An Unnecessarily Sexy Statue Is Provoking Some Strong Feelings in Italy
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To be serious for a second, that's pretty overt sexism. You depict the female laborer narrating the story by reducing her to her body? Who is the statue supposed to be for?
We need time machines if this is how women used to look
Article referred to this 19th-century Italian painting of a woman in her same profession:
this is the most italian shyt ive seen in my life 
These new designers just horny never mindArticle referred to this 19th-century Italian painting of a woman in her same profession:
The men pledging in front of it apparently
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It's no more "sexist" than the statues of David, Hercules, or Adonis.
If you made a statue of Aphrodite it wouldn't be sexist, it would be context-appropriate for the culture.* Depicted a goddess of beauty and sexual love as a sex symbol makes sense. Turning a laborer woman retelling a famous struggle for worker's rights into a mere sexual object does not.
* I'll qualify, making statues of Aphrodite isn't sexist unless that's the only way you ever portray women, then it gets a little suspect.