This week we discussed the Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother." We talked about how different the photograph would have been if the mother had been a father or if the photographer had been a man. We agreed that the photograph would have been less affective.
Currently, my two friends are in New York City. I told them to send me pictures of what they were doing so one of my friends sent me a picture of the "Naked Cowboy" in Times Square. The very muscular man is completely naked except for his cowboy boots, underwear, and his guitar. This obviously made me think 'what if this were a woman?'
When walking past the naked cowboy in the square, I'm sure people laugh, take pictures with him, or try to avoid him and the awkwardness altogether. But, if it were a cowgirl, things would be different. It would be more expected that a girl was doing it because girls "like attention." The cowboy does it to make money and get a few laughs out of people, but the audience would feel bad for a girl if she were doing it. The people of New York would think "wow, that girl wasn't raised right" or "ew, I can't believe she would go out like that."
Also, because my friend was a girl taking these pictures of a guy, it is not as strange of a sight. If it were a man taking pictures of a cowgirl, people would think of it as pornography or just wrong.
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