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.

Good that's it's been removed, if it has, but who - WHO - in their right mind would have thought that was acceptable in a public park?!! What with this and the dildo rainbow monkey at the children's library event the other week you have to question the motives of those making these decisions. Are they trying to provoke, do they have an agenda to degrade women and sexualise children or are they just really clueless?

I'm glad they are being taken down. I think someone would have ripped them down anyway.

Agree that it's good that they've been taken down but how many people must have been involved in agreeing to put them there in the first place.
It just goes to show how extensive the "women as fu** holes" porn ideology has become with so many proponents of it evidently working in local and national government.

I hope the find out who authorised this. It wasn’t promoted a ‘guerilla art’.

This is an example of "post skill" art. Art students are being taught that their purpose is to make a "statement". The skill of execution is secondary. Many of these so called artists have nothing interesting to say and if they do, they don't have the skill to present it in an interesting and intriguing way. Hence we get things like these gates.

I’ve seen better GCSE art projects.

It was originally part of a different installation which definitely had challenging ideas about whether the legs were male or female- it was about isolating symbols from their usual context to see whether the meaning changed.

In this context, it's pants, and the suggestion it's not necessarily female is irrelevant, because in this context they clearly are. (Although I immediately felt the proportions were 'off' for female legs and feet in stilettos!)

I wouldn’t care if the legs were male or female, it’s totally inappropriate for a park. Imagine if the gates got stuck and you had to force them open. I just would rather not go to the park than engage with that symbolism. But maybe that’s the subconscious goal: more women deterred from going out in public space.

I look at that and I find it directly threatening. I am appalled by it. I can't see how any woman would not be. It is offensive beyond measure. And as a teenage girl looking at that I am not sure I would have coped. It is hateful, disgusting and misogynistic imagery. No words around it will change the impact.

There was an 18 year old teenager raped in that park in February this year. 7 months ago. And yet, this is seen as acceptable?

Those gates look even more graphically disturbing when closed. Like something an adolescent boy would scrawl on a school toilet wall. 🤮

What an embarrassment.