March 8th, The Day of Womxn

[Yupo]

I subscribe to mailings from a company called Spoonflower. Quite an interesting company. Independent artists can design fabrics and wallpapers, sell them there, allowing them to be customized by customers with motif sizing, colorways, various fabrics, texture/finish and paper choices. Customers can upload their own designs as well. As you might imagine, there's probably something for anyone.
The mailing today, in honor of Womxn, made me shudder, with suggestions to look at designs about menstruation. I can't think of a good use for such fabrics or wall coverings. OK, maybe use the fabric as a lining for a bag for sanitary items? A bit of overkill, but would probably sell on Etsy. But wallpaper?
Am I turning into a prude? Am I out of touch with society? This is an aspect of femininity that I think is best kept private. Ditto most bodily functions.
Attached are a few of many examples. Avert your eyes if you are like-minded.
There are sections of that site I do not want to explore.

If we get to declare our pronouns, why can't we declare our preferred English spelling patterns?




This hasn't put me off of the company. A few weeks ago I went there hoping to find some fabric with a Ruth Bader Ginsberg theme. My friend thinks RBG hung the moon. I wanted to make something fun for her birthday. There were so many choices on this one theme that I could not decide!

 

[Mililea]

No words... which woman would like to be confronted with these things on a wallpaper every day? I'm tired of the time in month I MUST
I don't think you're prude, otherwise it would be me, too

 

[ryu]

I subscribe to mailings from a company called Spoonflower. Quite an interesting company. Independent artists can design fabrics and wallpapers, sell them there, allowing them to be customized by customers with motif sizing, colorways, various fabrics, texture/finish and paper choices. Customers can upload their own designs as well. As you might imagine, there's probably something for anyone.
The mailing today, in honor of Womxn, made me shudder, with suggestions to look at designs about menstruation. I can't think of a good use for such fabrics or wall coverings. OK, maybe use the fabric as a lining for a bag for sanitary items? A bit of overkill, but would probably sell on Etsy. But wallpaper?
Am I turning into a prude? Am I out of touch with society? This is an aspect of femininity that I think is best kept private. Ditto most bodily functions.
Attached are a few of many examples. Avert your eyes if you are like-minded.
There are sections of that site I do not want to explore.

If we get to declare our pronouns, why can't we declare our preferred English spelling patterns?

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This hasn't put me off of the company. A few weeks ago I went there hoping to find some fabric with a Ruth Bader Ginsberg theme. My friend thinks RBG hung the moon. I wanted to make something fun for her birthday. There were so many choices on this one theme that I could not decide!

No @Yupo , it's not you, don't worry. It's doesn't offend me, but seriously, who would want to buy a wallpaper with panties and menstrual cups on them?! It's just bad taste, just as naming women's day womxn. Thanks for denying women's existence...

I would be ready to pay a fat lot of money just to have my periods once or twice a year, so I will.not.give.a. penny. for a wallpaper that reminds me EVERY DAY how crappy I feel a few days each month.

Just out of curiosity, how much costs a roll of this wallpaper?

 

[mamibio74]

Always lower in provocation ! it's distressing. For the woman's day a huge clitoris was exposed. This is so grotesque.

 

[Kari Baba]

Yes, I know this culmination of bad taste. You can find clothes of angry wombs and other feminist nonsense on redbubble.com. I'm not a prude at all, but I'm still able to spot horrible designs.

 

[KristinLynne]

I don't think you are a prude because beyond bad taste, this is sad expression of how far design has fallen IMO. It may be just me, but on one hand it seems like women are being reduced to their monthlies and child bearing capabilities on what is International Women's Day and on the other hand wouldn't this offend the trans women? Either way it is just weird and gross!

 

[Recto]

Speaking of disturbing trends around menstruation, it reminded me of women cooking dishes using their menstrual blood :

The Women Who Sneak Period Blood Into Their Partners’ Food - Stay at Home Mum

Period blood. Most of us are glad to be rid of it when Aunt Flo comes to town, disposing of it along with tampons and pads or those cup things some of you are into shoving up your vajayjays to gath…

www.stayathomemum.com.au

It is not just you @Yupo, this open display of disturbing behaviors clearly shows that people are definitely losing their marbles nowadays

 

[bjorb]

Speaking of disturbing trends around menstruation, it reminded me of women cooking dishes using their menstrual blood :

That's just Satanic ...

 

[jupiterbeings]

Modesty is dead!

 

[gottathink]

I also think is totally weird but absolutely in line with the movement to inculcate us to only identify with our bodies and not seek deeper meaning and spirituality in life.
Is it OPs screaming ‘me too’?

 

[ryu]

Speaking of disturbing trends around menstruation, it reminded me of women cooking dishes using their menstrual blood :

The Women Who Sneak Period Blood Into Their Partners’ Food - Stay at Home Mum

Period blood. Most of us are glad to be rid of it when Aunt Flo comes to town, disposing of it along with tampons and pads or those cup things some of you are into shoving up your vajayjays to gath…

www.stayathomemum.com.au

It is not just you @Yupo, this open display of disturbing behaviors clearly shows that people are definitely losing their marbles nowadays

Menstrual Blood in meal is an old "habit" among some African and Carabean peoples. I've met people who had their roots in those areas and yeah, apparently if a woman wants to "mark" a man as hers, she makes him eat a dish with her menstrual blood in it, so that he falls under her spell, marries her etc,etc . If this man marries another woman, something bad will happen to the couple... You guys need to watch your back!

 

[Approaching Infinity]

Not a prude. These people are disturbed!

 

[jess]

Am I turning into a prude? Am I out of touch with society? This is an aspect of femininity that I think is best kept private. Ditto most bodily functions.

it seems like women are being reduced to their monthlies and child bearing capabilities on what is International Women's Day and on the other hand wouldn't this offend the trans women? Either way it is just weird and gross!

I guess it depends individually on how those icons make you feel, LOL.
But I'm afraid that using related objects in gender differentiation or body parts, female or male is nothing new. I think in the sense of "feminist" provocation you can find it in the artistic work of many women artists in the late 60's-70's in the art scene, after the trend of conceptual art. Or even if you go further back in history surely some will have a feeling of being a "grotesque" sculpture towards the paleolithic sculpture "The Venus of Willendorf". It probably depends on "the eyes from which you look at it".

Perhaps the most shocking-disgusting thing is how the marketing and political media use symbols and ideologies to obtain money and power in their "benevolent" act of including all flavors and colors of today's identity spectrum.

 

[Arwenn]

I agree, it’s plain disturbing. Who needs to see bodily functions printed on wall hangings?

 

[Yupo]

The artist Judy Chicago did a ceramic and textile series a good while back called The Dinner Party. It was a series of dinner place settings, some plates were in high relief and had some degree of representation of female genitalia. Each plate was uniquely decorated to represent an historic or legendary figure. It really pushed the edges of acceptability, I thought. An original project, to say the least. I spent the day thinking about why I wasn't offended by this, and why the prints about menstruation bothered me so much. I think the use of the word womxn might have primed me to a state of disgust in this case.
But actually, there is just no comparison as far as the artistic quality.

Here is a little tour of of the art installation, if anyone is interested: