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This reads like every indoctrinated airhead feminazi, art-school, gender-studies wannabe trendy stereotype troll there is. Except this shit is real.

In a nutshell: an 'empowered' attention whore devises a cheap way to gain extra exposure to herself by (in all likeliness) manufacturing hate mail against herself. The 15-minutes of Tumblr fame here she comes.

"This is Lindsay Bottos, a 21-year-old Baltimore based artist and a senior at the Maryland Institute College Of Art.



Bottos, a Photography Major and Gender Studies Minor, runs a Tumblr page where she often uploads selfies, as well as pictures of her work.

Since starting the Tumblr in 2010, she has received hundreds of cruel anonymous messages. Last week, she decided to turn the words of hate into a feminist art project; she screen-capped some of the messages and posted them over pictures of herself.







The Tumblr post, called “Anonymous,” is a work in project, she told BuzzFeed. But it nonetheless quickly went viral, garnering over 85,000 notes and drawing in about 20,000 new followers. Bottos has explored sexism through photography in various other projects, including her senior thesis. “Anonymous,” however, is her first project about her online life.

“People say selfies are a cry for help or a cry for attention, but wanting attention isn’t bad,” Bottos said.

“The act of women taking selfies is inherently feminist, especially in a society that tries so hard to tell women that our bodies are projects to be worked on and a society that profits off of the insecurities that it perpetuates. Selfies are like a ‘fuck you’ to all of that, they declare that ‘hey I look awesome today and I want to share that with everyone’ and that’s pretty revolutionary.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/t...ages-in-a?