Is This Mural Sexist?

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 7:36pm
Categorized: Art - The Streets, Haters, Mission District
Tagged: Bode, LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A GOOD OLD FASHIONED GRAFFITI FIGHT

Well, it's written on a wall, so it must be true.

[Pic by The Fog Bender]

Previously on Uptown Almanac

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mattymatt said on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 8:16pm (link)

I think something can be sexY without being sexIST. That having been said, there is a definite lack of male objectification in SF murals. Where is the sexy man flesh? I demand more representation of gay gaze.

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I don't think before I type said on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 8:20pm (link)

Yeah? And? Who the F cares??
Who said art had to be "politically correct?!"

James the Stanton said on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 8:53pm (link)

Regardless of whether or not you feel like it objectifies women, it's Mark Bode! Son of famed underground comic artist Vaughn Bode. Graf artists started using Bode's characters way back when the graf thing first started blowing up, and then after Vaughn died his son took over all of his characters and started painting them and using them in comics himself. The guy is a legend, and I love Bode's ladies.

James the Stanton said on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 9:03pm (link)

And the character on the right is by Ras Terms, a completely different artist - so you can't really compare the two characters at face value as representative of male/female.

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StillSickOfDouchetards said on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 5:32pm (link)

omg...someone on UA is touting the goodness and wonder of an artist who died BEFORE the 1980s even began??!! i am *shocked!*
; P
vaughn was a trailblazer in the underground comic scene and fun (or unfun) fact: he died of autoerotic asphyxiation.

good times.

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Travis said on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 10:51pm (link)

Sexist or not, I think the whole mismatch of words and pictures on that wall is a bit of an eyesore.

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Brillo said on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 11:34am (link)

what if the sexism is an authentic expression of Latino machismo culture?

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Guy said on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 2:38pm (link)

way to ruin good art. now get back in the kitchen and cook me dinner.

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