> On the first level: there absolutely are women painters, photographers and artists, throughout history. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun almost exclusively painted women and was a large influence on the depictions of women throughout the remainder of the 18th, the 19th and even 20th century.
If you had to guess, what do you think the ratio is of men to women, in terms of well known artists in those time periods?
> On the second level: outside observation is a valid truth, what one person sees is not the same as that person themselves sees.
No one is denying that. The premise here is that other perspectives, or valid truths, were not seen because the observers were almost always men. Even passive observing can introduce biases, which is why we have things like double blind trials.
Do you not believe it's interesting to try and imagine what art might look like from different perspectives?