Passinate Pectus's Book
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Forbibben Love
Do women have to be fully clothed in order to enter the Met Museum? The Guerrilla Girls billboard featured a girl's bare back while she was wearing a gorilla mask and was written in large, black letters. A group of radical feminist artists created it after performing a "weenie count" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. They discovered that while there were fewer than 5% female painters in the modern art sections of the Met, 85% of the pieces depicting nakedness were created by women. On our first "going out together" anniversary, which was last month, Jay gave me the poster. I had made Jay promise that he would watch the show because I had fallen in love with its crazy, bawdy humour and wanted to contribute to the art world. I had been awaiting the ideal occasion to begin painting. My roommate Neetu told me she was going to spend the entire Sunday canoeing with her boyfriend, and I convinced Jay to follow through on his commitment instead of watching the football game on TV. Not that Neetu would mind having a naked guy in her neighbouring room. I just needed some peace and quiet to focus because she and her partner were far too loud.