The Right To Not Be Offended
I already wrote about the Wellesley art kerfuffle, but I liked this quote form Lenore Skenazy
Once we equate making people feel bad with actually attacking them, free expression is basically obsolete, since anything a person does, makes or says could be interpreted as abuse.
Beyond the general amazing sight of feminists acting like Victorian women with the vapors rather than strong, confident human beings, I am still amazed at this interpretation of the art as somehow representing a male threat. Perhaps this is one area where the campus is poorer for the lack of male voices. I can't imagine there are many men who see this statue as anything other than a representation of fear and vulnerability and helplessness. Seriously, does anyone consider sleepwalking at school in your tighty whities as anything but a bad dream? If you had showed me this statue before all the brouhaha and asked me if it was more threatening to men or women, I would have answered "men" without a second thought.
MingoV:
I saw photos of that statue. It threatened my sense of good taste. The "message" of the statue is juvenile, whether you believe it expresses the vulnerability of a near-naked man or whether you believe a dopey-looking near-naked man is a threat.
Otherwise, the statue is tasteless and ugly and should be placed onto a scrap heap with all the other ugly statues.
February 12, 2014, 3:45 pmMNHawk:
Maybe the sisterhood could organize a mass twerking exercise about the statue, the way they did a dead chicken at Columbia?
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5414
Yes, Ivy League degrees do still impress me!
February 14, 2014, 7:49 am