WTF?

[hellison]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4514906.stm

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

Comments

[malvino.livejournal.com]

It might just be me being cynical, but is there actually any evidence at all that anyone complained, let alone 30 people?

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.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Never thought of it that way, but you could be right. Nothing like a censorship storm to drum up publicity and getting people to come see what they're not allowed to.

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

Hmm - the Bit plot thickens
Although feeling rather cheated since offending article exhibits NOTHING but ribbage! (And not red ribbed arousers either)

[malvino.livejournal.com]

It's tempting to go down there with a thick marker and give him a huge stork-on, problem is they'd then be able to claim £1200 from the insurance and get even more publicity. Perhaps I should just go down late at night and draw a cock on the woman (well, on the glass in-front of it) they put in the window to replace mr. floppy.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

i think you must. and now i'm thinking:

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'.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

It'd probably sell for more ;p