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Realistic statue of man in underwear freaks out women's college
KRMG ^ | February 6, 2014 | Rick Couri

Posted on 02/06/2014 7:52:51 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

300 students have signed a petition to have the creepy, yet lifelike statue removed.

In part, the petition reads;

"This highly realistic sculpture has, within just a few hours of its outdoor installation, become a source of apprehension, fear, and triggering thoughts regarding sexual assault for many members of our campus community.

While it may appear humorous, or thought-provoking to some, it has already become a source of undue stress for many Wellesley College students, the majority of whom live, study, and work in this space."

The Boston Globe reports the piece is called "Sleepwalker," it was put up to bring attention to the work of a sculptor named Tony Matelli.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: academicbias; anatomylesson; art; artcritic; artcriticism; everybodysacritic; feminazism; heterophobia; misandry; misanthropes; savethemales; sleepwalker; statue; tonymatelli; underwear; underwearstatue; wellesley
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I see what the problem is: He’s Caucasian. Just paint him black.


21 posted on 02/06/2014 8:09:02 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: bigbob

“Sorry womyn, it is ART. You like ART, right? Never censor ART, right?”

ART today can be a booger with a hair in it!

BTW; I’m a sleepwalker, REMBD, but I stay in the house,,,,, I think,,,,,…..


22 posted on 02/06/2014 8:09:05 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Any guys that kidded themselves that they are sexy at night in their oonderbars, you are not.


23 posted on 02/06/2014 8:09:13 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Tax-chick
It creeps me out too.

Just because something's called "art" doesn't mean you want to look at.

"Lisa Fiscman is the director of the Davis Museum on the Wellesley College campus. She claims the statue has special meaning."

Maybe Lisa could just put it in her private collection. Maybe in her living room. Or maybe in her office.

24 posted on 02/06/2014 8:10:42 AM PST by Savage Beast
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

"Walk Of Shame"

25 posted on 02/06/2014 8:11:07 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth; All

You beat me to it! I was going to say, paint a cross on it somewhere and it’ll be gone within minutes!

And, it is EXTREMELY CREEPY! *SHUDDER*


26 posted on 02/06/2014 8:11:25 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Vigilanteman
Same artist.
27 posted on 02/06/2014 8:12:03 AM PST by Benito Cereno
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I first realize how wacky college can be is when in the first few weeks I attended college some fraternity built a phallic snow man. A group of nags were walking back from some feminist meeting saw it and complained to the administration. They claimed they were “terrorised”, yes they used that word, by the snow phallus. For the next few weeks, there were hilarious letters to the editor. One satiric letterw wrote he was going hijack a plane with a cooler full of ice phallus. As someone commented on another site, when conservatives complain about a work of art they are charged as being philistines because art suppose to be challenging. Now we have a whole bunch of leftist, mostly lesbos, and they are complaining about a work of art challenging them.


28 posted on 02/06/2014 8:12:33 AM PST by C19fan
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To: yldstrk

“Oonderbars”? LOL!


29 posted on 02/06/2014 8:12:38 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The right" is a gelatinous mass of contradiction.)
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To: Savage Beast

Maybe the artist is Lisa’s relative or boyfriend.


30 posted on 02/06/2014 8:13:08 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The right" is a gelatinous mass of contradiction.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Only 3 that I know of still exist, Hampden Sydney, Wabash, and Morehouse. Morehouse is traditionally black.

However some would add Jewish yeshiva and rabbinical schools to the list. There are quite a few of those.

My son graduated from Hampden Sydney.


31 posted on 02/06/2014 8:13:22 AM PST by kalee
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He looks like a homo. They should get rid of it, art or not.


32 posted on 02/06/2014 8:13:57 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Benito Cereno

At first I was thinking “Bill Clinton pick up the white courtesty telephone” but she may be more Hillary’s type....


33 posted on 02/06/2014 8:14:07 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: King_Corey
"These are little girls, not adult enough to deal with a statue."

Seems to me they are dealing with it just fine. They are asking politely for it to be removed.

34 posted on 02/06/2014 8:14:30 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: King_Corey
"These are little girls, not adult enough to deal with a statue."

Seems to me they are dealing with it just fine. They are asking politely for it to be removed.

35 posted on 02/06/2014 8:14:33 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Cool....Hillary’s alma mater


36 posted on 02/06/2014 8:15:14 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What a joke. It’s a creepy statue but it has nothing to do with patriarchy/male domination/glass ceiling/all sex is rape/ bull$h!t pushed by man-hating feminazis.


37 posted on 02/06/2014 8:15:33 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: tx_eggman

Caption: My wife won’t launder my clothes thanks to Hillary.


38 posted on 02/06/2014 8:16:25 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Saw that on the local Boston news last night.The report said that some students object to it because it causes one to think of "sexual assault".I kid you not! It's weird...weird beyond belief,in fact.IMO that's reason enough to get rid of it.

But *sexual assault*? Gimme a break!

39 posted on 02/06/2014 8:16:32 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

There is a large school of modern art that think the purpose of art is to piss off the largest number of people possible.


40 posted on 02/06/2014 8:16:36 AM PST by DManA
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