Shari Franke is the daughter of "mommy vlogger" Ruby Franke, who was ultimately convicted of child abuse. The article also discusses Sally Mann, the photographer we talked about a couple days ago, here.
Mann has her own memoir, in which she concedes, “I wanted attention for the work and the easiest way to get it was obviously to put forward the most attention-grabbing imagery.... To be an artist means you must declare a loyalty to your art form and your vision that runs deeper than almost any other, even sometimes deeper than blood kinship.... When I stepped behind the camera, and they stepped in front of it, I was a photographer, and they were actors and we were making a photograph."
There's this quote from Molly Jong-Fast: "In [my mother's] view, she did spend time with me — in her head, in her writing, in the world she inhabited. I was there. I may have felt that she was slightly allergic to me, but to her, she was spending time with the most important version of me."
By the way, did you know "Christopher Robin Milne resented his father’s use of his likeness in the Winnie the Pooh stories, and Peter Llewelyn Davies, the inspiration for 'Peter Pan,' seemed to live in a permanent state of rage at being associated with the character."
That feminist issue has overshadowed the childist perspective. Is "childist" even a word? Actually, yes, but this is the first time I'm thinking of it, and I had to check to see that I wasn't coining it.
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The current generation of mothers have been raised to believe everything is about them.
By the same people that believe shooting Kirk was ok.
The culture of the left is poison in so many ways. It is a product of having no moorings to any sort of common moral standard. Our nation must become Christian again.
Artproxy syndrome by "mommyvlogger".
"The current generation of mothers..."
Bad news. This is way way older than current generations.
Putting your so called "art" ahead of your child is selfish and grotesque. Now these may be essential qualities for a serious artist, but they suggest that artists should remain childless. Many seem to.
This comment might seem a little oblique to the subject, but… I’ve been going to social dances on Saturday nights at a Polish social club. Almost entirely for the plus 60s crowd. What’s the music by the live band… Big Band romantic boy/girl stuff! I love that shit, even though it’s my Mom and Dad’s era. Feminism has utterly destroyed ordinary old fashioned romance. It’s basically the work of Satan. Among the Boomer elders, the nostalgia for romantic boy/girl stuff is intense.
You don’t want to be made to feel you’re property. Some parents insist upon it…
I remember David Remnick writing about his son in Paris in the New Yorker (back when I was still reading it) in the early nineties. The boy was very young, maybe five or so. I no longer remember the details, but I clearly remember thinking the boy is not going to like this someday, judging by my own kids who were by then in their twenties. To me, it was a betrayal. Now he edits it, and we can see what the magazine has become.
The boy who was the model for Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace grew up hating his father (who sounds like he was a horrible guy in a lot of ways).
Remove God from your story of life and presto, you become God. Your children are then at a risk of being ciphers.
RideSpaceMountain said...
"The current generation of mothers..."
Bad news. This is way way older than current generations.
I agree.
But in the past children were raised in some balance of man and woman influence.
This is what happens when the male influence in child raising is completely removed. Women have a much more difficult time adhering to structural social norms that interfere with their immediate feelings.
This results in a child raised without the parent thinking about what kind of adult they will become.
Child abuse was discovered in the 60s, i.e. became a "public problem" instead of a personal moral failing, and political owners took it on for power. Child sexual abuse was discovered in the 70s, same deal. This one got huge ratings, leading to hallucinatory child day care convictions.
Mother artist abuse is trying for a new iteration, but ratings are doubtful. Public problem or personal moral failing? Or a moral failing at all.
You will be made fun of no matter who you are when you are 5-10th grade. Your name, your nose, a mistake, something. But when it is something permanent that extends into your adulthood you feel more resentful. If your parent made it happen, so much the worse.
"I had to check to see that I wasn't coining it."
Coining a new word is a perfectly legitimate thing to do, and the English language loves it when you do that.
Woe to go back to the days when merely creating child porn with your own kids was "art."
Now you have to cut their pecker off to get noticed.
To be an artist means you must declare a loyalty to your art form and your vision that runs deeper than almost any other
This is why I (and, I think, a lot of people) hate performance artists so much. They think they have not just the right but the duty to make everything about them. They can ruin anything for anyone and it's all good because it's their art.
To be an artist means you must declare a loyalty to your art form and your vision that runs deeper than almost any other, even sometimes deeper than blood kinship
Of course this is wrong. The few who would even debate it would be those making money off it.
If the child’s perspective goes unacknowledged, and their compliance confused for collaboration, it might be because our focus has so often been elsewhere — on the needs and rights of the artist-parent,
Who is "our" here? Society? Others in the news business? Art critics? Any attempt to make money - sorry, "art" - off of one's children immediately strikes most people as a little slimy.
The child's perspective. Childist is childish subject to mature guidance to moderate semantic play.
Ageism is a class-disordered ideology incorporated under the DEIsm umbrella. #HateLovesAbortion
Mother is the word for "god" on the lips and in the hearts of all children, and there are oh so many mothers that relish and believe just that.
Yes it is abusive and exploitive and narcissistic. My wife and I were so impressed at the way our children and their spouses purposely avoided exposing their children on Social Media. If you saw any of the photos from "MrsErikaKirk" Instagram account that many outlets broadcast after Charlie was shot, you see they did the same in only posting publicly shots that did NOT show the children's faces. Social media is forever, and since then there are so many examples of evil people mining public posts for evil purposes.
This poor lady's mom did it to her without considering the consequences.
Feminists used to freak out over "young ladies' magazines" pressuring girls to look and dress a certain way (in the distant past before social media), well what do you think comparing yourself to a million online "influencers" who all appear more beautiful than you does? It's WAY worse than teenage angst over the handful of glamourous girls in your local school!
Pornographers making a social statement, publishing their speech, necessary for the art, hardest hit. Cultural exploitation, groomers, of boys and girls passing through puberty or younger, too, are complicit.
Men and women have complementary, competitive perspectives that temper each other's edges, a function that has been selected for its fitness.
It is noted that Mollie Jong-Fast uses by choice the name that her mother made famous, so is she just mining the same vein from a different angle?
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