There’s a naked (with a bikini wax) #MeToo-inspired Medusa statue going up in front of a Manhattan courthouse next week
Meanwhile, in New York City, a #MeToo-inspired statue of Medusa — but one where she cuts the head off of Perseus instead of the other way around — is going up next week in front of a courthouse in downtown Manhattan:
Rachel Holliday Smith ~ whoa. a seven-foot-tall bronze sculpture of "Medusa With The Head of Perseus" will be installed across the street from 100 Centre St., Manhattan's criminal courthouse this weekend, a commentary on the #MeToo movement.
http://mwthproject.com/oct-2020
LOL:
tanvi ~ Medusa Barbie
And everyone seems to be noticing the same thing:
Jess Zimmerman ~ Hey folks are you in the market for a book that describes this statue as having a "curiously blank pubis"? Would you like it to go on to offer a slightly less Swimsuit Edition image of Medusa? Just uhhhhhhhhh watch this space I guess.
But it’s for the #MeToo movement so it must be good:
Gita Jackson: Destiny 2 Bail Compilation ~ Like why bother with this photorealistic depiction of a woman with a naturally, completely bald puss if you're not also going to carve it out of stone.
And there’s this:
mitrebox ~ I don't know much about Greek mythology but shouldn't the carpet match the drapes?
Exactly! There should be snakes down there:
Gita Jackson: Destiny 2 Bail Compilation ~ The people agree: medusa had snake pubes.
Fix this, “cowards”!
Jaclyn: Be Gay, Use The Force ~ There should be tiny snakes down there but they’re cowards.
Or, maybe not:
Jess Zimmerman ~ I don't have an OFFICIAL position on whether Medusa had snake pubes but because in Ovid the snake hair was a transformation specifically of her crowning glory, and few people glory in their pubes, I'm inclined to think she had regular pubes. She definitely did not wax.
Oh, and there are serious implications here putting this in front of the court buildings in downtown NYC:
Nathaniel Friedman ~ Pretty sure nobody thought through what it means to enshrine an extrajudicial revenge killing in front of a courthouse.
Whoops!
Nathaniel Friedman ~ A Medusa statue in front of a courthouse is either saying "revenge is an important part of American justice" or "this court may fail you miserably in which case you can take matters into your own hands."
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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