Statue to honour Wollstonecraft

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www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/mary-wollstonecraft-finally-honoured-with-statue-after-200-years

It's a naked woman..

Currently reading A Vindication of the Rights of Woman for an OU course, and - unless the tone changes dramatically in the second half of it - I'm not seeing how an idealised nude is the right statue to convey anything about her?

That's a beautiful monument User.

In these days when women are being reduced to birthing bodies/people and the word mother is being erased it is very moving to see such a beautiful depiction.

Silver tits. 💪💪💪💪💪

That is lovel6 user. So rings so many bells with me feeding a baby

Silver tits doesn’t at all

I was thinking a statue of Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley together would've been a nice way to go - love the Skopje statues.

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@anon444877

I was thinking a statue of Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley together would've been a nice way to go - love the Skopje statues.

I'd love to see that in addition to a more fitting tribute to MW.

This is a statue of strong women

Love that littl and the mothers in Skopje user. Women who look like women shock!

Is that capacious bush a sop to the trans movement?

I keep hearing silver tits as a line from Gavin and Stacey.

@Malahaha

Haven't read the whole thread but am I the only one to think that the statue's pubes look a little -- well, knobbish? Like a blob planted there?

I've never seen a naked women with such um bulky pubes. Especially so in this full frontal image. twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/1326318289488732160

Now going back to page 4 to catch up.

Maybe she is supposed to be wearing a 'full bodied' merkin? Voluminous like American 'big hair'. No clothes, but a hairy pubic wig.

Beehive hair do?

It's a shite statue. Is it just me, or does the statue look like she's wearing a merkin? Or maybe smuggling barmcakes? Is a protruding pudenda 'IN', this season? So many thoughts...

haha, not just me, then...

This is delightful.

A stopped clock and all that.

I read that as a stopped cock before I opened the image to see who had posted it.

Women should write this into their wills, refusing permission to ever be commemorated, by/with/for/using any preposition or declension, in the nip.

I'm thinking of getting it tattooed on somewhere, just in case I become a late bloomer and do something impressive before I snuff it.

Oh dear Shon Faye doesn't approve of the t-shirt thing, slap on the wrist British ladies, you are doing feminism wrong...

Love the fact there's no comment on the tee or dresser in the write up!

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mary-wollstonecraft-sculpture-covered-clothes-feminism-b65266.html

Maybe this was Maggie's plan all along ...

Thread explaining the choice.

Definitely confusion over what choice was the "right" choice and i suspect there would have been criticism either way:

(I prefer the maquette.)

Breasts are still too pointy though.

I'd love to know what Jenny Savile would have done.,