irisrukka:

Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs by an unknown artist, 1594

yousaytheydontcare:

stonerprincess:

ladies, that pussy stank won’t get you anywhere in the workplace

AHHHH i am going to delete this soon bc on my theme the text isn’t visible but even beyond the obvious horror this is horrible. bring quotes from higher-ups, such as, great job on the … project, you made me look good? and 6 & 7 have overtones of.. condescension? something icky.

my mother and i were talking about the also horrible talking vagina commercials from them, and we concluded that the problem is basically that the people running the company must be the same people who were running it in the 1970’s, aka the only people who still use crap like this. when you look at the appalling racial stereotypes and compare them to racial stereotypes present in popular culture in the 1970’s, it suddenly begins to come together. similarly, this reads like they’re encouraging women who had only just considered that maybe, they don’t have to be housewives to speak up for themselves in the workplace.

the horror happens because they’re trying to market to young women of today with tactics and a mindset that could only have marketed successfully to young women of 40 years ago.

I don’t understand why these types of products still exist at all. Leave your vaginas alone, people, they take care of themselves! Washing it out with some scented chemical solution/scrubbing it with soap/spraying perfume at it is only going to give you a yeast infection.

But this promotion is just unbelievable.

adorable artist couples edition IV

Megan Evans and Les Griggs,
The Reconciliation, NGV 1994
(Les Grigg’s contribution isn’t pictured.)

“We were both artists as well as romantics. I loved the possibility of our relationship. I saw it as a microcosm of what was possible at a national level. If we could reconcile our differences (dominant Anglo, Indigenous incarcerated) then perhaps it would be possible for the country to transform its legacy of violence and denial.

When Les died we were no longer together. He was living with someone else to whom he had a child and another on the way but I was linked to him through our art. Our marriage had failed but I guarded our friendship fiercely. It represented too much for me to just let it go…

I was working on a collaborative work when he passed away… I had photographed him for the portrait only nine days before.”

Megan Evans, “Personal political emotional”, Artlink Vol 29, No 3, 2009

It feels odd grouping this in with the “adorable” artist couples, given the tragic end to their story, but I found it incredibly touching.

d’aww.