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Julia Long on Vine on 5 discussing statue of / about Mary Wollstonecraft

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stumbledin · 13/11/2020 14:37

Someone let me know that Julia Long was invited to comment on the statue of Mary Wollstonecraft on the JV show. Managed to see most of it on the +1 channel where she sent all the women guests into gales of laughter talking about not statues of men with their willies out!

I cant see any clips of this bit of the show yet, but maybe available later.

Not only JL but the statue with THE t-shirt on!

www.facebook.com/JeremyVineOn5/photos/a.343689200421/10164836171555422/?type=3&theater

twitter.com/JeremyVineOn5/status/1327161347164008449

Keep an eye on My5?

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NancyDrawed · 13/11/2020 15:14

Quite pleased to see that Dr Sarah Jarvis agreed with JL.

As for the nudity = timeless. Why shouldn't a statue celebrating an inspritional woman from the 18th century depict her in such a way as to make that clear?

Datun · 13/11/2020 15:09

Julia is excellent. She can really think on her feet and talks fast.

And the other woman, totally missing the point. It's not about the female form. Let's have statues celebrating the female form. The actual female form. Not an idealised facsimile of what most women are.

This is a statue representing a woman who believed in education for women. That it would address the imbalance between the sexes. So why is she up there with her tits out?

What is the actual point?

And don't get me started on why we should love it because the artist is sad and it was her dream, or fantasy or whatever. The ego of that.

calllaaalllaaammma · 13/11/2020 15:05

Great to see this get on National TV.
And the statue wearing an 'women-adult human t-shirt'.

RedDogsBeg · 13/11/2020 15:03

I hope Julia is right and that it doesn't stay up for long, it's an absolute travesty reducing Mary Wollstonecraft to an amorphous blob, it signifies absolutely nothing about her or her legacy.

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stumbledin · 13/11/2020 14:55

Thanks for the link - just came to post it!

(I assume its the same looks very different url)

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MindTheMinotaur · 13/11/2020 14:53

Go Julia.

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