Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate (Loony Feminist Alert!)

Harvard Crimson ^ | Monday, February 24, 2003 | HANA R. ALBERTS

[OXENinFLA]

When a few members of the Harvard crew team decided to build a snowy representation of the male anatomy on Feb. 11, they never imagined it would be so hard to keep it up.

LOLOL!!!!

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

scary thing is, she's probably pretty tame compared to the rest of the Hahvad population.

[templar]

Check Post #14.

Check #40.

Two different issues here, the display and the crazy chick.

[dirtboy]

The 9-foot snow phallus, constructed in Tercentenary Theater, was torn down just hours after its erection.

They could have just flashed a picture of Janet Reno in front of it (I'm melting! I'm meellting...)

[Cvengr]

Yes, the Rice of the North has its drawbacks. ;^)

[Dan from Michigan]

ROFL. I figured this had to be from BSNN or the Onion at first.

[stands2reason]

Obviously boobies aren't "threatening" or "violent" like the erect penis is.

[MikalM]

The point of bringing up Post #14 (the VAGINA MONOLOGUES reference) was to show the incredible double standards these people have. A snow construction that will melt in a few days is a public obscenity, but a tuition- and tax-subsidized three-hour paean to female genitalia is a triumph. Especially if it celebrates the seduction of a 16 YO girl by a middle-aged lesbian (yup, that's one of the "Monologues"...)

As for public art displaying genitalia being immoral, wouldn't that disqualify a lot of the great paintings and statues of the last 2500 years from ever being shown?

[theDentist]

“Smart kids overanalyze things,” he said.

... as do the stupid.

[weegee]

I have two things to say:

"Put some ice on that" and "it's just sex".

Let the college kiddies at Hahvahd ponder that in their poli-sci classes.

[Theophilus]

A clear cut case of Female Genital Mutilation - I'm against that, even if it's 9 ft and gives me feelings of inadequacy.

[theDentist]

On a side note: I wonder what device(s) they used for the Bobbitizing procedure?

And I wonder if they see the irony in their action?

[templar]

As for public art displaying genitalia being immoral, wouldn't that disqualify a lot of the great paintings and statues of the last 2500 years from ever being shown?

I don't recall any great paintings and statues of an errect penis being displayed publicly. Perhaps you could point some of them out? If a man goes out and publicly displays his naked errection he will end up in jail and, probably, a registered sex offender for the rest of his life. Deliberatly displaying an errect phallus publicly is not that different. It is inappropriate and a violation of public morals (except, maybe, in countries like California). I find the Vagina Monologues equally offensive, but thay are not being performed openly in public where everyone passing by is exposed to them.

[VRWCmember]

That is NOT where the carrot goes on a snowman!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Women do not need to be reminded of the power of the symbol of the male genitalia,” Rosenfeld said

Yes we do..... remind me......

[George W. Bush]

This is way too Freudian for me to comment.

[wimpycat]

Are you kidding? Erect phalluses adorned tables, chairs, paintings, frescoes, statues, just about everything in ancient Rome. It was a common symbol in ancient Greece as well. They were so common as to be literally part of the furniture.

The reason you don't recall any of them is that they usually don't show up on TV or in coffee-table art books.

[RonF]

Heck, a couple of my buddies and I built a snow penis out on Commonwealth Avenue in front of our MIT fraternity house one night. Even colored the tip with red foot coloring in water and stuck a bunch of twigs on the base for pubic hair. Left it there overnight until we got sick of it and tore it down the next morning.

It's a sophmoric prank and if Amy and her friends were offended, I can see why. But to make this a big feminist case is too ridiculous.

[ricpic]

In fierce foaming flare-up
Fems fight
Perpetual priapic push
Upwelling 'gainst
Strictures silly and insane.

[SoothingDave]

“It was gendered violence, because [their comments] were said in the context of our gender and accompanied by aggressive actions toward us.”

I seriously can't believe there are people in the world who use sentences like this with a straight face.

My thoughts exactly.

SD