Motivational Illustrations Inspire Women To Fight Gender Prejudice
Earlier this year, Brazilian artist Carol Rosetti started creating powerful illustrations for her series called “Women.” The series focuses on many of common prejudices women face every day concerning what people say they should or shouldn’t do with their bodies and their lives. These simple yet powerful illustrations inspire women to take their lives in their own hands, no matter how society tries to shape their behavior and preferences.
What Rosetti started as a small project to share on her blog and Facebook page with her friends, quickly became viral, reaching women around the world. The illustrations have already been translated into at least 16 languages by volunteers who contacted the artist, believing that the messages the drawings carry need to be seen by women in their countries.
With these illustrations the artist also clarifies the definition of feminism as a stand for equal rights for both women and men. She also reaffirms that it is still a relevant issue world-wide.
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Got wisdom to pour?
*sigh* will this never end?
Ok I’ll be the devil’s lawyer here. Shouldn’t there be something in between? I mean if you don’t like some “unwritten laws” of society for whatever reason you are free do to as you wish, that’s undeniable. But along with your choice you have to take on the criticism, ill-meant or not.
I, for example, am far from the “casual man stereotype” and I’ve been criticized a lot for wearing shirt and tie on college, avoiding clubbing and night life, and prefer the company of books rather than of video games, but I don’t let that get into my way, nor do I attack the person who’s criticizing me. In fact a lot of them are my friends and despite that I am able to be engaged into long, fruitful friendships without any problems. Something I wouldn’t be able to do if I was to nag about it all the time.
What I mean to say is that it’s ok if you like to have casual sex with a lot of people, for example, but why would you like to brag about it? I know that in some cases women are being criticized whether they publicly display their decisions in a provocational manner or not, but it is my opinion and experience that the latter group of women (those who choose not to share publicly their way of life) don’t have any particular problems, nor do they need “motivational illustrations” to justify their behavior, and throw the blame on sexism.