Radio Dial Rule

Punk af 🤘

She is awesome
- One of my heros

If you're not uncomfortable, I'm not being radical enough

Good art seeks to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable
Just annoying
- At this stage, I hope you're annoyed. I'm angry as hell, and I have no time for bottom feeders that can't look up. You should turn your annoyance into anger and fear, because the truth is, everyone should feel that way. Don't worry though; when fascism fucks up your life, I won't even bother saying "told you so."
- If you're the kind of person who thinks feminism is annoying, then you deserve to be annoyed. It wouldn't upset you if you were cooler.

Turn it up to 11

For an extra $1,000 I'll make you one that goes to 12
- Get back on the transporter terminal, O'Brian.

Hot take (apparently): Women deserve to be taken seriously.

“RAGING FEMINIST” (apparently)
- Hysterical.

It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here?
What better time than now?

Lights out
Guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up

I just had a flashback to playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater after school

I want that guitar pedal

It's got to be a boost or an overdrive right?
- Nah, it's a tone knob
- Fuzz maybe.
You can get kits online for pretty cheap, and probably make something like this yourself if you really wanted to. Just get a kit to make a fuzz pedal or overdrive, and do some custom modifications to the enclosure.

Isn't art about uh... Expressing yourself?

Ice Cream (1964)
Evelyne Axell
Banned on Facebook

Rage like California wildfire.

And here I thought that old "SFW porn gif" reddit sub was an original idea...

That's actually a pretty sick piece of art though.

"Turn down for what"

That is a great piece of art

It looks like this dial can go a little beyond the current setting. Give it a try!

I see this as malicious compliance, and I love it.

Did she dial down the Feminism? If she didn't I wouldn't call it compliance since she didn't actually do that.
Perhaps it's time to reacquaint yourself with the definition of "compliance", lol.

This was not any kind of compliance.

Which side is down and which is up?

Well, firstly, art teachers are not exactly known for their anti-feminism. Safe money is on her just being insufferable, especially given the fact that she deliberately left out what she said/did that got that response from the teacher, lol (or it's literally made up and she just made up the conflict in order to make herself the hero in a little tale).

Secondly, this is objectively a moronic response visually. Not only is it a dial (which implicitly supports the teacher's premise), but it is plainly obvious that there is a LOT of room on that dial between the two settings--this implicitly contradicts the apparent intention to communicate those two 'settings' as a binary proposition. Would have made much more sense to display it as a switch, a device that actually has only two binary positions.

While I agree with you on some of the above, I disagree with your choice to insult both the artist (“insufferable”) and the art (“moronic.”) It really weakens your point when you throw ad hominems into your argument. Your valid criticisms become clouded by an apparent bias, leading people to take your point less seriously.
- I didn't insult the artist, I made an educated guess about details of the interaction based on the clearly-deliberately-omitted information.
  
  I also didn't insult the art, I insulted the decision made in creating it, as it objectively (and I went into detail as to how) does the literal opposite of what it's intended to do, for no other reason than a lack of thinking things through even slightly.
On the other hand, it shows that every step on the dial is a step towards being complicit in their own dehumanization. The teacher’s request seems to suggest that those are separate axes, whereas OP obviously does not think so.
If the post is honest, this is an fine response. I'm always a little skeptical of ragebait posts, but I've had plenty of interactions with educators who run counter to what you would assume of their profession.
- That's why I made my educated guess based not only on that's typical of a member of that profession, but that combined with the deliberate omission of what led up to the teacher's comment.
  
  Those two factors together point much more strongly toward my guess than either of them would individually.
You've never used a dial with only two settings before? Also, using a dial because the art teacher said to dial down? "Hey OP, switch down the feminism hur hur"

"raging feminism" often actually causes increased misogyny. This dial is the perfect metaphor, because somewhere in the middle is "staunch advocacy" that actually creates progress

That nice girl feminism got us to lose abortion rights. I'm in the vengeance stage whether you like it or not.
- Americans lost abortion rights because of the piss-weak Democratic party relying on a shaky legal foundation to keep them in place rather than legislating it themselves at any of the times they controlled the Senate, House, and White House under Carter, Clinton, Obama, or Biden. All of whome had a period where that was the case. It's not feminists of any sort that are to blame.
“raging feminism” often actually causes increased misogyny

Are you fucking high?!
- "you spoke mean and hurt my feelings, that's why I voted for Hitler. It's your fault."
- Radical, illogical levels of misogyny are not an altered state of consciousness. Evil is mundane.
- Nope, I'm very lucid. If you haven't seen people's reaction to "raging feminism" then you haven't been paying attention. Most people who are already on your side will give you a "yassss gurl", but most people who aren't already on your side will react by moving in the opposite direction.
  
  To reiterate, i specifically said that the "doing nothing" side of the dial is wrong too. Be a strong advocate, but don't try to "burn it all down", because that'll cause the opposite effect of what you're trying to achieve
It really doesn't. But it does make raging misogynists pissy and insecure.
The point of the dial is there is no middle ground. You either take it quietly or you're a troublemaker.
- I don't mean to diminish the larger point you're making about feminism not having middle ground, but from an interface design perspective, a dial very much implies a continuum of settings. When there isn't middle ground, the interface should be a toggle switch instead.
  
  Of course this is art, not a real device, so obviously a dial is appropriate because it's a response to being told to "dial down," not "switch off."
  
  (I almost feel like there could've been something different about the way the dial was depicted -- maybe with a range with "raging feminist" next to "complicit" and something more extreme above it, or maybe indeed using a toggle instead of a dial -- in order to emphasize that "raging feminist" already is as "dialed down" as you could reasonably ask for, but such UI realism would probably just clutter up the design without improving the message. As art, I think the artist got it right as-is.)
- Except there is a middle ground between letting yourself be victimized, and being a militant pain in the ass. Plenty of it.
  
  Only those wanting to justify being empathy-free pains in the ass try to create this false dichotomy.
  
  You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
This comes off weird. Especially when in context to the post.
I fully agree. This applies not only to feminism but in general - if you want to convince people about something, you need to plan your approach, what to say, know what works on people etc. You cannot just rage like crazy because there's a high chance you just create a counter reaction.

F.e. I'd say we can all agree that gay rights are the right thing. But if you come to some conservative village, start shouting at everyone, being super aggresive and rage like a maniac, I'd bet that the only thing you achieve is that you'll be labeled as "that crazy person"

I'm really surprised of the responses to this comment, I find this to be a common sense
- I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
  
  Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
  
  -Martin Luther King Jr
  
  Got a lot of the same vibes, really
- You're right if the goal is to convince someone of something. But why is it the job of the gay person to talk to the conservative village in "the right way" to justify their existence?
  
  More generally, why is it always the oppressed who have to try to rationalize and normalize themselves for a chance at being accepted in what is also their society?
  
  I have no room to speak since I'm not fighting any of those fights, but even I get infuriated thinking about people needing to talk rationally about why they should be accepted.
- I’m really surprised of the responses to this comment, I find this to be a common sense
  
  The closer a person and the people they care about get to the chopping block the less common sense it seems.
- The point of art is not necessarily to convince. What if her point is to call for action, to nurture debate or to get attention to something that doesn't get space in people's minds. It's a piece of art, not a PhD thesis.
- actually it's been pretty well shown that radical annoying people help move the overton window so the gentle advocates seem more palatable and reasonable
  
  this is the same principle that fascists use to normalize oppression.