AIBU to think woman's spread legs on gates in Festival Park Glasgow is disturbing?

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AIBU to think that installing a woman's spread legs on gates in Festival Park Glasgow is disturbing? "the gate of Assumption"

Presumably approved by Glasgow City Council. Someone on twitter says they've done a Freedom of Information request
twitter.com/lorcaat/status/1426981748894797831

Ltd Ink Corporations ‘Gateway to Govan-The Safari of Sorts, Is a series of £100 micro commissions, focused on site specific contemporary artworks. Extending beyond the parameters of our Govan headquarters, this interactive art-safari begins on the facade of our warehouse and extends to the revitalised Clyde waterfront. The walk features works by a collection of artists
ltdinkcorporation.com/Gateway-to-Govan-The-Safari-of-Sorts

Art is often meant to be disturbing

Misogynist and poorly painted.

True art is often meant to be disturbing, make you think and question. Like the Banksy's social media art pieces are shocking, sad, disturbing and make you think about society today - getting to the soul of what's happening in the world. But spread legs on a park gate.... in a park where girls have been attacked

Hahahaha what the hell is that?! What a bizarre choice for the front gate.

When white men take decisions for all of us, we end up with garbage like this.
I bet you, there was no woman involved in the decision making of this excremental abomination. Wtaf!

Misogynist and very very poor taste.
Don’t care if it’s art.
It’s degrading and disgusting.

Unbelievable!

I hope it's quickly removed.

@Henrysmycat

When white men take decisions for all of us, we end up with garbage like this. I bet you, there was no woman involved in the decision making of this excremental abomination. Wtaf!

colour of the men/women involved in such a poor piece of 'art' is absolutely irrelevant. did you forget to include 'old'

Appalling. If I lived locally I'd be complaining

Gosh, that's ugly! And offensive. Out of proportion. Viewing women as a hole, again.

It's revolting. And it's badly drawn, shit art. It doesn't challenge anything, it confirms misogyny.

My understanding is that the artist of the legs is female and had the art already. i.e. she didn't decide to install the legs on opening gates, Ltd Ink Corporation did. (Glasgow City Council approved? - we'll see)

Yuck. Very poor taste, particularly if women have been assaulted in that park. I hope it is removed by the end of the day.

YANBU OP

That's not Art. Very few 'things' (as I don't know what to call them really) today are.

The use of the word 'micro' installations and the fact that they commissioned and paid 'international' artists rather than Scottish ones probably gives us a clue as to what/who could be behind all this. It seems like they intend to make a powerful statement, yes, a frightening one

What do the colourful 'stickers' say?

It gives Completely the wrong message, subliminally to children, teens and anyone using that park.

Im surprised there aren't protests

That’s horrible, I would be out at midnight with my spray paint. Misogynist shit! Don’t care if artist was a woman, some “man” thought putting it there was funny!

Horrible. I hope it gets removed.

Awful

This is the kind of casual misogyny that women have to put up with throughout their lives. It’s porn culture and a cheap joke at our expense.
I know that art should make you think but it just makes me think of sad incels in their bedrooms who hate women.

I don't object to edgy art but there is a time and a place for it and a park isn't it.

Awful.

Casual misogyny at it’s worst.

Not suitable for a park

This isn’t art, it’s grim. Very grim and the entirely unacceptable face of excessive liberalism.

Festival Park is in in the middle of a unionist area (so the less nice parts of Glasgow) and known to be mostly inhabited by drug dealers and sex workers. I am not too far away from it and the gates fit in with the feeling of the park - they may well have been intended as a positive comment on the sex workers in the park. Not everyone's taste but not the end of the world.

Most locals won't be offended by this but they just built a 'naice' new (overpriced) complex next to the park - will be interesting to see what the newcomers are next upset by.

For me it’s not the legs themselves but the placement of the legs on gates, hole central , push open and go inside. As a parent I wonder what message this public artwork is telling our impressionable girls and boys. What sort of respectful group teen conversations does this image prompt? Placed elsewhere, say inside a pub, I would feel quite differently but location is everything.