4 posts tagged “women”
Girls who like balls look like boys who love soccer... or something to the tune of some song I heard once. Anyway, am looking forward to checking out Offside; an Iranian film about a bunch of gals who dress as boys to get into a soccer match (women are banned from men's sporting events in Iran). Just don't mention who Iran beat to qualify for the 1998 World Cup. I'm not bitter.
The film is due for release in the States in April but thanks to the marvel that is the Internet, you can watch the whole thing online... fantastic if you speak Iranian.
Watch the trailer here (English subtitles).
Via After Ellen.
I was at a Marketing conference in Sydney last week when someone asked the 'woman' question; in this case, "why are there so few female creative directors?" All the men on stage (and they were all men) laughed it off, shuffled their feet, offered up India as an example* of equality in the workplace and we moved on to the next question. The following panel of 'experts' were so chauvinistic and condescending (to the 'young' men as well) that I'm supposing they would have answered the question with, "what are you doin' out of the kitchen honey?" I'm talking to you Harold Mitchell. Thank goodness for Amy Smith, Chief Executive of JWT - you rock and I'll be coming to work for you when I get my Masters.
A similar question was raised in NY, read about it here at Design Observer.
I ask myself, do I WANT to try and get ahead in this competitive dog eat dog homo erotic pseudo mateship bully boy playground environment? What is 'ahead'? Can you ever get to 'the top' and is 'the top' necessarily a good place to be? Perhaps if more men asked themselves these questions and developed their own definition of success rather than compare the size of their wallets/cars/penises we could begin to build a more equal environment.
* would YOU be happy climbing the corporate ladder knowing it was because of the women in your servitude who had no shot at the opportunities you do because of the caste they were born into? Equality for you is not gained at the expense of others.
...to the female Pintubi artists who are having an exhibition opening tonight in Alice Springs.
I don't know if this image and artist is included in the exhibition but it gives you some idea of the style of some of the work:
This image is copyright Papunya Tula Pty. Ltd
Western Desert art is probably my favourite style of Austrailan Aboriginal Art, it has a graphical quality that appeals to me as a designer. Further information can be found at the Art Gallery of NSW and if you do a google search of Papunya Tula it returns quite a few results.
