gillbrooks opened this issue on Mar 10, 2005 ยท 116 posts
gillbrooks posted Thu, 10 March 2005 at 7:22 AM
The Poser gallery is overflowing with images of females in various states of dress or undress. I, like many other women look through the galleries and comment on the ones that I like, regardless of the gender of the subject. I don't say things like - "EWWWW it's a girl", "Not exactly my type", "Wrong gender for me"....etc., etc., - I simply comment on the artwork as I see it, as do most if not all the other female artists here who leave comments. Then why, oh why do is see comments from MALES in the galleries on male subjects (those who actually have the NERVE to comment on them) do they contain such phrases?? Some even appear to be complaining because the subject is male. Those same males rave and gush on any NVIATWAS images - but see a male render, clothed or otherwise and they get so homeophobic it creeps me out! Even fewer are the male artists who actually CREATE images with male subjects in them - particularly the pinup variety, yet again, the female artists here have no qualms about creating beautiful images containing the female form. Any guys out there who bother to read this - please grow up and learn to see art as it is, not treat the gallery as a place just for female totty eh?? Sorry for the rant but this has been bugging me for ages and I got to the point of having to have my say!!!
Gill