I think that's what icked me out so much about the Boing Boing comments. These are people here, they're in a weird and fucked up situation, and yet the most human empathy some people can come up with is "I'd hit it".
As for the "positive sexism" thing... I don't think that's what the artist was trying to convey. She served in the IDF, fifteen years later she went back to document the lives of other women in the IDF as a way of understanding what she herself went through. It's very hard to think of these people as delicate little flowers that need protecting when they're slouching casually and confidently with assault rifles slung over their backs.
I once knew a woman who was in the IDF. She loved it so much she joined the Australian Defence Force when she returned home.
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Date: 2008-08-26 06:57 am (UTC)I think that's what icked me out so much about the Boing Boing comments. These are people here, they're in a weird and fucked up situation, and yet the most human empathy some people can come up with is "I'd hit it".
As for the "positive sexism" thing... I don't think that's what the artist was trying to convey. She served in the IDF, fifteen years later she went back to document the lives of other women in the IDF as a way of understanding what she herself went through. It's very hard to think of these people as delicate little flowers that need protecting when they're slouching casually and confidently with assault rifles slung over their backs.
I once knew a woman who was in the IDF. She loved it so much she joined the Australian Defence Force when she returned home.