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

[FindTheTruth]

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

That's disgusting. It's not 'thought provoking', it's not funny, it's misogyny in plain sight.

red light district club doors in Hamburg have spread legs too

So, a mere copycat. Great! How much have we paid for this?

That is absolutely horrible

And it definitely won't be "making people think" "challenging our preconceptions" etc.

Really grim thing to do.

I don't like it. I think it's very poor taste. Art you say? No.

It’s awful. Not art, it’s a tacky joke.

A woman was raped that park in 2018.

Absolutely disgusting. Makes me so angry.

We should all go and hang teeny tiny little sad-faced penises off tree branches in the same park.

Disturbing and offensive.

That is appalling.

If they’d put the version of this artwork with flat shoes on the gate - the one where your ‘assumption’ is male, then that would have been interesting.

Really, only one conclusion to make from this, no thought required. How do you explain what this means to children? It is disgusting I often have conversations with my daughter (13) about the difficulty we face being female. Still viewed like this I can't believe it's allowed.

That's grim - wtf were they thinking? I wonder if Rakel has any thoughts about her art being used in this context, or whether she's just delighted it's generating discussion and raising her profile.

The Council should take it down. It's not compulsory that it remains there, is it?

Crude and really inappropriate for park gates. I'd be furious if I had to see this with my children.

@NoSquirrels

If they’d put the version of this artwork with flat shoes on the gate - the one where your ‘assumption’ is male, then that would have been interesting.

??? Because spread legs are sexually associated with men ????

Horrific

I see the artist has a degree in gender studies, so no doubt buys into the trope that sex work is empowering. Well maybe it is for a small minority, but not for most women and so why is the council glorifying overtly sexual and exploitative images of women?

Awful. Spread the legs and enter here. It’s a sexualised representation of a female and it’s connotations are unpleasant. It isn’t edgy or boundary pushing it’s just misogynistic and in very bad taste when you think about the sexual assaults on women in that area.

@TheBurmundseyIndustrialEstate

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.

Completely agree with this. Vile.

Dear me, that's grim.

Thats bloody hellish.
Who on earth thought this was a good idea?

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

All of this.

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. - they may well have been intended as a positive comment on the sex workers in the park
Jesus! What on earth do you think is positive about low income , marginalised women, who may well be addicts, having to give access to their bodies to men in a public park in order to survive financially or feed their addictions? Why do you think public authorities would want to send a positive message about this, rather than seek top tackle the root causes that lead marginalised women to such, frankly, dangerous work?

Disgusting, vile piece of Art. The placing of it is particularly disturbing.

And its not edgy is it? Its offensive as its just replicating a tired old sexist trope that I think most of us hoped would die off as we progressed as a society. Its regressive sexism. Fucking horrible. How can schools and us as a society tackle sexist bulling and intimidation by young men of young women when this shite is paraded by public authorities.