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When I look at the images I think of alot of things- I think of greece, rage , strength, industrialization, hardwork, etc.-In the cononated sense anyway, their words that are often used to descibe "masculinity".
But when I look at the pictures more carefully and read the headlines i'm not so sure if this is a commentary so much on male privilege so much as it's a critque about the ways males are taught to think of themselves ("the male myth" if you will).
For instance in the first image, it reminds me of that saying "boys don't cry", it's as if the artist is making a mockery of the idea that men have very planned out feelings and when their going to feel them. The second one seems to suggest that instead of seeing "manias" as serious mental problems their viewed as progress (I also think it's intresting that this volcano also envokes a picture of a bomb exploding, another "miracle" of science) and the third seems to sugges that every little thing that a man does is history-worthy.
The pictures seem to play with this concept of the "natural facts" of how males act, feel and live.
It's odd that you'd look at this objective pictures and see signs of mascuilnity, seeing as they shouldn't envoke anything except what they actually are-a torch, volcano and farmer hands- but it is the way that culture has conotated the images to mean something about men-rugged, touch, aggresive, explosives, wrathful, not subtle, hardworking, etc.- into the way we interpert these images. The headlines on the photos simply draw out and question what that may actually be.
Perhaps, even further, this images say something about science and history as they could definately be conotated that way also. Does History or science have an masculine slant? So that these things we think about as "male" also apply to "history" and "science" also? If that's so then where do the women fall with these conotated images? Does it seem to suggest that women DON'T fit into these conotated images and neither do men who don't live up to these standards?
Atleast that's the way I saw it.