An Unnecessarily Sexy Statue Is Provoking Some Strong Feelings in Italy

[Hood Critic]

 

[Pressure]

Workers got cakes too

 

[Matriarchy Refugee]

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.

Still doesn't address my point of why aren't statues of naked men labeled sexist but somehow this statue is.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Still doesn't address my point of why aren't statues of naked men labeled sexist but somehow this statue is.

Yes it did. Did you not even understand what I wrote?

The issue isn't "being naked". The issue is sexualizing a character who had nothing to do with sex.


An ode to Tyra Banks that emphasized her body would make sense. An ode to Coretta Scott King that did so would be sexist. What is so tough to understand about that?

 

[Eddie_1100]

Article referred to this 19th-century Italian painting of a woman in her same profession:

She could be holdin’ too, kinda hard to tell from this angle.

 

[Matriarchy Refugee]

Yes it did. Did you not even understand what I wrote?

The issue isn't "being naked". The issue is sexualizing a character who had nothing to do with sex.


An ode to Tyra Banks that emphasized her body would make sense. An ode to Coretta Scott King that did so would be sexist. What is so tough to understand about that?

You got it bruh

I see where this is going

 

[NZA]

maybe this is nepotism? could be some big wig's idiot nephew got the sculpting gig. definitely a ridiculous statue.