There is no discrepancy. Look at the painting Two Cultures , women don't go around carrying bowls of fruit on their head any more. One device that I have used a lot hitherto has been the faceless figure and sometimes I have been overly explicit in a cartoon-like way, indicating women by giving them breasts and a dress and men by making their limbs thicker and more like male anatomy. You're being too simplistic. My plan is much grander and it's not just the paintings, it's also the sculptures and the hype as you say.
Panic art is perfectly reflexive.
Paintings offer up a critique of painting. Collectors who purchase the work are laughed at in the work. The interview is the art of Mark Kostabi as both advertiser and creator, as both affirmation and condemnation. Sixty Minutes becomes a T.V. commercial. The painting becomes the screen for the projection of the art.