is it just me, er....?!

I saw this huge internally-lit poster at the Las Vegas airport. It's a photo of an indigenous woman, with these words written underneath.

It's masquerading as an I-am-woman-hear-me-roar sort of thing, but I found it offensive. It gives the impression that women are just hanging out, you know, lying around in the woods or something, a mass of potential energy, undiscovered, unused. (And by whom?!) -As if every woman I know doesn't already do more than her share of the work of Life.

It also equates us with, well, those inanimate things traditionally expoited by humans. I suppose you could say that being compared to wind and trees and rivers isn't all that bad, but what is it that humans generally do with our natural resources? We use them up and abuse them. What? The Amazon's all gone? No more petroleum? Well, hell, we've got a bunch of women here, let's see what they can do for us.

Grrr.