By : I know right now the MRM has bigger fish to fry. Talking about the media is a trivial tactic used by feminists for them to cover up that in the western world, there is extremely little to no oppression of women, while the oppression of men persists like a difficult weed problem. But, what I’m personally more qualified to talk about, more than the Canadian legal issues that are the cause of Dan Perrins’s courageous hunger strike, or about the Calgary Expo’s hostility to the Honey Badger brigade and their upcoming legal battle, is art.Normally, I dislike talking about art as if it were only the product of its social context. This came out of the cultural Marxist thinking, still prevalent in academia, that all cultural products were only worthy of study for what they could tell us about the intellectual climate of their time periods, or about those time periods’ power hierarchies. There is some value in this. But now, the ability to produce art itself has become mass produced, taking power and social oppression more and more out of the equation when it comes to “figuring out” art, and it has become more and more about the individual psychological expressions of the artists, with the art functioning as personal statements but not so often political ones.
However, if something is being created for commercial purposes, the more expensive to make something is, the more power dynamics in society shape how it’s made. This was true of big monumental sculptures in the Renaissance and remains true of Hollywood films today.





