Melanie Thibodeau is a 23-year-old graduate of Emily Carr University “a public post-secondary University located on Granville Island in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Established in 1925 as the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, it is named after Canadian artist Emily Carr.” What kind of lessons did Ms. Thibodeau learn there?
Melanie Thibodeau (b. 1992) is a Vancouver-based queer artist whose practice is focused around ideas about the body, having a body, and the ways in which materials and colour can affect one’s body. Their work is interdisciplinary, focusing on sculpture, painting, and installation, and they have previously worked with topics surrounding nostalgia and emotion; gender, sexuality, and feminism; and comfort vs. discomfort. Thibodeau’s recent investigations have been in conversation with research surrounding the notion of the fetish/fetishism, and the etymology and usages of that word.
Her “queer” art is about “gender, sexuality, and feminism”? This may explain what she posts on her Tumblr blog, such as spray-painting “Cuntz 4 Ever” and “Pussy Power” on the wall and exposing her breasts.
Ms. Thibodeau’s NSFW ideas about feminist art include such works as “Clitoris” and “Dildo” and “Fellatio.” She actually worked at a sex-toy store, where she described a “slow day at work. 7 customers in 12 hrs, and there’s no internet so i just read theory and wrote and got anxious about existing. i’ve changed so much, and have too many feels and theory and porn make me cry sometimes. . . . i need more humans in my life.” She once spent more than five hours getting a tattoo of a woman tied up in bondage gear with the mottos “Safety” and “Consent.”
Obviously, Ms. Thibodeau is the avant-garde of 21st-century queer art — posting nude selfies on her Tumblr blog and posing with her girlfriend, “Satan With a Vagina.” One hesitates to imagine the “performance art” possibilities she and her girlfriend may have in mind:
Crucifix dildos and “Satan With a Vagina”? Doesn’t this queer art make you wonder who’s in charge of Feminist Tumblr?
“Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. . . . He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don’t listen to him. Remember that — do not listen.”
— The Exorcist (1973)
Did you know Satanists claim abortion is “free exercise” of their religion?
UPDATE: Ms. Thibodeau’s girlfriend, “Satan With a Vagina,” is also quite enthusiastic about the crucifix dildo:
“The silicone is so soft…thank you Jesus!”
This sacrilegious sex toy (7-½ inches long, 1-¾ inches diameter) retails for $65, but I doubt this queer feminist duo paid full retail. You see, “Satan With a Vagina” works at a sex-toy store in Vancouver, and here’s the store’s description:
At Sweet Adult Boutique our aim is to provide you with only the highest quality adult merchandise, lubricants and massage oils. Our staff are knowledgeable, attentive to your needs and your level of comfort in an adult boutique. . . .
Located one block east of Granville St., on the south side corner of W Broadway and Hemlock, Sweet Adult Boutique features an open, brightly lit and friendly atmosphere where shopping for adult merchandise is always adventurous and fun.
This “friendly atmosphere” employs Alicia a/k/a “Satan With a Vagina.” A Portuguese immigrant with blue hair, tattoos and facial piercings, Alicia is on a “kinky journey”:
I went to a bondage class last night. I got suspended, tied up, thrown around…I took a beating. I really let my inner sub come out and play. It was incredibly fun and liberating….I still feel like I haven’t quite returned to my every day consciousness yet, and I’m happy to bask in the afterglow.
I feel like I’m learning and evolving more every day. I’m want to start tracking my thoughts, feelings and desires through this process. From now on I’m going to try my darnedest to tag all my BDSM-related posts “kinky journey”.
Onwards!
Less than two weeks after that “incredibly fun and liberating” experience, Alicia said she had reached her “breaking point” and described herself as “so mentally ill that I need drugs to remain functional.”
In other words, Feminist Tumblr.
I went through an “Everything I do is to piss off my parents” period too, when I was 5 or 6-years old.
I thought everything penis related was bad, isn’t a dildo a penis image?
Someone should tell her blasphemous art stopped being transgressive with Serrano a long time ago.
there is also a 13 to 19 year old period too that can be pretty annoying…
I am afraid to ask if our tax dollars have ever supported this cutting edge artiste.
It’s All About You t-h-e-o-t-h-e-r-m-c-c-a-i-n < Make It Easy
It’s Canada, right? Everything is supported by tax dollars in Canada.
I know, right? It’s like these Special Snowflakes live in a bubble where no aspect of culture has changed since 1978 or something. “Piss Off the Norms” hasn’t been anything close to “edgy” for decades; I’d argue that Robert Mapplethorpe simultaneously made it mainstream, and made it jump the shark.
“Screw you Daddy!” Yawn.
Muslims will separate heads from torsos for MUCH less.
Whenever this kinda story comes up, don’t get mad, just bait the actors by playacting as one of them, and arguing that attacking Christians is SO passe and BORING, and that “we should move onto Muslims”. I mean, hammer them on it. Shame them, not for insulting Christianity, but for NOT insulting other religions, as if they are “lying down the progressive job”.
LOL. “DIV is rape!”
This gives me an idea – since dildo’s are obviously symbols of male oppression, all dildo manufacturers should be shamed and boycotted! Works on Target and “Trophy” shirts.
Pulling this kind of mindgame on Feminists is like when Captain Kirk argued with a computer AI – you get them to a point where they are so twisted in bullshiat logic that their “circuits’ fizzle.
BTW, anyone care to explain to me how her “work” “Fellatio” into her “queer,” “feminist” oeuvre. Was this part of an early “Dick Period,” which art historians won’t be discussing a century from now?
An obvious question: what does a lesbian who hates all things male need with a dildo? Women can achieve orgasms, often more easily, with cunnilingus. What is a dildo other than a simulacrum of the man they are missing?
Even the feminists understand that insulting Christians won’t get your head chopped off. With Muslims, well . . . .
Is there a Cat futures market?
At least Mapplethorpe was a talented photographer with top notch technical skills regardless of what you think of the content. This stuff is just vile, and I say that as an open minded person who enjoys transgressive art work when it’s done right. This is the sign of a depraved dystopia and, intellectually bankrupt society.
or maple syrup.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eOHK4qTQy3U/VbJhesQlgYI/AAAAAAAAxPg/28Hj0O28KZI/s1600/Heavy.PNG
Cats say ‘whoa’?
God have mercy. It appears that some are managing to find their way — step by step — to Hell on this side of death.
Ever wonder if poverty could help?
Imagine if this pathetic woman had to really work to live. She would not have the time to sink into a cesspool of self-mutilation and intellectual hormonal stupidity.
Too much unearned free time takes its toll.
The snark answer is that due to the patriarchal oppression that is Neo-Darwinism, some women can’t have orgasmic bliss without having the Grafenberg spot stimulated and when trying to fit the power sex symbols together that a clitorial nub can’t get deep enough in thier partners powerful sex symbols. Therefore they need to use phallic shaped objects to achieve orgasmic bliss. Note to a real true feminist you wouldn’t use a phallic object to achieve orgasmic bliss. Therefore they aren’t true feminists! DOWN WITH DARWIN AND HIS EVOLUTION THEORIES! SCIENCE IS EVIL AND NEEDS TO BE EXTERMINATED FOR SUPPORTING THE OPPRESSION FROM PATRIARCHY!
The non-snark answer is that feminists still can’t beat objective truth about human biological responses to sexual stimulus. In plain English that is feminists haven’t yet figured out that man and woman are configured to achieve some pleasure from sex and that some women need PIV to achieve rubbing of the Grafenberg spot in addition to clitorial stimulus to achieve orgasmic bliss.
And clams got legs.
The stark juxtiposition of the words “Dick” and “Period” in your comment only serves to highlight the perceived, yet false, superiority of the Patriarchy, in the sense that men view their own genitals as individuals worthy of being given an actual name, in contradistinction to women’s genitals, which are generically viewed only through the lens of reproduction.
Denounce thyself, Christofascist Patriarchal Oppressor!
How many times do you have to be warned against jumping to logical conclusions? This is a serious, complex subject worthy of intense irrational consideration, including Thorazine-enhanced thought processes.
So (referencing even more on-point Exorcist dialogue) they let Jesus [bleep] them?
I took a quick look at her ‘art’.
The “All-Ball” presentation looks like what a four year old could do with Play-Doh before being told to clean up her mess, put the toys away and come downstairs for dinner.
Pray for these people. They’re sick, there’re lost and they’re dangerously spiritually and mentally ill. Too bad they’re more interested in Jesus dildos than in Jesus the Lord who wants to free them. The Father of Lies wants to use them, steal their soul, and finally destroy them.
And out of spite, the demons (and humans possessed by same) attempt to drag along as many souls as they can on that dismal journey to perdition.
Problem is, even WITH the meds, she isn’t functional.
Unfortunately most feminists I’ve encountered seem not to care about logical consistency enough to be worried by any incoherence in their position.
In the leftist Hierarchy of Victimhood, Muslims outrank women outrank Christians. Hence a woman can say whatever she wants about Christians, because that’s (allegedly) punching up, whereas saying the equivalent things about Muslims would be punching down, and therefore wrong.
Yes, but even while knowing that they will claim that islam is a religion of peace and you are racist for even suggesting otherwise.
Mmmm…Grafenberg spot…is there anything it can’t do?
So, um, am I the only one who clicked one of the links and immediately wondered “Since when was taking nude photos of yourself and posting them online ‘self care’?”
Next question. Who gave her that impression? Why is it self-care to her? Poor, misguided girl.
I don’t think dragging is necessary, really.
This is epitomized by the number of people who have said to me, “I’d rather go to hell than worship your God”; to which my answer can only be, “Mmkay”.
I don’t even think it has anything to do with beheading, but rather, lashing out at the greatest enemy the unbelieving world has ever known: Yahweh, through His children here on Earth.
Allah is not their enemy, so there’s no natural animosity; Jesus Christ is. Unless, of course, you ask the Pope, and he gives you this blasphemous answer:
http://washingtonpost.com.co/pope-francis-to-followers-koran-and-holy-bible-are-the-same/
“Since when was taking nude photos of yourself and posting them online ‘self care’?”
It’s just a self-indulgent rationalization. It’s the pseudo-therapeutic worldview of identity politics.
Like he did with Charles Johnson.
If I try to get in her mindset, I think she meant that actually feeling good enough to look nice was the “self-care.” (Not that it would have taken much work, ergo your confusion.) It was, of course, immediately followed by soliciting positive feedback.
I once read a review of a behind-the-scenes DVD for the Suicide Girls live burlesque. To paraphrase the reviewer’s summary, “I used to feel bad about myself. Then I took my clothes off and discovered that I’m young, white, skinny and pretty! Thanks, Suicide Girls!”
FAUSTUS. And what are you that live with Lucifer?
MEPHIST. Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,
Conspir’d against our God with Lucifer,
And are for ever damn’d with Lucifer.
FAUSTUS. Where are you damn’d?
MEPHIST. In hell.
FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?
MEPHIST. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:
Think’st thou that I, that saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?
O, Faustus, leave these frivolous demands,
Which strike a terror to my fainting soul!
FAUSTUS. What, is great Mephistophilis so passionate
For being deprived of the joys of heaven?
Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude,
And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.
Go bear these tidings to great Lucifer:
Seeing Faustus hath incurr’d eternal death
By desperate thoughts against Jove’s deity,
Say, he surrenders up to him his soul,
So he will spare him four and twenty years,
Letting him live in all voluptuousness;
Having thee ever to attend on me,
To give me whatsoever I shall ask,
To tell me whatsoever I demand,
To slay mine enemies, and to aid my friends,
And always be obedient to my will.
Go, and return to mighty Lucifer,
And meet me in my study at midnight,
And then resolve me of thy master’s mind.
THE TRAGICAL HISTORY
OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS
By Christopher Marlowe
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/811/811-h/811-h.htm
Conservatives never seem to understand this: western women did not grow up with Islam. They grew up with Christianity, and it’s oppression(especially in the sexual realm)that they are chafing against. It’s not a matter of “oh, look what cowards! why don’t they pick up on Islam!” They have no experience with Islam. Critiques of Islam need to come from Muslim women.
Anyone who is unwilling or unable to take a global, historical and philosophical view is disqualified from declaring how our society should be ordered. Unfortunately, after decades of pseudo-multiculturalism based on the liberal lie that everyone is the same, with just colorful superficial differences, many Americans are worse than ignorant; they “know” many things that just ain’t so.
No. I’ve been racking my brain for half a day, and anything I can think of, the answer is the same: it could get a straight man to do that.
Great passage from Dr. Faustus; Thanks.
what’s with the blue hair — they almost always have blue hair…
To be honest, they don’t understand Christianity either.
My post wasn’t a call to actually recruit feminists into actually opposing radical Islam (which would never happen for the reasons you assert) – my point was to shame them with it using their own “values” just to shut them up by removing their “moral authority”.
Every time they bleat about “rape culture” and “patriarchy” point out Boko Harem et al. and explain it from “their”point of view – a bunch of evil male oppressors raping women. Then “honestly” ask why feminists aren’t doing more to help those women. Through in the “race” angle too.
Feminists won’t do more of course, and that is what you rub in their face – if they won’t lift a finger to stop THAT horror, why should anyone join them or support them to fight their domestic war against the Patriarchy? Never let up – anytime the issue comes up, counter with this. The point is just to shut them up with it, to “shame” them with their own values. This works better in-person than online.
Another example is every time they demand “equality” tell them to protest outside of a post office for inclusion in Selective Service. “You’ll be truly equal when you, too, can be sent to war in a draft like men”. Funny how you never see or hear that – women in combat only comes up when they WANT to fight, not when they are TOLD to.
You’re welcome. Here’s the first part of the scene played on the reconstructed Globe Theater stage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILwZmZdk28Y
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