"Complaint" and project connection

Sejin Kim

Professor. Cacoilo

Activist, Interlop Pranksters

April 10, 2019

"Complaint" and project connection

            The Guerrilla Girls and the Yes Men are the activist who are against the patriarchy in our society. The Guerrilla Girls are standing up against sexism and the Yes Men are standing up against capitalism in our society. My major is business, and my semester project is going to focus on how unfair females are being treated in the business field or any other area in our society. The Guerrilla Girls and the Yes Men was a great example that has already happened and is still ongoing. Through these activists, I was greatly inspired for my semester project.

Guerrilla Girls Poster

            I could say that the Guerrilla Girls inspired me the most for my semester project. The Guerrilla Girls are an ongoing female activist group in the United States. They have made a lot of different types of posters that show they are against a lot of discrimination that women face in our society. One of the poster that the Guerrilla Girls published was about the wage gap between males and females. In the United States of America, women earn only two-thirds of what men earn in the same job. According to the Guerrilla Girls, “Women have never gained economic equality by just working hard and being good girls”. (39) Women have been discriminated or denigrated with their work all over the history. Women have been treated as an object of men’s property, have been ignored or have had their ideas stolen by men. Every human being deserves equal rights without any kind of discrimination.

Yes Men Prankster Activism

            The Yes Men is the male activist group who are against capitalism and the people who have power. My semester project is not so similar to the Yes Men, however, I could still relate my project to the Yes Men. Capitalism is the social struggle with the class which is divided by people’s wealth. Wealthy people will get better opportunities for studying and earning money and the poor will stay poor. The Yes Men wanted to humiliate the people who have power and wealth by acting out like them. According to an interview about the Yes Men, “We hope that people who see this stuff will be as shocked and outraged as we were when we experienced it ourselves”. Capitalism also includes sexism as well, such as people who have power and money in our society are mainly men.

An activists’ goal is influencing other people by telling and sharing regarding what that activist thinks or has gone through. My semester project will be a poster that will influence others to face the facts of the discrimination that women face in our society like the Guerrilla Girls. Women have had to fight many battles to come as far as they are now and it is time for everyone all over the globe to realize that humans are humans and women deserve to be heard. I hope to prevent having this dilemma being pushed aside and to have people think once more about how important equality is through my complaint.

Work Cited

Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls. (1995). Harper Perennial.

Sholette, G., & Thompson, N. (2004). The Interventionists: User’s Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life;. North Adams, MA: MASS MoCA.