Manet masterpiece given 'MISOGYNY' alert over 'male gaze': London's Courtauld Gallery puts 'woke' warning beneath 1882 piece A Bar at the Folies-Bergère... due to barmaid's 'unsettling' expression about man shown in mirror

UK Daily Mail ^ | April 12, 2022 | Harry Howard

[G Larry]

Normal behavior is being banned while disordered behavior is celebrated.

[alexander_busek]

He's obviously thinking of ways to exploit his "Male White Privilege" to subject her to patriarchal oppression.

It's as plain as day!

Regards,

[dforest]

They are bothered because it depicts in their mind heterosexual. If that barmaid was a guy, this would get the “art of the century award”.

[StAntKnee]

Can’t help thinking we are nearing a tipping point on such nonsense, that the woke nonsense bubble is bound to burst.

More troubling to me is that I can’t make the angles work on that reflection. If that mirror goes straight across the backbar, as it seems to; and given that she’s staring straight ahead; we should see his top hat behind her head, eh?

Most troubling of all? That bustle under her dress seems to be an advertisement for big butts. I’m deeply offended that it is cultural appropriation.

[Luke21]

Feminists and their woke pals make my late grandmother seem libertine. She used to chase us out of the house when my aunt was nursing. A raging southern baptist. Orwell referred to the “No sex league” in “1984.” Every look, every thought must be policed.

[SpaceBar]

The U.S. is the ground zero of serious mental health problems.

[libertylover]

A gentleman approaches a bar-maid at a bar, almost certainly asking for a drink of some sort, since bar-maids are there to provide drinks to gentlemen. ... Heads explode.

Yes, but it's OK to advocate child genital mutilation in order to "correct God's mistake".

[Repeal The 17th]

The man is from the Department of Public Health.
He is telling the woman that she and her business are non-essential.

[Roccus]

Unbelievable!!

A patron at a bar thinking he’s got a shot with the barmaid.

[Impala64ssa]

So this misogynist walks into a bar.....

[Mathews]

She looks bored...

[Yo-Yo]

She looks bored...

No doubt from listening to his constant half-drunk "mansplaining."

[Dr. Sivana]

Her expression appears jaded like she is asking...”Yeah bud, what’ll ya have?” She doesn’t look exploited to me!

My class looked at this painting in ARt Appreciation in high school. The main impression we got was that the poor woman was worn out, look at the size of the crowd in the mirror, that is a serious rush of customers.

[seowulf]

They are bothered because it depicts in their mind heterosexual. If that barmaid was a guy, this would get the “art of the century award”.

I think her look says that this obvious homosexual just asked her for a glass of champagne.

[brewer1516]

The left are more Taliban than Puritan.

[simpson96]

In time, all art will have ‘warnings’. Then it’ll all just be banned, and disappear.

[Dead Corpse]

I am offended by the misandry inherent in the other twits description of the “male gaze”.

[mdmathis6]

Yeah i guess I can see that...I used the term “jaded” in terms of being “world weary”, some what cynical and wanting to stay somewhat disconnected from the customer she’s serving.”Hey, bud what’ll ya have...? or expressions like it are heard all over the world in any bar no matter the language or the country...and the look from the bartender is always the same at 1 am in the morning in what ever country.Just my opinion... worth only the 2 bucks it takes to get coffee from mickey d’s.

If Manet had painted a man with that same expression, would your class have had the same reactions that you described, do you think?

[Billthedrill]

Some people are just too delicate for the cruel real world and should be locked up for their own protection. The rest of us just order a drink.

[ResponseAbility]

I’m wondering if the labels on the bottles are accurate and identifiable. A couple of the bottles look like Bass beer labels, and one bottle looks like a Grande Marnie bottle. Just wondering if the artist violated copyrights, or if he was compensated for label placement.