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Statue to honour Wollstonecraft

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MedusasBadHairDay · 10/11/2020 01:08

www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/mary-wollstonecraft-finally-honoured-with-statue-after-200-years

It's a naked woman..

Currently reading A Vindication of the Rights of Woman for an OU course, and - unless the tone changes dramatically in the second half of it - I'm not seeing how an idealised nude is the right statue to convey anything about her?

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FannyCann · 12/11/2020 04:14

I read that as a stopped cock Grin before I opened the image to see who had posted it. GrinGrinGrin

DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 12/11/2020 02:29

A stopped clock and all that.

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DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 12/11/2020 02:00

This is delightful.

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Butterer · 11/11/2020 23:47

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yaboo · 11/11/2020 23:39

haha, not just me, then...

yaboo · 11/11/2020 23:39

It's a shite statue. Is it just me, or does the statue look like she's wearing a merkin? Or maybe smuggling barmcakes? Is a protruding pudenda 'IN', this season? So many thoughts...

Melroses · 11/11/2020 22:28

Beehive hair do?

Cailleach1 · 11/11/2020 22:19

@Malahaha

Haven't read the whole thread but am I the only one to think that the statue's pubes look a little -- well, knobbish? Like a blob planted there?

I've never seen a naked women with such um bulky pubes. Especially so in this full frontal image. twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/1326318289488732160

Now going back to page 4 to catch up.

Maybe she is supposed to be wearing a 'full bodied' merkin? Voluminous like American 'big hair'. No clothes, but a hairy pubic wig.
Escapeplanning · 11/11/2020 21:57

I keep hearing silver tits as a line from Gavin and Stacey.

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Abhannmor · 11/11/2020 21:37

Is that capacious bush a sop to the trans movement?

HecatesCats · 11/11/2020 20:56

Love that littl and the mothers in Skopje user. Women who look like women shock!

littlbrowndog · 11/11/2020 20:53

This is a statue of strong women

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HecatesCats · 11/11/2020 20:45

@anon444877

I was thinking a statue of Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley together would've been a nice way to go - love the Skopje statues.
I'd love to see that in addition to a more fitting tribute to MW.
FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack · 11/11/2020 20:43

WeAreFromThePlanetDuplo GrinGrin

anon444877 · 11/11/2020 20:41

I was thinking a statue of Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley together would've been a nice way to go - love the Skopje statues.

littlbrowndog · 11/11/2020 20:19

That is lovel6 user. So rings so many bells with me feeding a baby

Silver tits doesn’t at all

littlbrowndog · 11/11/2020 20:18

Silver tits. 💪💪💪💪💪

FannyCann · 11/11/2020 20:12

That's a beautiful monument User.

In these days when women are being reduced to birthing bodies/people and the word mother is being erased it is very moving to see such a beautiful depiction.

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 11/11/2020 20:08

Are we dressing dollies now? Maybe we can get a range of cut out clothes.

JamieLeeCurtains · 11/11/2020 20:04

Well, it's certainly gone interactive.

user115632569541 · 11/11/2020 19:59

I like the Boudicca statue.

This thread has reminded me of this monument in Skopje. Being a mother is not something we really seem to value in our culture, at least not enough to create grand statuary in a key location.

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JamieLeeCurtains · 11/11/2020 19:29

@PlanDeRaccordement

I agree it’s a strange choice to commemorate Mary Wollstonecraft. It looks rather like a Classical Venus statue rising out of the sea at her birth. I have no objections to nudity in statues see that often with Greek goddesses and such. But to me this is like the sculptor already had this statue in her garage unsold, and decided to write up some lame explanation to get it sold as Mary Wollstonecraft. I’d much rather have seen her depicted like a Lady Liberty...you know fully dressed, flag held high, leading her troops. The Fawcett statue is terrible. It looks like a woman hanging out the sheets to dry.
I'm actually liking this theory.
JamieLeeCurtains · 11/11/2020 19:27

[quote Imnobody4]#MaryWollstonecraft seeing her statue for the first time t.co/nsSVUbNG4z[/quote]
I agree this is wonderful. Very short sketch, by Susan Harrison.

Really worth a watch.

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