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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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HecatesCats · 11/11/2020 12:29

@Escapeplanning

Pink News will have to write 475 articles about Mary. It will be draped in the trans flag. Naked women statues will suddenly become the most important thing a trans ally can do. Every one laughing at it will be a *erf.
Also bad feminists = prudes. I'm waiting for them to misinterpret MW's affair and views on sex to conclude that she was a porn loving Lib fem who'd freaking love to be immortalised as a miniature silver Barbie doll with a protruding bush.
oneglassandpuzzled · 11/11/2020 12:29

Where are the books? Or the quill? She was a woman of words.

Escapeplanning · 11/11/2020 12:26

Such great photos.

Statue to honour Wollstonecraft
Escapeplanning · 11/11/2020 12:21

In case it's removed from the Metro.

Statue to honour Wollstonecraft
Butterer · 11/11/2020 12:14

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Escapeplanning · 11/11/2020 12:14

Pink News will have to write 475 articles about Mary. It will be draped in the trans flag. Naked women statues will suddenly become the most important thing a trans ally can do. Every one laughing at it will be a *erf.

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Escapeplanning · 11/11/2020 12:11

Reuters picture agency are now using the pictures of Julia Long and the adult human female t shirt to promote the story about the statue. It's in the Metro

That's going to cause an enormous rage meltdown.

Well done ✅

ArcheryAnnie · 11/11/2020 12:10

@RoyalCorgi

The tiny size of the statue makes me wonder whether this was some kind of Spinal Tap-style cockup, where she was given the measurements in inches rather than feet.
OMG this makes so much sense!
ColdCottage · 11/11/2020 12:08

I saw this on the news last night. I don't get why she is nude. I have no problems with nudes but felt for this it was inappropriate.

ChattyLion · 11/11/2020 12:07

Cwenryth oh I didn’t know about Lapper’s son passing away. That’s awful. I am so sad for her. For them both. The sculpture was fantastic, I remember going to see it on the fourth plinth.

littlbrowndog · 11/11/2020 12:03

This is an awesome statue or statues or sculptures. Not sure which is right. 🙃

Statue to honour Wollstonecraft
scentedgeranium · 11/11/2020 12:01

I have an artist friend who has tried defending it to me, saying Maggie Hambling always gets a lot of flack. I told her she deserved it in this case!

Malahaha · 11/11/2020 11:59

Grin Someone on Facebook has described it as
a penis ejaculating a Barbie doll.

sawdustformypony · 11/11/2020 11:56

£143K for that ?. Guess every one can just thank their own personal deity that there were no blokes (Adult Male Humans) involved in all this sculpt-shambles.

Nomnomarrgh · 11/11/2020 11:54

Thank you to the resisters

AcornAutumn · 11/11/2020 11:35

Mala “ So much of art these days is about the ego of the artist. I've noticed this for a long time. And imo it makes for inferior art.”

This.

AcornAutumn · 11/11/2020 11:34

@Cwenthryth

If I'd donated to the fund, I'd be most unimpressed. I did, and I am most unimpressed. Fucking fuming actually.
Oh no! I’d be seeking any way possible to get money back. It’s an offensive piss take, not a tribute.
Connieston · 11/11/2020 11:24

Agreed. That peculiar bush is following me around the room. It's like a small mammal is nestling there Grin

Malahaha · 11/11/2020 11:22

@FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack

That's such a disappointment.

I read a quote from the artist pouring scorn on the idea of Victorian statues of men on a plinth. Those statues are all about the men and not the artist though, this is more of a giant ego trip for the artist than anything relevant to Mary Wollstonecraft or her life.

So much of art these days is about the ego of the artist. I've noticed this for a long time. And imo it makes for inferior art. Many of the great masters of the past, whether complsers, visual artists, architects, created their work for the glory of God. Even if you don't believe in God, the idea behind it is of Art being a creative impulse bigger than your own tine ego -- something that will live on.
fatblackcatspaw · 11/11/2020 11:15

@Cwenthryth

If I'd donated to the fund, I'd be most unimpressed. I did, and I am most unimpressed. Fucking fuming actually.
have you contacted the organisers?
RoyalCorgi · 11/11/2020 11:14

The tiny size of the statue makes me wonder whether this was some kind of Spinal Tap-style cockup, where she was given the measurements in inches rather than feet.

Malahaha · 11/11/2020 11:09

@TinselAngel

Why does her vulva look like a monkey's bum? (That's a sentence I've never typed before).
Yes, thank you. Or as if there is a balloon of froth coming out of it?
PurpleHoodie · 11/11/2020 11:01

Oh, yes malahaha.

Malahaha · 11/11/2020 10:58

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.