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The WTF moment being not so much the removal of the painting but the fact that the complaints, from *men* included "Some said the picture would upset women".
Not women complaining.
No, MEN complaining that Ladies would be Upset by a rather vague drawing of MALE FLESH.
OH NOES! Quick quick, I'm hyperventilating at the very THOUGHT, someone loosen my stays and fetch my smelling salts and embroidery! Call for my carriage, I must be taken home before my tiny mind (assuming I have one) collapses entirely!
Seriously, What The Fuck?
Have we slipped back a century or two and no-one told me? Who ARE these men? Why do they still exist? Are they on day release?
PS on an entirely unrelated note, I hope none of you Englanders are on fire or getting smoked out
The WTF moment being not so much the removal of the painting but the fact that the complaints, from *men* included "Some said the picture would upset women".
Not women complaining.
No, MEN complaining that Ladies would be Upset by a rather vague drawing of MALE FLESH.
OH NOES! Quick quick, I'm hyperventilating at the very THOUGHT, someone loosen my stays and fetch my smelling salts and embroidery! Call for my carriage, I must be taken home before my tiny mind (assuming I have one) collapses entirely!
Seriously, What The Fuck?
Have we slipped back a century or two and no-one told me? Who ARE these men? Why do they still exist? Are they on day release?
PS on an entirely unrelated note, I hope none of you Englanders are on fire or getting smoked out
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Date: 2005-12-12 01:15 am (UTC)The only argument I can see for censorship on behalf of others is when the material is liable to increase social instability or crime... a cartoon piccie of a bloke with his willy out hardly does that, you can find thousands of examples in secondary school workbooks around the world.
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Date: 2005-12-12 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 03:14 am (UTC)Can't be very good music. :)
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Date: 2005-12-12 01:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 02:13 am (UTC)I was so offended that I had to go and look at lots of other pictures with naked men in just to check my outrage levels were sufficiently high.
Honestly ;-)
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Date: 2005-12-12 06:23 am (UTC)Where to find the naked men plz?
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Date: 2005-12-12 02:29 am (UTC)PS - Must tell the sister not to exhibit in England. She does men's bits in Xtra Thick Oil Paint - the men in question being her exes. When we went to one of her exhibitions all her dad could say was 'You know it's good when the penis follows you around the room'
He really did say that.
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Date: 2005-12-12 02:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 02:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 03:14 am (UTC)Or rather, waht's attached to the penis.
(technique, peopel!)
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Date: 2005-12-12 03:22 am (UTC)(PS Ceirseach sorry about ranting on your journal I just can't stop myself when it comes to THAT FILM - not harry potter)
ararar
It's happening again
rarrr rarrrrrr rarrrrrrrrrrrr
Weeeeeeee'll sooooooon seeeeeeeeee whooooooooooo the beeeeeg fella is around heeeeere
*jumps up and down in rage*
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Date: 2005-12-12 03:25 am (UTC)(Yes, that line annoys me too, I have to say.)
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Date: 2005-12-12 03:27 am (UTC)Really.
Q
Date: 2005-12-12 06:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 06:20 am (UTC)Pervy dead relative fancier that you are :p
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Date: 2005-12-12 07:54 am (UTC)Alan Rickman is not a relative and he is not dead
Nyar.
I thought I'd gone off him anyway, but he's pretty hot in Harry Potter...
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Date: 2005-12-12 05:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 06:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 07:55 am (UTC)*pantpant*
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Date: 2005-12-12 07:56 am (UTC)and back on topic... wtf? art galleries are full of naked lady parts! the whole story v. fishy - i lean towards the publicity notion.
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Date: 2005-12-12 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 05:32 am (UTC)If I was an art gallery that got 30 potential customers a day, trying to sell 'art' at £1200 a pop, in an expensive area of London, I just might have enough time on my hands to think up a way to get some free coverage, and possibly an impulse buy or two from the kind of person who will support anything that apparently outrages someone else, especially if there's censorship involved.
It might be co-incidence that this is also their first exhibition in their spanking new space, after having to move from Bond street... because they were ignored by everyone and had to downsize because couldn't afford the rent anymore.
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Date: 2005-12-12 06:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 07:53 am (UTC)Although feeling rather cheated since offending article exhibits NOTHING but ribbage! (And not red ribbed arousers either)
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Date: 2005-12-12 08:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 08:12 am (UTC)Hermaphroditic porn. Starlets with both organs. You should see the box, beautiful chicks with dicks that put mine to shame.
sorry. too many viewings of 'clerks'.
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Date: 2005-12-12 02:10 pm (UTC)