alvangs:

can we stop saying that georgia o’keefe painted “vagina flowers” she literally hated them being called that and spent decades trying to explain that they weren’t meant to be sexual 

the idea that her paintings were representations of female genitalia was started in the 1920s, and it was an idea first presented by male art critics. she spent most of her career trying to disprove these ideas. they’re outdated, boring, and frankly, sexist. so can we stop acting like it’s edgy or somehow feminist, cause it’s not. male artists get to have their art seen through multifaceted lenses but female artists are often reduced to things like this.