This is an absurd, rambling post. It celebrates the absurdity of yet another corporate manufactured day, Women's Day.
The world is busily telling women how to be more woman. As I sit outside a relief camp, waiting for the opportunity to volunteer, I scroll aimlessly through my FB feed. All I see are more opportunities for women to doll up for the male gaze. A discount here, a voucher there.
So if the male gaze is really what you care about, you don't need corporations to tell you what they want. Ask a man. Let me tell you - the only two things men can gaze at endlessly are women and machines.
And so, randomly, I Googled for images of women driving tractors. https://www.google.com/search?q=woman+driving+tractor. Attached to this post are the top two images that showed up.
One image is from a stock photos site. A bunch of people put their heads together to figure out how a woman driving a tractor should look like. The other is a grab of a video from South India, where a woman demonstrates how to drive a tractor.
I follow the hashtags caravan and vanlife on Instagram. A majority of the pics are of girls juxtaposing their peachy bottoms against caravans or beautiful locales. Girl, if you're going to use that machine, use it. How does your derriere enhance the attractiveness of that machine for me?
Here are the women's day pics I'd like to see - women doing sexy things with machines - writing some tensorflow code, drilling a wall, fixing a car, riding a motorbike.
The world is busily telling women how to be more woman. As I sit outside a relief camp, waiting for the opportunity to volunteer, I scroll aimlessly through my FB feed. All I see are more opportunities for women to doll up for the male gaze. A discount here, a voucher there.
So if the male gaze is really what you care about, you don't need corporations to tell you what they want. Ask a man. Let me tell you - the only two things men can gaze at endlessly are women and machines.
And so, randomly, I Googled for images of women driving tractors. https://www.google.com/search?q=woman+driving+tractor. Attached to this post are the top two images that showed up.
One image is from a stock photos site. A bunch of people put their heads together to figure out how a woman driving a tractor should look like. The other is a grab of a video from South India, where a woman demonstrates how to drive a tractor.
I follow the hashtags caravan and vanlife on Instagram. A majority of the pics are of girls juxtaposing their peachy bottoms against caravans or beautiful locales. Girl, if you're going to use that machine, use it. How does your derriere enhance the attractiveness of that machine for me?
Here are the women's day pics I'd like to see - women doing sexy things with machines - writing some tensorflow code, drilling a wall, fixing a car, riding a motorbike.