That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 12, 2018

Fortunately women shaming dropped out of favor long before dog shaming became a thing.

SHAME for holding up Starbucks line.

If you can read this, you’re way too close!

Human trafficking. Not funny then. Not funny now.

Will work for Clothes!!!

Sorry Steve, but this one’s in pretty poor taste.

No way to make this funny…

The staged sit-in against human trafficking got the attention it wanted by being controversial .

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/398568635745124417/?lp=true

I struggled to find a wisecrack until Irealized the problem: this is fundamentally horrible. This is a genuine masterpiece BECAUSE of the message it conveys. Thanks for calling it to our attention,Steve, but you can do better.

No matter what she tried, Helen couldn’t get her carpet to fly.

#MeToo

Perhaps a tad tasteless but very thought provoking and enlightening. Now if we could just get people as incensed about human trafficking as they are about the border issues something could be done.

A Slave for Sale: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Una_esclava_en_venta_Jos%C3%A9_Jim%C3%A9nez_Aranda.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting, along with a Description (longer at its Notes link).

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O131839/washerwomen-disputing-oil-painting-jimenez-aranda-jose/ 

https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Jose.Jimenez.Aranda 

http://drawingacademy.com/jose-jimenez-aranda-1 

http://drawingacademy.com/jose-jimenez-aranda-2 

http://drawingacademy.com/jose-jimenez-aranda-part-3 

https://www.museodelprado.es/aprende/enciclopedia/voz/jimenez-aranda-jose/95205715-1109-4642-adbd-969d2ae6198a 

all have info about this artist (the last in Spanish; again, Chrome can automatically translate), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1994 (July 11, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

No comment needed. I wonder what was going thru the artist’s mind while painting this. Hopefully, he did NOT have a true-to-life model!

Slavery is still happening…… it’s not getting the publicity that it should.

Soon at a massage parlor near you (not funny and very true).

“Dear Mr. Neeson,

We had no idea this was your daughter, please don’t kill us. Sorry we can’t find her clothes.

Sincerely, the kidnapers."

JUST A NOTE TO THE HARAM MASTER, DON’T LET THIS ONE COME TILL SHE HAD MY BABY. AND GIVE HER SOME CLOTHES.

⇧ your comments are definitely “haram”…

I have no problem with this. Yes, slavery was and is horrible. Pretending it didn’t/doesn’t exist isn’t going to change that fact. Finding humor in any situation does not help or hurt the situation. Should Mr. Melcher not use any portraits of women, because they were treated as property in the past (and probably still in the present)? Or pictures with soldiers because war is terrible? These pictures were made in the times they represented, and history is what it is. Pretending it wasn’t or trying to clean it up doesn’t change a single fact.

“Yeah, I could have gotten a tattoo instead, but I’m not sure I’ll want it forever, y’know?”

I went looking for what’s written there and it’s “Rose, 18 years-old, 800 coins”.How far have we come and how far we are from eradicating these types of behaviors.And if we’re not vigilant we risk going back there.