• steakmeout@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    If you have the right to take things out context I have the right to put them back into context and I don’t need to hide under the petticoats of any author, filmmaker or philosopher to do so.

    The quote is used incorrectly to imply that misogyny is good when in fact it’s about the implicit power imbalance in the male gaze the is the gateway to things like rape and murder and all manner of female victimisation by men. A valid quote used in such a manner invalidates the authorial intent.

    • Dr. Johann Foster@lemmynsfw.comOP
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      10 months ago

      Sorry you didn’t like the Roland Barthes joke. My intent is not to seriously promote misogyny.

      Sometimes we eroticize things we fear or hate or otherwise consider evil or disgusting, like feeling pain or inflicting it. This is just kink for me. I posted this on a dedicated NSFW server in a community dedicated to that kind of kink.

      The person who created the image also did not intend it to promote misogyny or kink, but to educate people about feminism (hence the quote from an ordinary journal article).