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Should have been bronzed with a statue of Robert E Lee riding it pointing North.It was decommissioned and scrapped during the Reagan and Bush Sr. years. Shame.
Should have been bronzed with a statue of Robert E Lee riding it pointing North.It was decommissioned and scrapped during the Reagan and Bush Sr. years. Shame.
also, too thin.Take it down. We have no way of knowing where on the gender spectrum she identifies.
also, too thin.
under-representation of the fat girls constituency.
So is the fearless girl a feminist statue?
I don't really get it.
agree with this so much.I have a much bigger problem with corporate appropriation of public art than I do with statues remembering confederate military leaders.
I am watching this latest american hysteria about tearing down all sorts of statues. i see many arguments being thrown around for the removal of a lot of historical monuments in the US. Given that the are only a limited number of confederate statues to be torn down, i believe the force of this latest movement will reach other monuments as well, that might be seen as uncomfortable/triggering for certain people.
In this context, there are people that might argue that the Fearless Girl statue presents an unfair image of young girls, meaning thin, with facial characteristics that leave out a significant portion of the population, wearing clothers that are clearly derived from the oppressive patriarchal model, and, for the people that read books, conjures the picture of the Minotaur (the bull in front) in a threatening pose, maybe a metaphor for rape.
What do you guys think? i am an European, curios about your answers.
thanks.
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But let's talk about statues sarcastically like the entire forum lives in cali.
sounds like a man that's worth having a statue of, right?Robert E. Lee spoke on this subject.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/robert-e-lee-opposed-confederate-monuments/
Looking at the issue from 2017, his thoughts seem really damn prescient.
well, if one makes the argument that the US government is always at a risk of being co-opted (which is the same as it being overthrown, since it no longer represents the will of the people) by the corporate world, and she is a piece of art financed by the same corporate world, i think one can make the equivalency quite nice and easy.Did she lead a rebellion in an attempt to overthrow the American government?
If not, then I believe, whatever other nuance there is to this, that we may be drawing a false equivalency.
sounds like a man that's worth having a statue of, right?
would such a monument, which i think is a good idea, survive today's iconoclastic movement?Yeah. Engrave it with his words about the South losing the civil war needing to move on and put it in front of every Southern capital building.
what left symbolic statues are being thrown down today so it might represent a big deal for the left?# of "leftists" discussing statues today: 0
# of "conservatives" discussing statues today: Look at the thread.
Remind me who's making these statues such a big deal again? Anyone here identifying as left give a shit about these statues?