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2014-02-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Realistic-looking statues of guy in his underwear to be banned in Boston?

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Posted by Fred 2014-02-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 If it's a statue, it needs to be stone colored, Pink flesh is just wrong.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-02-06 01:29|| 2014-02-06 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 The women of Wellesley are always involved
Any time that a sister has a booboo unsalved.
It would be for the best if this sculpture evolved,
So rename him "Gay Sleepwalker." Problem solved.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-02-06 03:22|| 2014-02-06 03:22|| Front Page Top

#3 IIRC, the 'classical' Greek statues were painted. Like so many things left out in the open and subject to environmental wear, they bleached out along with the 'classical' period. When the Renaissance society made collecting the old stuff a display of class and status, the raw appearance that we associate with them rather than the original display became the new norm.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-02-06 07:31|| 2014-02-06 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 To quote Instapundit:

They told me if I voted for Mitt Romney, America would be overrun with prudes whod faint at the thought of a Hanes ad. And they were right!

UPDATE: Jonathan Adler emails: I always thought one purpose of art was to challenge, provoke and, yes, make us uncomfortable. Its fine to make squares in flyover country uncomfortable. But not members of the elite.

Posted by Steve White 2014-02-06 07:57|| 2014-02-06 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 It's entirely different for a college to stage the Vagina Monologues or to have some screechy woman glorify her lady parts on stage. Very different indeed, and anyone with a degree in art history or gender studies would know the difference.

Posted by Steve White 2014-02-06 08:01|| 2014-02-06 08:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Woman only college?

How sexist is that!?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-02-06 08:05|| 2014-02-06 08:05|| Front Page Top

#7 "Wellesley is a place where we're supposed to feel safe"
That's it in a nutshell. You don't actually have to BE safe, just FEEL safe. After all, it is all about FEELINGS.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-02-06 12:17|| 2014-02-06 12:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Want to end the caterwauling? Just hang a sign on it that's says "Know The Enemy".

Posted by Chailet Unase8653 2014-02-06 12:42|| 2014-02-06 12:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Upset Smithies would have chopped it into tiny little pieces and dumped it at Amherst.

Posted by Shipman 2014-02-06 12:57|| 2014-02-06 12:57|| Front Page Top

#10 I think the next step would be to have the statue on a motorized skateboard and travel to various campus GPS coordinates, with the occasional follow program.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-02-06 13:33|| 2014-02-06 13:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Robotics for the win!

Hey, maybe the statue would be less offensive to elite (hah!) sensibilities if the dude was standing in a bucket of pee.

Posted by SteveS 2014-02-06 13:55|| 2014-02-06 13:55|| Front Page Top

#12 First the statue clearly mocks men and they are still threatened? Imagine if the statue was of a woman in her underwear? Oh the rage at the women's college would be audible in California (too fat, too thin, too sexist, too threatening!)

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-02-06 14:53|| 2014-02-06 14:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Hillary's college. Come to think, the statue looks a little like Bill -- mouth open, arms out stretched, tighty whities... although Hillary hasn't seen him that way in 30 years.

Posted by regular joe 2014-02-06 15:36|| 2014-02-06 15:36|| Front Page Top

#14 No does she want to, rj.

Posted by Barbara 2014-02-06 15:40|| 2014-02-06 15:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Oops! :-(

"Nor"

Posted by Barbara 2014-02-06 16:16|| 2014-02-06 16:16|| Front Page Top

#16 I dunno, rjs.

I think a similar statue of a woman - in underwear and sleepwalking - right next to the guy, but in a position showing that they just missed bumping into each other, would be hilarious. :-D

Posted by Barbara 2014-02-06 16:19|| 2014-02-06 16:19|| Front Page Top

#17 Barbara I think that would work if the female statue had cankles -- the hallmark of a Wellesley Woman.

Posted by regular joe 2014-02-06 16:31|| 2014-02-06 16:31|| Front Page Top

#18 What's funny is the knee jerk bitchfest that results in... A petition. How typical, did not DO anything, instead go whine to the authorities about hurt feelings. Tells you a lot about their lack of character.

Put that statue out in the open on a public university campus, and within a few days it would have had several wardrobe changes including at least one cross dressing, a couple of inventive paint jobs, and at least one frat would have attached an "anatomical enhancement" overnight.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-02-06 20:26|| 2014-02-06 20:26|| Front Page Top

#19 Too true, OS. :-D

Posted by Barbara 2014-02-06 20:49|| 2014-02-06 20:49|| Front Page Top

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