dialyn opened this issue on Jan 13, 2004 ยท 121 posts
dialyn posted Tue, 13 January 2004 at 8:46 AM
In light of recent protests against the lack of certain demographics represented fairly on the galleries, I would like to make it known that I am also protesting discrimination. After all I'm an aging woman, and there are almost no graphics on the galleries showing aging women or older men in any kind of relationship with each other or anyone else. I'm going to boycott all artists who don't use at least one older person in their gallery. I'm tired of the youth bias of this place. I'm going to only buy from merchants who are over 50. I'm also overweight and, an an overweight person, I resent the fact that the predominance of pictures on the gallery show thin people, and that most merchants only provide clothing that fit thin people so that we overweight people are forced to use thin people in graphics if we had the strange preference of wanting to have them clothed. Which brings me to the next discrimination. There is definitely a discrimination against people who wear clothes. As clothing wearing person, I think I have the absolute right to demand clothing on everyone else. And I don't mean silly strings up the derriere crack. Too bad I'm Caucasian. I can't really protest a lack of white people on the galleries because, frankly, there is a predominance of Anglo-Saxon types, though none of them look remotely like my family (which is a good thing, I suppose, for the viewers). But, on behalf of the Martians whose homes we are invading with metal monsters this week, I protest there are not enough pictures of Mars on the galleries. I am also plain. Studies have shown that beautiful people get preferential treatment in relationships, employment, etc. I protest that there is not enough representation of plain people on the galleries or available n the marketplace. Even though I am not yet physcially challenged, I protest that there is almost no representation of that significant portion of the population who use wheelchairs or other appartus to help them get through what is surely a more difficult life than the one I live through. I also protest the lack of representation for the every day worker on the galleries. Independently wealthy Vickys in the Temple do not demonstrate an awareness of the wealth of diversity of employment in the world (see Studs Terkel's Working if you need a starting place for inspiration). I also protest the unequal proportion of human beings in graphics. The other life forms are unequally represented. I think that's all I can protest for now. I also protest the redundancy of theme on the galleries. I think there should be a limit of three identically posed and barely clothed Vickys in the galleries, and only one should be allowed in the "Hot 20." It's a start. I have my signs ready.