This flyer seems to be controversial at Gilman. Carlos Antagony made it for his show on Dec. 27th. There is a rule at Gilman that says that bookers can’t book their own band. They have to get another booker to put their name on the show so that they can put their own band on the show. My name is on the board. To most idiots in the world, they think I booked this show.So, a few people come up to me and tell me how that flyer is sexist or inappropriate. How is it inappropriate? I get guys coming up to me and telling me it’s a sexist flyer. A MALE coming up to me, a FEMALE, telling me it’s a sexist flyer. It’s almost as if they are saying that I should be offended by this girl showing nipples and panties. I’m not. If you are that uncomfortable with the female body, why don’t you just hide in your little dream world of covering up women from head to foot so they can’t be “exploited” by Carlos Antagony and the rest of men like him. Bullshit. Really, it’s a bunch of bullshit.
What makes me angrier is the fact that some people who don’t even volunteer at this club felt that they had to voice their opinions about the flyer by drawing over them with feminist symbols and other shit. Really? Are you that immature? Why don’t you come up to me and we’ll discuss it or go up to Carlos. Carlos worked very hard on that flyer and Gilman spent money on printing them. Really. I cannot believe this. If you want to make a statement, print your own flyer and draw all over them instead of drawing all over the ones that Gilman paid for printing and someone worked very hard on. The level of maturity at this club astounds me. I feel like I’m back in middle school sometimes.
I really am tired of people giving the booking department shit. We make the money at the club. I think we deserve more respect than what we are receiving right now. Why are you talking shit about bookers that end up paying for Gilman’s rent? I understand that all departments are necessary at Gilman, but I feel like people love to criticize the booking department to no end and it’s not fair. I know there have been some people at Gilman that have talked shit about how I book shows. I don’t mind that so much as I mind the fact that they are saying all this behind my back and not to my face. It upsets me when I hear things like that from people that I generally like personally (others I don’t really like at all). I don’t even receive most of the criticisms.
Anyway, I think the point of this was to express that I hate the fact that some parts of Gilman are ultra-PC. Well, not so much that (because I do value most people’s opinions) than the fact that people’s maturity levels are so low that they have to draw on flyers that a booker worked really hard on or talk shit behind someone’s back. I thought I left middle school and high school. I guess not. I guess the punk scene is the same.
4 comments:
Right on Ale.
the "voice of protest" at gilman once again disappointingly representative of the mainstream paradigm: acceptance of or ambivalence toward violent imagery and reaction to or rejection of imagery that can be perceived as sexual. if we start to take issue with the content of flyers as though they are required to represent ANY part of the performance we simply wouldn't have flyers at all!
at first glance i thought this image was rather representative of a lot of women at gilman. she appears relaxed and larger than life. my thought was "attack of the 50ft woman" rather than exploitation or sexism. according to those who actually know where the image came from it was a posed photo and the woman is a model not some image pulled off the internet without her permission. i have seen women at gilman with less clothes on... are we really that scared of nipples and panties?
some of the imagery used to protest the "sexism" displayed on the flyer makes no sense at all, specifically the woman symbol encircling the eye of providence?! does the artist even understand the images they are using?? is this cadre the "eye of god" watching down upon us, judging?
most disappointing of all is the sense that ale and any other woman or girl that doesn't fall in lock-step with the flyer's detractors are like traitors to their gender or somehow less educated about women's issues. it's very condescending and does little to create dialogue about womens' oppression which you would hope is the desire, as opposed to the constant reflex and reaction we have come to experience with gilman politics.
the stencil of the 2 babies looking in their diapers exclaiming "this is the reason we go to war" in the entry way above the photos is way more sexist in my opinion. what sort of incentive is provided to do better or different when the same old stereotypes are represented: men are bad, war-mongers that have no self control and women are meek creatures that have to constantly be protected from harm and exploitation?
Jesus Christ what the fuck is wrong with you fucks? Who gives a rats ass if a womens tits and panties are showing. It's not even a real picture of a woman. You're probably the people who go home and jerk of to barely legal college girl porn on your laptops everynight. First Gilman starts taking half the door money, which is bullshit, and now they're bitching about something they paid to have maufactured. Give me a fucking brake! Get a fucking life or snap back into reality you fucking tards!!!!
I feel like I'm a male feminist at heart and I don't take offense to the image on the flyer.It would be nice to hear someone's upfront objection of the flyer to know where they're coming from.I played a show @ gilman sunday and remember seeing a friend there who was uh,''scantily clad'' I guess you might say but I don't look at her like she's exploiting herself or bein a ho.She is strong and can handle her own.I think it's a sick mind of those who would look at someone dressed like that and want to exploit that person based on what they look like.
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