenalaistamista, niin yhteentörmäystä on vaikea välttää. En myöskään siedä, että asioistani päättävät epäpätevät huhupuheita uskovat aasit. Ei epäoikeudenmukaisuutta, suoraa väkivaltaa, kiusaamista, vähättelyä, sameaa vettä joka seisoo ja tekee mitä tahtoo, tarvitse katsella vierestä. Jotakin on voitava tehdä ja sanoa.

On paljon ihmetystä ja paheksuntaa voimasanojen käytölle, sille ettei voi sietää heterokäytöstä, jossa naisella on vain yksioikoinen tietynlainen sovittu rooli, miehen omistajastatuksen täydellistäjänä. En ole sopinut millainen minun tulee olla, millaisia asioita saan tehdä. Nainen rikkoo roolinsa, jos siltä tuntuu ja kävelee ulos, tekee vastoin mikä on hyväksi? Hyväksi kenelle? Heteronormatiivisuus ei ole koskaan ollut minulle hyväksi. Että nainen on se, joka otetaan, katsastetaan, hyväksytään tai hylätään ei ole hyväksi naisille eikä tytöille. On naisia jotka pitävät tästä järjestelystä. Minä en. En ole täyttämässä toisen tarpeita. Mies, joka on, mitä hän omistaa, on etsimässä pillua, koska se häneltä puuttuu. Harmillista. Naisen tulisi täyttää tämä tyhjiö ja antaa miehelle vapaus toteuttaa nussimisfantasiansa, koska sitä iloa ei hänellä ole, ellei hänellä ole naista. Itse en katsele ja kuuntele yhtään anonyymiä apinaa, jolla on esihistoriallisia mielipiteitä siitä, mitä minä teen, mitä joku toinen tekee ja on, anonyymit apinat lyttäämässä seksuaalivähemmistöjä, maahanmuuttajia, feministejä, vasemmistoa, luonnonsuojelijoita ja taiteilijoita. Se on mielenmaisema, josta olen kotoisin ja jota erittäin mielelläni pakenen henkilökohtaisessä elämässä. Vapaaehtoisesti en kuuntele samaa levyä yhä uudestaan ja uudestaan. Jo pelkästään ammattini on ihmetyksen aihe: eihän se ole edes työ. Haista vittu!

To place feminist critique upon feminism itself is very appropriate and needed. How to do it is another matter.

June 16, 2016July 13, 2022 | Henna Timanttimetsä

The bashing of contemporary feminism gets nowadays an unchangeable tone or should I say what else is new. It is desperate yet in its despair forceful as it is surreal. For many feminism today is useless. Its points of views illogical, old-fashioned and untrue. It is to tear down institution of family, which as it is now, is a true comfort zone (see the sarcasm). Who would not want children, lawn and. According to men’s rights activists and fascists, to mention just a few, feminists hate men and boys, yes feminists are true haters, they disregard welfare of men and boys considering themselves only, feminism has no base in reality, their goals are unrealistic and disastrous and it, feminism, is an invention of hateful bitches who think they are better than, just to mention few juicy topics and ideas about feminism on Finnish social media.

When feminists start to speak they prove to all how useless and stupid the whole ideology is, they are irrational. What are these women talking about equality, rights and emancipation. All is well, or was before. Women who work for equality and for sexual rights again destroy something meaningful, solid and effort to change this godly state of ours is ruining the perfect welfare state, a nation and heritage, order of things as well as unity in our country. What unity? Country is getting more and more divided, of course, feminists are to blame. Noteworthy is how there must be a group of people to blame for all corruption and decline which would not exist and happen if there were not feminists and the left, women should stay quiet and at home. Let men do what men do without interruptions. What do men do? They are a pretty active lot. All blame falls upon those terrible feminists who destroy the good there is in tradition based patriarchal society, which can solve issues there may be in its own way, which issues are those? Immigrants, intellectuals, critics? We don’t have any issues other than unwanted people. Everything is fine, or was until feminists came. Men’s rights activists can talk about difficult psychological problems like alcoholism, depression, mental abuse and physical violence, bullying, loneliness, unemployment without women’s rights activists meddling in. Feminism causes disturbance and brokenness. Men truly dislike being underdogs, till the end the fight is against the left. Anybody who is against male dominance is a communist which is bad. It is bad to be a communist. (Yes this is a very rational argument.)

There is a lot of nerve to blame feminists for doing the dissolving of values our country builds on when women’s rights movement has played a huge part in building this country as it is now. Home, religion and Fatherland stay solid, how else, and for some they should stay unchanged and we rooted to them no matter what. It is men who have done all the building. There must be some pussy to bang though.

To tell you that home, religion and Fatherland so far have not been all about equality, creating well-being and prosperity for all and those holy units will change whether you like it or not, they already have. I can say I come from a very sexist culture where men set the boundaries, where femininity is weakness, women aren’t rational but emotional, where gay is a swear word, men are more often listened to over everybody else, they get promoted, their authority and expertise is relied on no matter how poor it is. I have been told how I should dress, have my hair, when to get pregnant, that it is men’s world where I as a woman enter, that I will never make it as an artist, I should choose the easy way, I should not say what I think, I should not object my given role as a woman, my place, I should not think for myself, be critical and I should smile more, my body is constantly under scrutiny, so is my clothing, what I do for a living and will I make a living, to be loud is very unfeminine, so is swearing, still there are jobs that are for men only, odd is to draw porn, my intellect, professional knowledge and abilities are always suspected and undervalued, the ones I must constantly prove and still since I am so difficult and almost non-existent I must be stupid. I am a body without a mind, any demand is whining and complaining, all the wrong I do is many times bigger than when man does the same, men can do whatever because they are men, I must do many times better if I should overcome a man and show I actually can do something well. Culture that does not evolve is a dead culture.

Feminists do this and feminists say that, mostly arguments are based on assumptions, hearsay, bias and worn out repetition which seems to be the old record people are afraid to discard and through away. Need a thumb to suck? To see feminists in bad light is a default deeply rooted in misogyny which hateful look on women pushes aside issues that are important for women. Things that are important to feminists like equal opportunity to healthcare, education, possibilities to use one’s abilities and be good at what one wants, human rights, abolition of child labor, justice, right to seek justice and defend oneself, freedom of speech, possibility to live free and in peace without threat. Constant sexism is a threat, constant suspicion and ridicule are threats and deny dignity and human worth.

Feminists make everything difficult when it could be so easy. It is too easy to kill, bully and torture. What about men then? Do feminists advocate men’s rights, is feminism doing anything for men? What a question one has to answer all the time. Men have been boys. Having been able to attend day care, school, to have balanced life at home, see that mother is well and able to take care of children as well as go to work has been the very result of women’s movement and feminism. Yes women can work elsewhere than at home and aspire careers. People, women and men, have ambitions, talents, dreams, future that hopefully is full of challenging and inspiring work. Especially children, boys and girls, benefit from feminism a great deal. It gives hope that to pursue one’s goals is possible. Well-being of mothers results well-being of children. Can men’s rights movement say having done the same? It is time for a deep sigh on a good day and on a bad one to shoot every one who puts feminism to dirt just because they don’t like it. Yes it opposes to machismo attitude which has caused trauma and damage to men, women and children, which is almost impossible to escape. Macho is to lock in and keep in captive, incapable to show vulnerability. Still to like feminism sounds like liking a dog, a good dog that wags its tail when you tap its head. Criticism is welcome, for most part it just is not very constructive. To play nice is not how it works or how results have been accomplished. To dislike feminism because of multiple reasons you have invented and believe are true is kind of childish and thinking hitting is what makes it all go away, because feminism and women’s rights movement just is unpleasant, unnecessary and annoying. To hate feminists is to hate progress and human rights. Feminism is raising strong opposition and the threatening atmosphere builds up quite easily between leagues and camps. There is no unison in sight.

Anatomy of a sex bomb – I just wanna make you sweat.

May 5, 2016July 27, 2019 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Sex bomb is female. We know her without looking. She is an image, a whore, a body, a look, an attitude, a way to walk and talk, audacity to live by without shame and like herself as she is or wants to be. She is explosive in a way that can be seen harmless in a film, funny, seductive, natural without being natural. Most sex bombs are products of entertainment culture offered to viewers on a plate to be eaten with our eyes, abused anyway possible, be dreamed of. She is the dinner, she explodes inside of us, corrupts us and makes us feel the happiness of living via play. Enjoyment is born through looking at a beautiful being who enjoys herself being looked at and wanted. Why she is a bomb, ammunition, lethal, destructive and why she still is seen harmless when she is made a bomb for entertainment purposes continue to puzzle me. Who makes a sex bomb, a sex toy and object of a woman, what kind of woman is that? Female evil incarnated might be one opinion, guilt and fault women bear for seduction, a seductive bitch who likes to be sexual in public without feeling ashamed for her sexuality, her reasons and motives for her behavior and looks, her skin, movement and body showing in reveling clothing, a witch. Bomb is a strong word, a strong object of power with practical form and a straightforward use, means to kill, cause harm. A harmless bomb, woman with sex appeal with one mission, a selfish desire to seduce men which yet is not so harmless according to few religious doctrines. Women whose power and strength is sexuality are a threat as such to order and maintaining structure in society. Body full of promise of good time, fun and sin, what is the sin there then other than what is meant to happen between people, a contact, a mess. Magnetism and attraction which we must reject to be considered respectable and honorable people. Humor and funniness often times connected with sex bombing is veiling our shame and that we are unable to speak freely of sex. It has to be turned into parody and she who has no brain is behaving like this because she cannot do anything else. Value of a sex bomb though is enormous. Such women truly have means to make an impact.

What does it mean to have an ego?

May 3, 2016February 27, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Does it mean one can speak of oneself all the time, bring oneself forward because one understands one’s importance as a human being in a competitive world, to value and marvel all the wonderful things one has had the pleasure to do and become? All the wonderful things that can be labelled on that person things that make him or her. What are those things and who get impressed? What happens when those things are taken away, what happens to ego? To be self-centered can be about hiding one’s insecurity, that one is not able to compete in the competitive world where we are something only when we have excellence to present as visible proof. There is weakness in a hugely ballooned ego and it is fragile in unstable world filled with similar egos, similar ideas of what it means to be impressive, sizable and important. Big egos are fragile for criticism, afraid of losing and not winning, they attack and blacklist, stump on mud trying to defeat. Big ego is fragile for negative emotions to arise and take the better of the egoist which very often happen and so easily. There is hurt and offense.

The most egotist thing to do is to do all for the benefit of oneself only, to pursue and stand for things that bring good and profit for one and few only. This is a caricature which is very real. It is a very immature type of person for whom excellence is something one is born with, god given. How many of us are egotists, narcissists, disregarding interests of other people and any other being around? By the look of it, by experience, such outlook on life is fairly common, incapability and unwillingness to take others into consideration. What does it take to grow to be considering instead of a bully? Is it the bad thing that decent people deny from themselves ever having, consideration and compassion because it is costly, time-consuming, humbling and anti-hierarchical? Is ego something the bold people possess, ruthless and greedy ones, isn’t that ego as a hollow construction, a show off and scare? We talk as we know ego. We talk it is the positive empowering pedestal, a sign of self-respect maybe, a sign of disrespect if one is a woman, arrogant and cocky. Someone who knows what one wants and is must have a strong ego among all those egos. Ego has a dark shadow, it is gendered already for children. It is the negative which is not encouraged for girls to have and a girl who shows bossy is punished for doing the same what boys ‘naturally’ express. The word ego clings to something grand, becoming and making oneself and has the clang of the worst of mankind: self-absorbed, self-centered, endless self-love, violent battle that has no end other than dead-end. When we are selfless are we without ego, without dignity and awareness and acknowledging self-worth? To be able to fight for dignity and self-worth to know what one can do is essential.

How much is it good to have an ego? Is that the right question at all, the amount of ego in us and what we do when we have self-confidence and belief in one’s capabilities. As an artist it is essential the belief in oneself. Nobody else does that for you. How essential it is to have a strong ego, not be blinded by it but have it as a force. Is it the same as large ego to have strong ego? There is no one telling me what to do, how to do what I do. I either manage it or I do not. I work as long as it takes to make the idea come true. How much does my ego effect on why I do, what I do, how I do and what kind of place I occupy for myself to be able to do the things I value? One must value oneself to find one’s passion, follow one’s interests regardless of what people around think of them and of me.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434827/individual-cowardice-killing-american-culture?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5728623d04d3012df78b5195&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter “I’ve often found myself thinking of William Butler Yeats’s classic poem, “The Second Coming.” In it, Yeats ponders societal collapse, writing: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” In our nation, the center didn’t even try to hold. The “reasonable” people made the easy choice to go with the flow of cultural upheaval.”

Dear diary, my hair.

October 12, 2015January 30, 2019 | Henna Timanttimetsä

I wish I was an atomic bomb.

June 9, 2015February 21, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

http://mashable.com/2015/06/09/post-hipster-yuccie/ “By that definition, the hipster has to be dead, killed by a contradicted identity. When everyone is rejecting the mainstream, no one is.”

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

April 20, 2015July 13, 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).”