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The Puritan Left Strikes Again

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An art gallery in Airstrip One removed a Victorian Era painting that depicted women in a state of undress; it offended the #MeToo movement.

It isn’t the first time this has happened and, oh, guess who else is involved in the sudden left-wing purge against “offensive” art?

Facebook has been criticised for removing imagery of a nude statue of the god Neptune which has stood in a public square in Bologna, Italy, for centuries. It said the work was “sexually explicit.”

Likewise, imagery of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark, was taken down for showing “too much bare skin.”

While in 2016, officials in Florence, Italy, covered up Michelangelo’s “David” during a visit by the president of Iran, reportedly to respect the country’s cultural norms.

By the way, it’s only the depiction of the beauty of the human form that the cultural jihadists on the left find offensive; crucifixes dunked in urine and the Virgin Mary smeared in menses are still just dandy.

Heck, I’m old enough to remember when the left got their panties in a wad because George W. Bush’s Attorney General covered the hoo-hahs on a naked lady statue.

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  1. Yet leftists frequently exclaimed that women wearing plunging necklines and short skirts must be free of whistles and Hoots from men on the street and must not be seen as being alluring. Methinks the Democrats are held hostage by Bernie’s holdover millennials who’s abilities at logic and clear thought are retarded.

  9. It should be remembered that Ashcroft was regularly photographed with the nude statue behind him in an effort to deliberately ridicule his religious views. Photographers would compete with each other to capture him with his mouth near the nipple of the statue’s exposed breast, etc. Why he didn’t simply change venues instead of spending the $7K for the draperies is beyond me.

  12. I wonder how much of this is driven by the religion or special needs?(On the other hand if any member of that group molests said statues, will they be arrested for statutory rape.)

  13. Statutory rape…good one,Matthew. The cognitive dissonance on the left should be paralyzing, from free love (sex with anyone, anytime, anywhere) of the 60’s to statue and painting prudery of the 20teens. I really don’t understand how their heads keep from just exploding but I guess when post-modern marxism is your guiding light you just stumble around in the dark emitting cries of despair as if they were profound rules for life.

  15. The art of “primitive” civilizations zones in on indoor plumbing and outdoor plumbing and the use of each along with the naughty parts often being exaggerated.

    The über-civilized Georgia O’Keefe spent 60 years denying her orchids were actually vaginas. That is to say: “Who you gonna’ believe? Me or your dirty eyes?”

    Just why a boob has to be undraped is a mystery, but men going back to the caveman have been boob fans. Little boys discovered National Geographic for its “purity” in dealing with tribal women who seem to catch a dose of pregnancy as soon as they turn fertile.

    I have never “understood” Édouard Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass. There is that naked chic with ample hooters and the clothed-to-the-hilt men are totally oblivious to her “charms.” Forget them, I want to see more of the babe! But, it is “great” art and I am too weak minded and crass to understand the message.

    So, the new breed of intellectual and ugly, scrawny and obese Amazons are now going to rule on the proper roll of boobs in our culture.

    OK, women, get a butch haircut, cover up your parts that are “noticeable” to men and boys and go full burka and eye-slit hoodie. Also, please screen the eye-slit for the sake of shooing away notice from Neanderthal men who have an eye fetish.

    All of this, I believe, is to support Hillary and her pants suits built for her by Omar the tent maker.

  16. John was standing in the lingerie store staring at a collection of Wonder Bras.

    The clerk noticed he had been there for some time and that he appeared to be having trouble picking one out.

    She walked over and asked him if she could be of assistance.

    John answered,

    “Well, yes, please advise… if it’s a Wonder Bra, am I supposed to pick the size she is, or the size I want her to be?!”

  17. I’ve really had it with all the people who are offended by every last thing. Now they have struck my beloved Cleveland Indians. So help me – I’ll be stocking up on Chief Wahoo apparel this season – just so I can p*#s off libs for the rest of my life.

  22. I’ll be stocking up on Chief Wahoo apparel this season

    I think you have some time. So the story goes, they have to keep selling apparel with Chief Wahoo on it in order to preserve the trademark. But they don’t have to sell it everywhere, so the third party retail sales will probably dump the existing stock ASAP so that’s where the deals might be found.

  23. Not made clear in the story: The painting in question (Hylas and the Nymphs, J.W. Waterhouse, 1896) depicts a handsome young mortal dude seconds before he is accidentally killed by a bunch of horny mermaids! (These are freshwater naiads and aren’t malicious predators like some of your saltwater fish-women — they’re just unfamiliar with mortal men and mistakenly assume that he can breathe underwater.) In other words, it’s a sort of “reverse gang-bang” that goes bad.

    Besides being rendered with great technical skill, the painting also offers some interesting points for discussion — I mean, it’s sort of a hetero-male fantasy about being “sexed to death” by a bunch of incredibly beautiful young women, but made more palatable for late-Victorian sensibilities by the distancing effect of the Greek-myth framework.