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

Its not even just the concept thats offensive but how shitely done it is - they look like clown legs or a prop from a pantomime dame.

Grim and misogynistic. Different if it was actually saying something but it’s really not, just poor, bad “art”. And if the area is used by sex workers I doubt they would take that as a compliment, it’s disgusting and objectifying.

Grim, misogynistic but also just unbelievably shit.

Is this on Twitter anywhere?

Ignore me, first post. Going in...

Seems a bit tasteless to me but I don;t understand art very much, I am quite ignorant of the Art world .

Jeepers, that's rotten looking, in addition to being inappropriate.

YANBU, that is revolting.

@reprehensibleme

'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'

WTAF.

As one of the natives for want of a better term. I don't think people refer to newcomers as non-Glaswegian or not Scottish. I think most in Glasgow think in terms of working class areas that have had new housing built or regeneration and then the Middle classes move in and take over. This has been a bit of a problem in Glasgow, particularly in the south side.

Who ever thought putting those legs up must be an idiot. particularly when parks carry an element of risk to the safety of women.

WTF? That is just horrible. Not surprising its Scotland either, where misogynistic hate crime apparently just doesn't exist, but a woman can be arrested for wrongthink and ribbons.

Shall await the Twitter comments about 'Karens', 'kink shamers', 'pearl clutchers' and 'prudes' levelled against anyone who thinks this 'art instllation' is vile.

So sick of the rife misogyny everywhere at the moment.

Argh, just responded to wrong person. I was replying to someone who had moved in to Glasgow.

The artist uses high heeled shoes to trigger the assumption that the legs belong to a woman - so I would like to know why they used that version instead of the one with flat shoes that looks like the legs belong to a man?

What alarms me, as I suppose is intended, is that literally any hole may be perceived as one that someone can use/abuse at will.

I take the point that art is intended to provoke emotion and thought, as with all things though just because you can doesn't mean you should (which I suppose is also another way of describing this work).

Just an easy, cheap shot to have a woman's open legs (even if they do look like a mans legs).
Another thing to help people snigger at women.

Saying that, a precedent has been set..

There are already so many reasons why teenage girls don't use parks - see the work of the charity Make Space for Girls for details

makespaceforgirls.co.uk

But this rubs the message in wholesale, with a double dose of misogyny. Girls, stay at home. The public realm is not for you.

A young woman was raped there in February this year, and they still deem it appropriate. Disgusting.

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

In this society White men are the gatekeepers of misogyny and trampling all over women's rights in pursuit of society bending to what they want. & They can do what they want.

Nothing will happen about this. Incel extremism won't be dealt with. Insidious misogyny that endangers and dehumanises women, sending out a message that women are unworthy of respect (this art in question = women are just a hole) creeps deeper into society regularly. It's all about whose wants are driving it and the power they have as a group to compel others accept it.

The Patriarchy Rules.

Why couldn’t they have used a MANs legs?

Who signs off on these projects whilst knowing a young woman was fairly recently raped there?

This is a great way of making the park unfriendly to women and girls. What a fuckup.

In normal circumstances I would think that misogynistic and grim. In the light of this attack www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/teenage-girl-raped-festival-park-19880065 which the council would be fully aware of it’s also cruel.

Does anyone know if there's any way of registering a complaint about this? I don't use Twitter so not sure if there's been much of a backlash, but the more I'm thinking about this the more annoyed (for annoyed read really fucked off) I'm becoming.

That is absolutely vile, and would put me off ever going near that park . As it is it’s brought back bad memories of needing a gynae op, and the male consultant - when I asked him how long the op would take, his first comment was that my legs would put be wide apart and in stirrups . He was a well educated, top of his game surgeon - not a sleazy, sweaty man in a pub - it’s insidious, it’s everywhere . Women have to put up with this shit on a daily basis - we shouldn’t be marketing it as art in what should be pleasant public spaces !!

I feel like progression made for women in society is rapidly being eroded and stuff like this is just completely depressing. Society was far from perfect in the 1990’s but it seemed better at that point.

Women were getting more rights. I was involved with writing equal opportunities policies back in 1989, then equal pay for work of equal value really took off and then it was made it possible for men to be charged with raping their wives which they could not even be charged with till 1992.

I just hate what’s happening.

Iputthetrampintrampoline that’s the issue with art, alleged experts just say a load of old shite and people feel too intimidated to question those opinions. I remember a lecturer when I was a first year describing the significance of a woman dropping her knitting, it was a passage from a very dry Victorian novel and thinking sounds like bollocks to me.

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@MaMelon

I have seen a similar "work of art" on a gateway used by a criminal cult that promotes "sacred prostitution".

I find it in extremely poor taste, badly executed, trashy.

What where they thinking?

In this society White men are the gatekeepers of misogyny

Why are you trying to reinforce the idea that whoever approved of this was white?