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OK, right, frankly, fuck this.

She said: “She’s everywoman and clothes would have restricted her. Statues in historic costume look like they belong to history because of their clothes.

“It’s crucial that she is ‘now’.

“The whole sculpture is called ‘for Mary Wollstonecraft’ and that’s crucially important. It’s not an idea ‘of’ Mary Wollstonecraft naked… the sculpture is for now.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/insulting-to-her-mary-wollstonecraft-sculpture-sparks-backlash

this is a terrible statue and maggie hambling's defence is rambling incoherent garbage.

wow that's crazy!

It could be a statue for like, anything.

And by removing personality and clothes it removes the whole social world that MW moved in/against which conflict is the whole point idgi

the infantile doll at the top:

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d6e7a108000d52ca2ab3935e3ceefabd36c592c6/0_1367_3712_2227/master/3712.jpg?width=1200&height=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=d330ed89cc635f93cdbb73cca232dcb9

and the whole lump:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/154FD/production/_115339278_motg_01_ioanamarinescu.jpg

Oh wow

I thought the top bit was the main bit

Fuck

bad monument for a cool historical figure

"Any passing teenage boy is not going to think, oh, that’s an icon of feminist education. They are going to think – tits!"

Can't not do this in a Coogan voice.

Smoking should be restricted to specific places even outdoors.

Like, I shouldn't have to breath in the smoke just because three smokers want to walk side by side down the street, blowing smoke back behind them.

feel like an unusual amount of time and effort went into the pubes

that's a polite way of putting it

The writer Caitlin Moran tweeted: “Imagine if there was a statue of a hot young naked guy ‘in tribute’ to eg Churchill. It would look mad. This, also, looks mad.”

This would be much better than any existing monument to Churchill.

Hot Lincoln statue in LA to thread.

(xp) Particularly the naked Churchill statues.

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pov about to undo his belt with my teeth

he looks a bit nonplussed about it

abraham lincoln was a thot

Yeah the statue is infuriating. I am someone who kept an open mind about that Medusa by City Hall, but Wollstonecraft should not be depicted in the nude as it separates her from her male contemporaries. Making her “timeless” is stupid; she is relevant to us today because she was an acute observer of her world in the 18th century. You know, they don’t make statues of Kierkegaard with a backwards hat and his cock out.

just got an idea for a cool new statue

Agree that the statue is crap but Wollstonecraft is not depicted in the nude or at all.

The nude woman is “everywoman” in theory right?

Even in that case, idk. Most will see it as a depiction of her. And why depict “women“ in general to memorialize Wollstonecraft in particular?

i didn't know it was cool to have your cock out these days

It's now called "Toobining."

they don’t make statues of Kierkegaard with a backwards hat

maybe that’s the only way he can be understood tho

every single athletic shoe is ugly.

almost every single shoe, in general is ugly.

shoes are ugly

Disagree. Foot boats can be aesthetically pleasing.

Oh wow

I thought the top bit was the main bit

Fuck

― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, November 10, 2020 9:53 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's got the main bits though

A Vindication of the Right to Abstain from Pubic Maintenance

fuck that, i don't want pubes in my Cheerios

I think most teenage boys are going to be too busy giggling at the pubes to notice the tits

also before I scrolled up I thought cardamon was talking about shoes

(specifically the Kanye shoes)

pubes and tits in shoes?

yr kid'll never take em off

Calling it now - someone is definitely going to take some green paint and turn those to chiapubes.

on looking at the statue again, it looks less like pubes and more like a second face

_they don’t make statues of Kierkegaard with a backwards hat_

maybe that’s the only way he can be understood tho

Here are three:

a) Starman is Bowie's worst big single of the 70s.

b) Raspberry Beret is Prince's worst big single of the 80s.

c) Of the run: Blue-For the Roses-Court & Spark-Hissing of Summer Lawns-Hejira, Blue is the worst album.

a, this is correct

b, maybe but that's like being the worst painting by Leonardo da Vinci. still pretty frkn great

c, well that's just wrong

a. Maybe, if you don't count UK top-tens "Sorrow" and "Knock On Wood" as big singles

b. It may be my favourite, but I don't call myself a Prince fan

c. I'll agree with that; Blue has a few overly conventional ("Carey", "River") or hookless ("My Old Man", "Last Time I Saw Richard") songs

River is gorgeous

Sorrow is definitely better than Starman

a) they're creepy and they're kooky
b) mysterious and spooky
c) they're all together ookie

I'm gonna just go ahead and say that both "Starman" AND "Life on Mars" are boring and flabby. DB went to this well a few times too often. It remains a mystery to me that the same dude could bring forth those duds, as well as all the lean and clean material from this period.

Blue is unimpeachable, I will not budge on that

disagree with a), though I can't think of an answer that wouldn't be controversial (maybe "Ziggy Stardust" or "Suffragette City" or maybe "Jean Genie"? I like all of these less than starman)

The fuzzy area in this controp/challop batch is the definition of "big single."

For your consideration as long as we're challopsing:

1. Prince was a singles artist who made albums.

2. Bowie was an albums artist who made singles.

I can't think of an answer that wouldn't be controversial

do u know what thread u r in

are you really willing to defend fucking "America" (which I didn't even realise was a single - baffling choice even by that album's standards) as a better song than RB?