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I can't quite believe this

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Imnobody4 · 16/08/2021 10:11

A design for park gates in Scotland.
Artist asks are they female? twitter.com/defiaye/status/1426950743840395267?s=19

What on earth is going on in the heads of these post mod women.

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PrincessNutella · 18/08/2021 21:10

What an embarrassment.

NewlyGranny · 17/08/2021 09:50

Those gates look even more graphically disturbing when closed. Like something an adolescent boy would scrawl on a school toilet wall. 🤮

Waitwhat23 · 17/08/2021 09:17

There was an 18 year old teenager raped in that park in February this year. 7 months ago. And yet, this is seen as acceptable?

JoodyBlue · 17/08/2021 09:12

I look at that and I find it directly threatening. I am appalled by it. I can't see how any woman would not be. It is offensive beyond measure. And as a teenage girl looking at that I am not sure I would have coped. It is hateful, disgusting and misogynistic imagery. No words around it will change the impact.

Forgotthebins · 17/08/2021 08:57

I wouldn’t care if the legs were male or female, it’s totally inappropriate for a park. Imagine if the gates got stuck and you had to force them open. I just would rather not go to the park than engage with that symbolism. But maybe that’s the subconscious goal: more women deterred from going out in public space.

picklemewalnuts · 16/08/2021 19:56

It was originally part of a different installation which definitely had challenging ideas about whether the legs were male or female- it was about isolating symbols from their usual context to see whether the meaning changed.

In this context, it's pants, and the suggestion it's not necessarily female is irrelevant, because in this context they clearly are. (Although I immediately felt the proportions were 'off' for female legs and feet in stilettos!)

KittenKong · 16/08/2021 19:49

I’ve seen better GCSE art projects.

toomanytrees · 16/08/2021 18:49

This is an example of "post skill" art. Art students are being taught that their purpose is to make a "statement". The skill of execution is secondary. Many of these so called artists have nothing interesting to say and if they do, they don't have the skill to present it in an interesting and intriguing way. Hence we get things like these gates.

KittenKong · 16/08/2021 18:26

I hope the find out who authorised this. It wasn’t promoted a ‘guerilla art’.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 16/08/2021 16:40

Agree that it's good that they've been taken down but how many people must have been involved in agreeing to put them there in the first place.
It just goes to show how extensive the "women as fu** holes" porn ideology has become with so many proponents of it evidently working in local and national government.

Noluthando · 16/08/2021 16:33

I'm glad they are being taken down. I think someone would have ripped them down anyway.

BettyBakesBuns · 16/08/2021 16:31

Good that's it's been removed, if it has, but who - WHO - in their right mind would have thought that was acceptable in a public park?!! What with this and the dildo rainbow monkey at the children's library event the other week you have to question the motives of those making these decisions. Are they trying to provoke, do they have an agenda to degrade women and sexualise children or are they just really clueless?

Gothichouse40 · 16/08/2021 16:27

Honest to goodness, who thought this was a good idea? I hope it is getting removed and soon.

Greystray · 16/08/2021 16:24

"the work"? It looks like an end of year 6th form prank.

Where is the bar for being an artist these days?

PickAChew · 16/08/2021 16:20

The only message I'm getting is tacky AF

ToesAndFingersCrossed · 16/08/2021 16:18

I await with bated breath for the “woke” narrative to be something along the lines of “horrible middle class white feminists campaign to remove immigrant’s work from local park”. Everything’s our fault.

ZealAndArdour · 16/08/2021 15:55

“Giving the area a feminine vibe”. Ahh

FFS.

FreeBritnee · 16/08/2021 15:55

You can bullshit anything into sounding reasonable. Particularly when it comes to ‘art’.

Hopeisallineed · 16/08/2021 15:53

It’s offensive and shit. It’s a double whammy.

BuffysBigSister · 16/08/2021 15:51

@PinniGig

It's not so much that it's offensive but that it's so shit. Not just your average shit this is Blackpool postcard tacky ass kinda shit and someone came up with that idea and someone else agreed.

Vast, unprecedented levels of sheer shit going on here.

Exactly - I have seen some awful modern art but this doesn't even count as art. The legs seem to have been removed now and replaced with some lovely suffragette ribbons
PinniGig · 16/08/2021 14:53

It's not so much that it's offensive but that it's so shit. Not just your average shit this is Blackpool postcard tacky ass kinda shit and someone came up with that idea and someone else agreed.

Vast, unprecedented levels of sheer shit going on here.

NewlyGranny · 16/08/2021 14:44

Well that's good news, Big Sister, but how much council taxpayers' money has been wasted, I wonder?

And when are the grownups going to be back in the building?!

BuffysBigSister · 16/08/2021 13:04

The installation has been removed or is being removed today according to a local councillor.

mollythemeerkat · 16/08/2021 12:39

Someone on the other thread suggested it was appropriate because the park is a place where some prostitutes meet their clients!

ditalini · 16/08/2021 12:33

I'm trying to think of a way in which it's not shit.

In concept? Shit.
In execution? Shit.

It looks like a shitty prop from a drag club or amateur theatre production.