Gender Equality

香港 (Hong Kong), China: A Sotheby’s employee presents Pablo Picasso’s 1937 oil painting “Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)” during a media preview. Photo: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images.

Blindsight

What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry, “Le Petit Prince”

Pablo Picasso, Chess, Paris, 1911
Artwork © Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society, New York

Big Jim Golden Commander

The online community hosted on Reddit is where men go to air their toxic views about women. Stephen Marche aims to find out if The Red Pill is perpetuating a culture of hatred – or if it’s just a place to vent How shitty are men really? The question hung in the air, invisible but omnipresent, like the smell of a garbage fire from a nearby town. By 2016, a series of catchphrases had come to dominate the chaotic state of gender politics – “male privilege”, “rape culture”, “men’s rights” – but confusion reigned. And in the middle of this confusion, a group of anonymous men retreated to The Red Pill, an online community hosted on Reddit, to revel in their loathing.

• Stephen Marche, Swallowing the Red Pill: a journey to the heart of modern misogyny, The Guardian, April 14, 2016

Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Lee Miller (1937). Copyright Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2015.

立体主义

Pablo Picasso, Les Échecs, 1911

排中律

Don Quixote (Pablo Picasso, 1955)

人生有两个主要的选择：接受现况，或承担改变现况的责任。 Rénshēng yǒu liǎng gè zhǔyào de xuǎnzé: jiēshòu xiàn kuàng, huò chéngdān gǎibiàn xiàn kuàng de zérèn. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or to accept the responsibility for changing them.

Blueback

Pablo Picasso, Blue Nude, 1902. Courtesy of WikiArt.

Picasso

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907