"Statues dressed in ‘transphobic’ T-shirts" The Times

[MrsSnippyPants]

Haven't seen this linked here yet. Sorry, no share token.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/statues-dressed-in-transphobic-t-shirts-l8lppl2zj?fbclid=IwAR2vTDpOCo5pP6wp1XPBafllPrCBIwBr9r5L9DjOHMwW0oPxgJSGbrFTwmI

There's a sharetoken link in one of the threads with ReSisters in its title.

Thanks Errol, hadn't seen it, things move so fast!

No problem - some good comments on it!

I'm in two minds about the t-shirts.

The statues are 'women' in appearance only. If these are women, then a male human making themselves into a similar artistic outer representation is also a 'woman' in that exact sense.

I'm probably not conveying my overthinking very well here.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

i don't think the t-shirts suggest that the statues are actually women, they don't say "this woman, who's wearing me, is an adult human female." i like the cut of you;re overthinking jib tho :)

Very much a symbolic gesture. :)

Also interesting to read about the statues and the notable women many of them inspired.

The statues are 'women' in appearance only. If these are women, then a male human making themselves into a similar artistic outer representation is also a 'woman' in that exact sense.
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I'm probably not conveying my overthinking very well here.*

You're conveying well that you're overthinking!

I know my local group - faced with a dearth of statues representing actual women - decided not to use female allegorical statues. They managed to find a good statue of a real woman, though they had a long trek from where they lived to dress her.

Good for them!

If I mention that my reaction to the Minnie the Minx statue was ‘But that’s not an adult!’ it may convey just how much overthinking I can do

Transphobic because...? (rhetorical question)

Not transphobic - 'transphobic' ... i.e. someone (e.g Pink News) has thus characterised this pro-women activism.

It always gets turned around...it is PRO WOMEN !

Who was Minnie the Minx?

If a person believes the Mantra TWAW
Why is the dictionary definition of a woman Transphobic?

If I mention that my reaction to the Minnie the Minx statue was ‘But that’s not an adult!’ it may convey just how much overthinking I can do.

I'm a born pedant so I completely understand!

Who was Minnie the Minx?

She's a character in the Beano, created in 1953 but a perpetual rebel girl. She's got a Wikipedia page!

Maybe shouldn't have qualified but putting the shirt on her statue is in line with the good humour of this protest.

Minnie the Minx is a Beano Comic character. I loved her and Ivy the Terrible. Oh and the Bash St Kids.

Surely Minnie is by now an adult human female.

Thanks for the explanations. I'd heard of Minnie the Moocher...

I'm showing my age by admitting that I remember when most Minnie the Minx cartoons seemed to end in a slippering from mum or dad.