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This morning
on ye olde CBC radio, I got to hear a sports pundit make an annoyingly false statement -- namely that sexism simply doesn't exist for the "young folks"
. In his mind, sure, his generation (I'm guessing middle aged) was capable of being sexist, but certainly not those post-racial, post-difference, Obama-votin' youngsters!
What-ever.
Anyway, though dude was discussing soccer, not sculpture, I gotta just yet again restate the obvious: sexism (and other kinds of discrimination based on outward identity) most certainly do exist across all generations. Though things have gotten a lot better in recent years for the ladies (a fact for which I ironically thank Goddess) I hope my sports-loving colleague simply somehow failed to read
the fairly recent news of profoundly ingrained sex harrassment in Ontario high schools
? Or missed the release of the
WHO report that shows women of all ages around the world continue to die because of ongoing sexism
?
In any case, I'm very happy the
Guerilla Girls
are still working hard to put the lie to the idea that sexism is all over and done with. Next week,
the GGs are releasing a new poster
commissioned by the
Galerie de l'UQAM
. The commission, and a related exhibition, are timed to coincide with the
20th anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique shootings
, which, as most of us know, specifically targeted women.
The show is only slated to be up for a short time (December 4 to 19) but hopefully the related poster--as with so many GG gems--will live on in wide distribution.
Image of the
Guerilla Girls' UQAM poster from their website
posted by Leah Sandals at
5:55 PM
on Nov 23, 2009
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