Whats the problem? The guy is looking her squarely in the eyes.
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.
For godssake, dude just wants a freakin drink.
No need to interpret art anymore. Zager and Evans predictions are coming true.
The Woke are so freakin’ prudish and, in a way, provincial that they make the Puritans look like libertines.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail prints more “unsettling” images than any other paper in the world.
The insane kooks have moved from “trigger warnings” to “unsettling warnings.” Is that because “trigger” itself triggered a trigger warning?
What comes after an “unsettling warning”? A “You will need your blanky warning”? A “Thumb sucking warning”? A “Quivering mass of protoplasm” warning?
“barmaids at that time often had a 2nd job in the world’s oldest profession so the man could be an arrangement with her.”
Don’t validate their claims of misogyny. His eyes are looking at hers, not down at her cleavage. I know what you say is historically possible, but it’s not to be found in this painting.
Her expression appears jaded like she is asking...”Yeah bud, what’ll ya have?” She doesn’t look exploited to me!
Just watch.
Actually, what’s kind of fun about this picture is that it includes the first-person character in the image; it’s the artist, or even funnier, the viewer, in the reflection.
The thing is that she’s making a very genuine, emotional response while looking the first-person character in the eye. Combined with his inquisitive, eye-to-eye gaze, it seems less like she’s saying, “O, Gawd, what the **** do you want?” and more like she’s about to open up to him about how her day has REALLY been going.
And while it’s funny to imagine her telling the viwer, “Oh Gawd...,” it’s probably much more reasonable to suppose that as an artist, he was concerned with her mental state.
People have WAY too much time and money on their hands apparently.
Normal behavior is being banned while disordered behavior is celebrated.
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.
The U.S. is the ground zero of serious mental health problems.
The man is from the Department of Public Health.
He is telling the woman that she and her business are non-essential.
Unbelievable!!
A patron at a bar thinking he’s got a shot with the barmaid.
So this misogynist walks into a bar.....
In time, all art will have ‘warnings’. Then it’ll all just be banned, and disappear.
I am offended by the misandry inherent in the other twits description of the “male gaze”.