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[-] Microw@lemm.ee 92 points 2 years ago

What always bugs me about this is that they had the boys in underwear. Like, if it's fine to symbolize with clothed girls, why do you need to do it differently with boys?

[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

100% with ya, the double standards are kinda crazy. The differnce between the first two panels is pretty stark in regards to the kid, even if the point is essentially the same.

My take is that male bodies need to exposed in order to be sexualized so they read vulnerable, but female bodies are can be read as sexualized and vulnerable regardless how they are presented. But that doesn't really explain panel 4 & 6.

Weird choices. If anyone knows who the artist is, I'd be curious how they would talk about this.

[-] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

With the priest it makes sense to me considering they are infomas for being pedophiles but the rest yea why couldn't they have been clothed

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Especially since #1 and #2 are both instances of sexual violence.

I'd have dresses #1 in a choir boy outfit, #4 in a hospital johnny, and #6 can wear whatever honestly.

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Because only the males are fit to actually dress like Jesus. /s

[-] nodsocket@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[-] crystal@feddit.de 45 points 2 years ago

Because sexism is bad

[-] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I think it’s Just more apparent

[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 2 years ago

What the fuck is this supposed to mean??

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

catholic priests, sex tourism, war

(abortion?), gun crime/gangs, obesity

...hurts kids

[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago

Organ harvesting. See the cooler.

[-] Rukmer@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

I am still so confused about this one. Is this like a thing? Honestly I wouldn't be surprised anymore. All the rest is pretty real, we basically "sacrifice" children by giving religions so much power, war, unregulated fast food, etc.

[-] 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Big thing in many developing countries. There's entire villages where many people give away their own organs or those of their children for the equivalent of a couple hundred bucks. Mostly kidneys, since you can live with one of them but still pretty messed up.

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[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Or that children are being sacrificed to them. Crucification was a state punishment, so maybe they are trying to say that governments are complicit in the crime? Maybe?

Or maybe that children are our saviors/future, but they are being sacrificed on the backs of these topical issues?

Art is hard.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

That abortion thing is messed up. The rest is true...

[-] 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

It's probably organ harvesting, not abortion

[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 years ago

ITT: no one really knows what the hell the artist was trying to portray with this piece other than the blatantly obvious

[-] Rukmer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I feel like almost all of it is blatantly obvious everyone the surgeon with the cooler, since I'm not aware of any child organ harvesting epidemic (and I maybe don't want to be).

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[-] IanSomnia@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

I'm afraid to ask. What does the bottom left represent?

[-] muse@kbin.social 37 points 2 years ago

There's organ box next to them, maybe organ harvesting?

[-] IanSomnia@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Ah, that makes sense =/

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Prob some anti-medicine/ pharma/ vax or other conspiracy stuff. Organ harvesting from children isn't a thing, unless that's the conspiracy and we're right back where we started.

The only reasonable thing I can think of is lack of access to healthcare, and I guess insurance people and lobbyists don't have uniforms so they went with a doctor.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 13 points 2 years ago

Child organ trafficking is much rarer than sexual, but very much a thing that exists. Conspiracies may exaggerate, but don't make the mistake of dismissing the existence entirely as a consequence

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[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 years ago

Dog I think this is just about pedophilia or which children each person figuratively hurts?

[-] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Holy fucking shit

[-] anarchist@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

Kind of fucked up that the child in the bottom right has to pose for something he's already experiencing

[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Really unsure about the symbolism here. Didn't Jesus die on the cross for our sins to be forgiven or something along those lines? So this kinda implies the abused children die to give forgivness to the people they are nailed to here...

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I've never been to a church and neither has anyone I know.

[-] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Even in religious circles the forgiveness part is normally left out. The phrase often repeated is "Jesus died for your sins" without any mention of forgiveness. Since that is the common turn of phrase then this depicts children suffering/dying because of the sins of someone else.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

I mean this whole Jesus thing is pretty fucked up / meta, so I see no difference here

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

every human atrocities in expenses of next generations

[-] pleasemakesense@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[-] ItzzMe@midwest.social 11 points 2 years ago

Tourism and its effects on local people? Idk

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

I'm guessing sex tourism

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Asian sex tourism, cf Gary Glittter

[-] TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Camera implies upskirts I think.

[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Since it could be so many things like the other comments are pointing out, I think it's supposed to prompt conversation.

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[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

I dont understand the middle one in the upper row and the left one in the bottom row. The rest are pretty obvious to me.

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Upper middle I think is sex trafficking - used to be huge in Thailand.

Bottom left... Abortion?

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago

Maybe but the bottom left looks like an organ transporting container and i dont think they use that for abortions. But ig its art even tho i dont agree with everything it represents.

[-] Pandawhiskers@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure if it's photo clarity, but it does kind of look to me like the boy has stitched up cavity down his center

[-] door_in_the_face@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago

Bottom left looks like forced organ harvesting? Not sure how often that actually happens to children, but the world is a fucked up place so it's possible I suppose.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Wait. What's the doctor one?

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

That kid is way too young for organ harvesting though. Most of the demand for organs is from adults who need adult sized organs and kid organs won't keep growing in a body that's long stopped producing all the hormone indicators to signal for growth.

or... or, so I'm told.

[-] Deepus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Interesting, I assumed it would grow to fit

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

But what’s the context? I’m completely unaware that doctors were murdering or sacrificing children to steal their organs.

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

It's a common conspiracy theory promoted by far right nutjobs.

[-] catherine_fish@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago
[-] dipshit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It really makes you think

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