Abby Banks (the photographer) is showing a lot of her photographs from the book at Get This, an Atlanta art gallery.

NEED
ORDERS!

WARNING!
HAZARD!
EXPEDIENT
RESPONSE
EXPECTED!

I actually saw a similar piece at a local gallery - it was Girl With a Pearl Earing, but pixilized so much that the entire painting was represented with 12 squares.

@RRSAFETY

Are you joking?

Wow - it looks like she had rehearsed that a few times before recording it. I hope she wrote a script.

I need that script.

@tsol

We are not discussing the merits of communism. We're discussing use of fear to vilify certain lifestyles.

Seriously, have you read Babbitt?

Have any of you read Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt? Lewis basically spends 300 pages (hilariously, exhaustingly) detailing the life of Babbitt, a middle-class family man living in a prosperous midwest town.

I'm always reminded of it when I see movies like this.

@red eye

Your comment can be compared to asking 11th century Europe to give up feudalism.

In these countries, rape (and other violence) has become part of the social order. While many Africans would rather not deal with threats of rape, they see no alternatives to it, and they don't have a way of organizing mass efforts against rape. Moreover, many Africans profit through the system which condones or encourages rape - they have even less of a reason to change the social order.

Efforts to help individual women (as opposed to addressing social change) may seem like small measures, but they're actually very important. As timzilla mentioned, the "bandages" and "bus tickets" we send to Congo aren't one-time use, they're monies which are used to train African medical personal and support hospitals. Sending a hundred bucks to the Congo isn't paying for a hundred women to be treated, it's paying for doctors or equipment who will help thousands of Congolese in their lifetime.

"...they've befriended Sandee, a hot, macha, snappy grifter"

Was this supposed to be "macho"?

Because it turns out there's a character in Chrono Cross named Macha who fights enemies with frying pans and butt slams...