Cervixosaurus - Latest Comments

Re: Private: nature, culture, gender

cervixosaurus — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:19:49 -0000

Wow that's really interesting and I think true what you say about it
shifting these days. Although i think the 'man as sex obsessed' thing is
really used against men too- denying their emotional lives etc. I think
gender dichotomies, and dichotimies in general, are really horrible
oppressive things, if you don't feel like you can move freely between
them, or around them.

I just read joanna russ' short story 'when it changed' (http://www.scribd.com/doc/2...
which I think deals in an interesting way with the second half of your
comment- the protagonist is a woman in an all female society and 4 men
come one day, the first men in hundreds of years, and they have to deal with being made to feel weak etc. It's a great read!

Re: Private: nature, culture, gender

poet — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:32:15 -0000

Absolutely, I've come across these two contradictory false assignments too. I think there's been a slight shift towards the latter these days, with girls excelling at schools, women doing all the crafting and artsy stuff, and men being constantly excused for sex-drive-related or man-child-like misbehaviors... that's the fun thing (not.): both of these assumed assignments to nature / culture are routinely used against woman and in favor of man. I've seen this happen in a more general way, too: When woman is assumed to be strong in some way, more obligation towards others to her - when man is assumed to be strong in some way, more power and independence to him. When woman is assumed to be weak in some way, more power to others over her - when man is assumed to be weak in some way, less responsibility towards others, and more ways to excuse himself, to him.

Re: Private: I’ve got a whole nebula on my ass

poet — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:45:41 -0000

That's a very cool skirt! I feel exactly the same about too transparent skirts... but yours doesn't look too transparent anyway :)

Re: Oh gosh darn to heck!

Kim — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:48:01 -0000

I laufed so much in this post. Tnq

Re: Cuddly cuttlefish

L K — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:18:43 -0000

This is so cool!

-poet

Re: Peeking out from the rock I’ve been hiding under

Claire — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:52:05 -0000

I haven't but I am going to look them up right now!

Re: Peeking out from the rock I’ve been hiding under

Claire — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:51:45 -0000

I think we all are.

Re: Peeking out from the rock I’ve been hiding under

cervixosaurus — Tue, 31 May 2011 02:31:43 -0000

Thanks for the apology Amy, I accept it graciously. I'm sorry that you feel that by microwaving my menstrual cup, or looking at lyrebirds, or perhaps hating taking photos that I am trying to make the Alpha male a myth. It's tricky isn't it. So who do ugly unfertile women gravitate towards?? I am rather confused.

Re: Peeking out from the rock I’ve been hiding under

Amy — Tue, 31 May 2011 00:21:32 -0000

No matter how much you Cry out...or just Cry the natural order will never change despite woman with blood testosterone levels 2 standard deviations above average....dare I say "normal" and men with levels way below average men...fertile sexually attactive females will ALWAYS overwhelmingly (but not universally) gravitate towards the Alpha male the you try to make a myth..not some sensitive wimp we can beat in an arm wrestling match and "cary away" We (this includes you) will long be dead and this will still be a fact. Just because you Don't like something doesn't mean it is not true...sorry...

Re: Peeking out from the rock I’ve been hiding under

cervixosaurus — Mon, 30 May 2011 21:23:59 -0000

Have you seen the david attenborough youtube video about lyrebirds and all the crazy sounds they make?? Unfortunately all the ones I saw were silent but that's okay. Their tails are gorgeous!

Re: Peeking out from the rock I’ve been hiding under

Claire — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:47:49 -0000

Blimey, you've been packing it in!

Happy birthday, glad your polyp removal was fine, still totally jealous of your lyrebirds!

Re: Sweet: library angels, Cixous, potatoes

Bunny Mazhari — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:08:11 -0000

The last thing I'd describe your aert as is bland and predictable! You really have no worries on that front. I do sometimes feel that what I do as irrelevant as humanity heads to hell in a handcart but deep down I think an artists job is to act as the canary in the mine, to hold a mirror up to the societies we live in, the solutions and changes come as a result, or not as the case may be. It really is a tough issue to wrestle with but keep at it, that's all any of us can do.

Re: Spunky Spero

Claire — Fri, 06 May 2011 12:39:46 -0000

That is so exciting, about your work! What a great write-up!

Re: Spunky Spero

Kim — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:45:10 -0000

Im glad you included this article and Im glad that more people will find out about your brilliant work. Also Ive been fired up on the words of picnic in trees.... *smiles*

Re: Oh dear, derrida

cervixosaurus — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:10:13 -0000

I own so much leopard print! Yum! Those shoes are my favourites but they are on their last days. I have a huge box of broken shoes. Actually the only decent go-to shoes I have these days are my leopard print flats. But it's getting colder here so I really need some boots that the sole doesn't always fall off! Oh the dilemmas of only buying second hand shoes.

Re: zine fairrrrrrrrr

cervixosaurus — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:04:40 -0000

I printed it as a booklet from publisher, it's really easy and formats it so well, much faster than microsoft word. So I just printed it doubled sided, used up all my print quota at uni on zines and used the library's long arm stapler too. I don't know what I'm going to do for cheap and free supplies and resources after I graduate!!
Happy procrastinating!!

Re: Oh dear, derrida

poet — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:40:22 -0000

Congratulations on your success with your paintings! And on your refashion, it looks great! That Derrida quote is indeed awful.

Re: zine fairrrrrrrrr

Eline — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:35:26 -0000

I think perhaps you could put it up as a pdf file? How did you print it yourself? Did you make a booklet of it or...? I'm totally going to read what you already put up. Your zines sound so awesome! I've been meaning to read them since forever but because I'm currently having to write a paper I know I'll end up procrastinating on your site <3

Re: Glory day

Eline — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:32:17 -0000

I love the triptych! And pumpkin + walnut + feta cannelloni sounds soooo goooodd ugh I wish I had an oven!

Re: Oh dear, derrida

Eline — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:05:28 -0000

UGH I hadn't read any Derrida yet, that quote is awful! But your shirt is so good! I love the way it hangs and also I am a sucker for anything leopard printed so those jeans are obviously also fabulous but the shoes totally finish it off with their cute bows!

Congrats on your paintings getting sold so quickly! :D