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A striking photo series shows the sexism women face in their everyday lives.
"Boundaries,"
by artist and photographer Allaire Bartel,
is a jarring visual symbolization of male entitlement in a woman's everyday life.
"In this series you will see one woman, an average young professional, depicted in routine daily situations," Bartel's
website explains. "The concept of male entitlement is represented by male arms and hands performing a variety of actions that are overwhelmingly intrusive on her body and her life. In each situation she maintains a blank expression, a visual choice that demonstrates how conditioned we as women have become to accept this atmosphere as excusable and even normal."
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Bartel produced the series through 2014
Young Photographers' Alliance Mentoring Program, working with her model to come up with situations where they had felt oppressed or singled out because of their gender.
"Every photo in the series, while not an exact replica of an event, is modeled to represent a situation in which [myself or the model] had experienced sexism or harassment," Bartel told The Huffington Post.
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Wow, what I'm getting here from some of the male commenters is that a woman has an unreasonable sense of entitlement if she doesn't want to be groped by some random guy.
The kicker is that these men feel like THEY'RE the victims if they can't just handle women like objects.
I think most of the male commentators are taking this as symbolic, not an actual physical assault. Those are two different things. the article is not entirely clear as to what it represents.
It appears that way. What I think it is, is male repression. It wasn't that long ago when men can do those tings and the further you go back the worse it was for women. I think what we are seeing is a little pent up rage for how rapidly times are changing. Many men currently employed seen a drastic shift from grab ass as friendly banter to illegal. While I do not object to women gaining personal rights as fast as possible. A discussion needs to be had with the large population of men that do object. It is a problem I see playing out naturally. During these final transitional periods a lot of heads are going to bump. I also feel men are being pushed at every front. Twenty years ago co-workers were blowing us and now we can't even look at the butt that is now more revealed than ever. A balance needs to be reached. While I agree wi...th you I also empathize, mainly because I a man, with the men on here. Not only that but some girls are really out going and you never know which one she is without asking. You know men are terrible with word. Upon my arrival to adulthood I thought it polite to call women dollface. At first it was. I stopped using it as a polite greeting when suddenly it became sexual harassment. While I never indulged in grab-ass with female co-workers that too was normal at-work-play and than bam one day that is sexual harassment. I think this anger we see is more backlash that is hard to put into words. And if you know us men you know we say stupid things when we're anger. (everybody does)See More
These are great. They show how any woman; just doing her job, walking down the street, doing everyday things; can be ambushed by sexism when she least expects it. And, all too often, actually physically ambushed.
Yes cause woman are perpetual victims who have no control. They should all be assigned bodyguards. Sure, wear the halter top, then cry if someone notices and says something. You can control their behavior.
Nate Riggins Each one needs four men to carry her around in a sedan chair, and one to make sure no peas are under her cushion. Only then will she be comfortable and "equal".
You want it, you make it. This is her art, and so it addresses issues she sees. Feel strongly about something? Don't be lazy and whine about how no one's addressed your issue. Do it yourself.
lol whining? An entire set of pictures that all but says the male community is full of sexist animals constantly humiliating women every chance they have, and this dude's clever little comment is addressed like its serious attack. Don't you begin to see the irony?
I would like to think that I have the same core values that the head coach at the University of Texas, Charlie Strong has for his team and his players and that is..... TREAT WOMEN WITH RESPECT!!!. I think as men we should all have those same values and it is not hard to do.
Nate Riggins I agree the door should swing both ways. Both sexes should learn to treat each other with respect. But with all of that being said, please tell me how many times do you hear about women being accused of raping men? How many times have you heard about women beating up men or killing men? How many times have you heard about men being sexually harassed by women in the work place? Now I know, that some of the aforementioned things have happened to men, but it is far, far more likely that women are likely to be the victims of those kinds of things happening to them by men than it is for men to have those kinds of things happening to them by women. All of the crime statistics and data prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Bradley Gomez why do women
wear skirts so high that
if they dont hike it down
every few seconds that you
will see the THONG that they
are so desperately trying to
show off.
Quit this behavior and you will
see that the "harrasent
Great concept, but I wish the photographer had pushed it a bit more: perhaps by making the arms and hands semi-transparent to suggest that just because we cant see it happening, that somehow it just isnt. This really is nice work. but it feels like the first draft of what could be pretty awesome.
Of course a transparent hand could also be misinterpreted as the hand not being real, the exact opposite of the intention. But I suppose if a viewer were seeing these in a book (with a title or description), or an article like this it would be more obvious. I'm thinking just on a photo by photo basis I guess.
Stylistically, I agree: It is sophomoric and not worthy of this much attention, artistically. The photographer has gone for shock value instead of genuine craft, which is like putting sprinkles on a turd. The Achilles' Heel of this series is that the photographer, an avowed feminist, falls into the trap of stereotyping the women as well as the men. Ever notice how Victoria's Secret store window displays always feature young, small breasted nymphlike gorgeous women but the majority of the women shopping their look nothing like the models? That is a glaring disconnect. Likewise, the photographer has the same disconnect and does the cause a disservice by insinuating that only attractive white women get hit on or are the victims of Domestic Violence. Most DV victims are black and overweight females. Men are more likely to ge...t raped in America than women (rapes happen every day in America's prisons). Men are subject to half of all Domestic Violence but due to shame and a lack of protection by Police men are less likely to report it. The photographer's choice of a beautiful woman as a subject really demonstrates the photographers own ambition to be a fashion photographer and using the subject of Sexual Harassment as a vehicle while backing the bus over the actual victims who are black, obese, homely and frequently men....."yeah, but that just doesn't fit the narrative we want to sell", the photographer would say. If the pretty girl bleeds, it leads cause homely dont sell.See More
I don't get it. Is it saying that eyes are like hands? Also why is the lady at the stove being strangled as opposed to groped?
I feel like it's a strange message to be saying that looking at someone or something is the same as touching it, cause they are by definition different things. I feel like I missed the point pretty badly here.
Elizabeth Doyle - Trying to coax a woman into giving out her phone number is especially troubling. I've even heard of men at bars trying to ask women for their numbers because they found the women attractive!! Can you believe that?!?
It's called men bashing and victimhood... don't bother only feminist are entitled to be professional victims. Basicaly everything a man do or do not can be called sexist, misoginist or something else.
Eli Hathaway
yes and just because they think she's attractive doesn't mean if she avoids giving them her number on the first try she wants them to continue to bother her about... hence the "coaxing" part. they wouldn't have to coax if she'd already agreed to give them the number the first time around.
Jill Gillian It was art, and posed. But you knew that, and straight out of the professional victim card playbook you threw out an indignant snarky response to a statement that was not made.
Nope, not at all. The snarky comment was made by Donald who seems to think guys grabbing someone's throat our of the blue never happens.
IT may be art here in this series of pics, but it does happen - by men who assault their partners, for instance.
Oddly enough, it happened to me once, by a "friend" who, oblivious to etiquette, reached across a table to demonstrate a security technique . Though I knew he didn't mean to be threatening, I didn't like it at all.
A similar thing happened to a male I knew, by another male.
Maybe you should get out more, or read more, or just understand that just because YOU haven't experienced this or YOU haven't done this, that these things do happen and being snarky or contemptuous about them doesn't help anything.
Oh my god, you mean there are still men who are sexually attracted to women!!?! Don't they know that's politically incorrect in this day and age! I just can't believe there really are people who think the female body is beautiful and sexy, what an outrage!!
This photo series deserves an Emmy at least for it's powerful message!
I think this message has failed, I understand what its trying to say, it just doesn't do a very good job expressing it. What do the hands represent? Actually being groped? Some guy checking her out? Some guy telling her she looks pretty? Asking her to cook dinner?
It fails because it is ham-handed in it's delivery. It fails because the hands/arms are disembodied, so it makes no sense - for example the bar-stool picture - what's up with the guy lying on the ground? Is he in need of help? is it a zombie? What about that office photo - for goodness sake there's a dude hiding behind her chair - what the heck is up with that?
Marc Sylvestre I agree.. Photographically, it just doesn't make any point with clarity.. It implies many things.. Probably many more things than the original idea the photographer wanted to convey.. It's sloppy work, sadly. It was not ready to be seen.. It needed more critique.. Sigh.
It's sexist to think that only women suffer from sexism. Women are sometimes even worse. How you all say it? "a real man this", "a real man that" as if you can define it.
And women cat all the time. They even do it in front of the man's wife/girl.
This is not saying that ONLY woman are victims of sexism, it just focused on women because this happens more often on women than men.. But you're right! Men also experience sexism in many ways and it'll be very interesting to see something like this from you guys... You know, instead of just complaining on "Huffington Woman" :)
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