KB: He or she is Simone de Beauvoir's "serious man", eager to get rid of duty to be free. His "dishonesty issues from his being obliged ceaselessly to renew the denial of this freedom." (The Ethics of Ambiguity). Or Thoreau's "wooden man" who can be made by the state, the army or company to carry out atrocities with "no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense" (Civil Disobedience). Invisible rivers of blood flow from the wounded consciences of those who do nothing but for petty self-interest and to maintain the status quo. He is the Nazi officer of Arendt’s Banality of Evil.
This is not about men as such, but about old fashioned patriarchal forces still at play in contemporary life, perpetuating a senseless domination of human and non-human life forces through the bureaucratic and administrative channels, under the auspices of contemporary austerity politics. We are talking about cynicism, defeatism and the erasure of humanity at the hands of neoliberalism's careless foot soldiers.
Since the 70s female artist have repeatedly returned to their bodily experience as a place of personal political intelligence. As a multiple, open, distributed feminine identity, here we have returned the compliment of centuries of male artists projecting their ideas, ideals, dreams, analyses, psychologies onto naked female bodies while marginalising or suppressing other bodies, specifically the queer body. Yes, it is rude and vulgar. The situation demands it, along with other rude and vulgar coordinated radical voices and actions.