I can't quite believe this

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A design for park gates in Scotland.
Artist asks are they female? twitter.com/defiaye/status/1426950743840395267?s=19

What on earth is going on in the heads of these post mod women.

Thread in AIBU

They've got a point - but it's a good dodge of the issue.

Anyone remember these female legs?
www.capitalfm.com/events/brits/photos/through-the-years/20/

Disgusting. Imagine going to the park with your kids and seeing that 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

So this is a park? A kiddies play park?

Reading the artist's comments a woman was recently (sexually?) assaulted there and the artist thought this is a good idea?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. It must take hell of a lot of education to be that clueless.

I saw mentioned that this is a park where a woman was raped recently...

Why does a disembodied pair of spread legs in high heels give the park a "feminine vibe"?? Especially if we are also being invited to consider the assumption that the legs are representing a woman. If they could equally be regarded as male then what makes this image particularly feminine in the mind of the artist? It's contradictory nonsense.

The original piece of art that these legs came from, on display in an Icelandic museum, makes much more sense as a thought provoking piece about costume and gender stereotypes. Why did the council and the art organisation they paid for this feel that this "reworking" of the original makes a better statement about the same topic??

So "yoi think they are women's legs spread for sex because that is the obvious interpretation, well haha! They're not! They are actually an example of aggressive manspreading. We think it makes the park more feminine."

This

Are all arms of government in Scotland making a point of showing everyone they possibly can that they hate women?
I mean is this some kind of stance they have deliberatly taken up, for some reason they are keeping secret?

Classy.

I would not class that as art.

I'm trying to think of a way in which it's not shit.

In concept? Shit.
In execution? Shit.

It looks like a shitty prop from a drag club or amateur theatre production.

Someone on the other thread suggested it was appropriate because the park is a place where some prostitutes meet their clients!

The installation has been removed or is being removed today according to a local councillor.

Well that's good news, Big Sister, but how much council taxpayers' money has been wasted, I wonder?

And when are the grownups going to be back in the building?!

It's not so much that it's offensive but that it's so shit. Not just your average shit this is Blackpool postcard tacky ass kinda shit and someone came up with that idea and someone else agreed.

Vast, unprecedented levels of sheer shit going on here.

@PinniGig

It's not so much that it's offensive but that it's so shit. Not just your average shit this is Blackpool postcard tacky ass kinda shit and someone came up with that idea and someone else agreed.

Vast, unprecedented levels of sheer shit going on here.

Exactly - I have seen some awful modern art but this doesn't even count as art. The legs seem to have been removed now and replaced with some lovely suffragette ribbons

It’s offensive and shit. It’s a double whammy.

You can bullshit anything into sounding reasonable. Particularly when it comes to ‘art’.

“Giving the area a feminine vibe”. Ahh

FFS.

I await with bated breath for the “woke” narrative to be something along the lines of “horrible middle class white feminists campaign to remove immigrant’s work from local park”. Everything’s our fault.

The only message I'm getting is tacky AF

"the work"? It looks like an end of year 6th form prank.

Where is the bar for being an artist these days?

Honest to goodness, who thought this was a good idea? I hope it is getting removed and soon.