And this is the kind of quasi-feminist statement that you keep hoping against hope was made in jest:
This gargantuan mockery of Marilyn Monroe, a real woman whose untimely death froze her as an icon of perpetual youth and sexuality in spite of, because of, her documented struggles with being objectified and exploited, is an invitation for “hilarious” displays of male sexual aggression. The link goes to a photo gallery in which men and boys are pictured standing between her legs giving the thumbs up, standing in a way to be photographed to appear to be grabbing her ass, turning their faces up and pretending to lick her, etc.
She is a a giant, silent avatar of non-consent, posed forever to be a sexual object for the pleasure of passers-by.
Sob.
The statue did not consent, people. So probably those who lick her without consent should be brought to trial for rape.
When I heard the story of Russian millionaires renting halls in the Hermitage museum and filming themselves “grabbing the statue of Michelangelo’s David by the balls”, I knew they were jerks who were guilty of attempted vandalism. I just never realized they were engaging in a sex crime.
Could we also condemn Michelangelo for touching the statue all over without asking for the statue’s consent? He must have done some serious groping while he was creating it.
Don’t you love it when prudishness tries to mask itself as feminism?
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