{"id":92012,"date":"2016-07-19T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T09:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/19\/i-saw-an-image-online-and-thought-how-interesting\/"},"modified":"2016-07-19T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T09:10:49","slug":"i-saw-an-image-online-and-thought-how-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/19\/i-saw-an-image-online-and-thought-how-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I saw an image online and thought how interesting it is that many painting throughout Western art history are called The Conversation or Two People Flirting or The Couple. You\u2019re clearly meant to see this as a pleasant interaction, but the look on the woman\u2019s face is so clearly, \u201cSomeone, please, for the love of God, get me out of here. I wish I were dead.\u201d I don\u2019t want to make sweeping generalisations, but I love the idea that basically for 600 years of Western European art, male artists were thinking, \u2018That\u2019s the look women always have on their face when you talk to them. That\u2019s not boredom, that\u2019s just their listening face.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/nov\/03\/mallory-ortberg-the-toast-interview\" target=\"_blank\">Mallory Ortberg: \u2018If men show up that\u2019s great, but we don\u2019t need them\u2019 | Books | The Guardian<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/the-eastern.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">the-eastern<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw an image online and thought how interesting it is that many painting throughout Western art history are called The Conversation or Two People Flirting or The Couple. You\u2019re clearly meant to see this as a pleasant interaction, but the look on the woman\u2019s face is so clearly, \u201cSomeone, please, for the love of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/19\/i-saw-an-image-online-and-thought-how-interesting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[109,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}