Being able to see it from another person’s perspective is so important and it’s something that you don’t do unless you are forced to. First Name * Please enter a First Name Please enter a valid First Name, the maximum length is 50 characters.

If someone comes with genuine feedback or a question, then I’ll take the time and talk to them, but I don’t talk with someone who is just being mean. He goes to you and says, “it’s a joke”, when he says something terrible, but it’s not how jokes work, and even if it was a joke, it’s not a good one. Perhaps future books like these will feature more diversity, given the better artistic representation people of color have had in recent decades.Nicole Tersigni has created this little delight, based upon her well-known Twitter thread of the same name. If you think about it, that’s something that happens a lot, but also makes you wonder about the painter’s position, whether he meant the painting to be a denunciation or he just sat there watching what was happening, doing nothing to help.

People identified with it: being able to laugh about something that is normally so frustrating connected with them. MEN TO AVOID IN ART AND LIFE is a comical art/coffee table book consisting of classical works of art that have been captioned to make fun of mansplainers. She said that I was in the newspaper; she showed it to her mom and she laughed a lot, and she hadn’t heard her mom laugh in a long time.To those who will get the joke and to those who won't (in the hope this will open their eyes even a little bit). Obviously, that was not the artist’s original intent, but what is so wonderful about art is that you look at it and put your own lived experiences into it and interpret it that way.