Statue to honour Wollstonecraft

I'm just about to read this....Janice Turner in the Times...

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-feminist-role-model-whos-beach-body-ready-pz25h5tft?shareToken=28e021132d715e3d9ab161311a248eba

Thank you annasgirl

I'm still grumpy about it too.

I suppose the silver (ha ha) lining of all this is that Mary Wollstonecroft is getting a whole lot more exposure coverage publicity and that she the person and her works will reach more new readers than might have occurred otherwise.

I’m still fuming about this, days later.

Write all the foundational feminist polemics you want, ladies. You’re still tits and minge on a plinth in the end. It’s like something an MRA would do.

Love the sketch of Mary’s reaction though I think she’d have sworn a bit more, though.

From the Daily Mail

Woman - adult human female' is a message used by some feminists to distinguish between women who are born female, and trans women.

How many more unaware women will read that statement and think... but...but... - I am woman because I am female - shit - I’m a feminist!

JL

• It's the Daily Mail, but omg, SUNLIGHT! The article is about the T-shirt protest, not about the statue itself, and tells it like it is.*

It's got quite a bit about the statue too, and also about Wollstonecraft. From a quick look at the comments (there are lots) many of them are good!

Hambling's quote "She told the Evening Standard: 'She's everywoman and clothes would have restricted her. Statues in historic costume look like they belong to history because of their clothes. It's crucial that she is 'now'. "

How the hell is a naked ideal woman 'now'? if the figure had been clothed in some sort of non-period clothing it would have been much clearer it was not meant to be 'of' MW.

Why were there only two choices?

I don't understand how this stuff works, but there must be lots of artists and aspiring artists who would kill for the opportunity to create something like this.

I hate that DM article though... talking about “T**F” as if it’s something organised and self-proclaimed, not a misleading slur applied by others...

and the sneering, homophobic tone towards Dr Long like she’s some kind of fringe loony.

*a doll-sized statue of Charles Dickens with washboard abs and his todger out.

I like this idea. Lots of nude male figures - Adam Smith in a mankini. David Hume in a cheeky turban and nothing else. Churchill with his famous cigar out.*

Nelson’s column

'Radical lesbian activist' COVERS UP new sculpture celebrating 'mother of feminism' Mary Wollstonecraft after critics slammed artist for reducing icon to a 'naked silver Barbie doll'

Now there's a headline! Thanks for sharing Malahaha.

lots of so many better depictions of women. I have to add my favourite, Walking Mary, by Elizabeth Frink, in Salisbury Cathedral Close.
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So many reasons to love it. She's an old, unidealized, women. But active - striding towards the viewer. Her left hand is a different colour, because so many people touch it. Also, she's life-size, at ground level. So viewing her is a very intimate experience.

The more I look at the blob - the more I think it looks like a male body (with slight boobage). What was she (the artist) thinking? Was she paying homage to the medieval paintings of naked ‘women’ where the models were obviously men?

It's the Daily Mail, but omg, SUNLIGHT!
The article is about the T-shirt protest, not about the statue itself, and tells it like it is.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8934753/Sculpture-Mary-Wollstonecraft-slammed-reducing-campaigner-naked-silver-Barbie-doll.html?fbclid=IwAR0LMxQf1mX3j06MqEUDXhUbe9mLpWvY6DfGiSVMa-55w4N5_TztEzLRJeI

Can't fit this photo tweet on:

"One more point: for me this is a huge lesson in engaging with what’s going on in the community. I knew this statue was coming, was pleased, wanted it but I was also busy and knew ‘other people’ were campaigning for it. So, didn’t bother getting involved. Obviously, now wish I had"

Breasts are still too pointy though.

I'd love to know what Jenny Savile would have done.,

Thread explaining the choice.

Definitely confusion over what choice was the "right" choice and i suspect there would have been criticism either way:

(I prefer the maquette.)

Maybe this was Maggie's plan all along ...

Love the fact there's no comment on the tee or dresser in the write up!

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mary-wollstonecraft-sculpture-covered-clothes-feminism-b65266.html

Oh dear Shon Faye doesn't approve of the t-shirt thing, slap on the wrist British ladies, you are doing feminism wrong...

Women should write this into their wills, refusing permission to ever be commemorated, by/with/for/using any preposition or declension, in the nip.

I'm thinking of getting it tattooed on somewhere, just in case I become a late bloomer and do something impressive before I snuff it.