A Scottish women’s charity said Carpenter’s new album cover evokes “tired tropes” of women being “possessions,” while fans have defended her cover as satirical commentary on sexism.
That’s fair. But art still falls into politically useful, politically useless, and politically harmful categories. I’m going to prefer the useful and I’m going to tell people to make more of the useful and less of the useless, while actively trying to prevent the harmful.
With that said. I’m not going to say something useless but entirely unrelated to politics should stop. Just that people making political art could do so in a different and more useful way.
That’s fair. But art still falls into politically useful, politically useless, and politically harmful categories. I’m going to prefer the useful and I’m going to tell people to make more of the useful and less of the useless, while actively trying to prevent the harmful.
With that said. I’m not going to say something useless but entirely unrelated to politics should stop. Just that people making political art could do so in a different and more useful way.