Guerrilla Girls

We read how there was discrimination against female artists and how they received less pay than their male counterparts. You read about artists in the past and of their great accomplishments but the majority of them were male. This of course is not fair and does not show the entire spectrum at all. There has been in fact many women artists in western history, but they just don’t get named.  I also found it unjust that they were not even allowed to go to art schools or be a part of an art guild either. I found it also offensive that people would think that female work “didn’t meet their ‘impartial’ criteria for ‘quality.’”. Still looking at modern times, even though more art by women have been accepted, it is still not balanced with those of men. Furthermore, there were quotes by men on the sideline of the Guerrilla Girls article that degraded women. The one I found most shocking was “every woman would prefer to be a man, just as every deformed wretch would prefer to be whole and fair, and every idiot and fool would prefer to be learned and wise.” I simply cannot believe those were some of the comments that were being said about women.