[lbo-talk] M.I.A. on Lady Gaga and more

Matthias Wasser matthias.wasser at gmail.com
Wed Apr 28 07:07:40 PDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Why are fine art and intellect necessarily masculine? And why is Grace
> Jones lacking in emotion? There are plenty of dumbass male pop icons - just
> name the boyband of the week. This response to Dery looks like it just came
> out of a bot.
>

Yeah. Fine art is clearly gendered as feminine. Intellect is more ambiguous, but can definitely be a violation of masculinity norms.



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