Posted on 07/31/2007 6:59:44 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
On Sarasota's North Tamiami Trail, two mannequins are causing controversy.
Some people say they're offensive.
The man who put up the display says he wanted to offend his neighbors and the city of Sarasota.
People have recently sent e-mails to Sarasota city commissioners asking for help to please have this man take these mannequins down.
But city commissioners say, believe it or not, he's not violating any city code.
The owner of this now empty building... commonly referred to as the mirrored house... has put these female mannequins on display in the window.
Arnold Herbst, a neighbor to the windows, says "one day, he'll put the tops on the mannequins, the next day he'll just take them down."
Herbst lives in the neighborhood and says the women are often placed in different sexual positions.
(Excerpt) Read more at mysuncoast.com ...
Thanks. My wife has a problem with some of the stuff they do on the show. But my retort is usually; At the end, the still love each other.
I just ate-stop that!
You're just askin' for a Helen pic...
If they are on a motorbike, are they harlequins?
He's putting them in store windows now, Peg!
IMHO, Americans in general have a bizarre hangup when it comes to nakedness. Guns, violence, blood, destruction, drugs, and all manner of perversion are perfectly OK for kids to watch on TV, but a naked body is shunned and protested. Now we can't even allow them to see a naked mannequin? Obviously some people don't have enough to worry about.
Well, there are many people who are offended, whether you like it or not, and it is a disgusting, petty, childish thing for a grown man to do -- offend an entire neighborhood just because he can't get the town council to issue him a permit to open a beauty parlor(?)across the street from an elementary school. It takes a special kind of twisted pervert to do that.
By the way, before you start with a bunch of false assumption about me -- naked mannequins per se do not offend me; but putting them in obviously "sexual" positions for kids to see does.
The man is a lowlife pig.
“Can I take my 7yr. old to it?”
Here is a detailed review.
http://www.pluggedin.com/videos/2007/Q3/SimpsonsMovie.aspx
www.pluggedin.com reviews new releases and will tell you postive/negative, language, sexual content. Then you can decide for yourself if it is something you want your kids to see. It has been a great resource for us.
Wow, talk about the archives. He’s now 10 and we stopped watching the Simpsons years ago. What made you go back to this post?
Lol, I was paying attention to the date. I did a search for something relevant to today and this article came up. Sorry! *blushes*
I had no idea that the Simpson’s movie came out that long ago. So did you go see it?
WASN’T paying attention to the date.
No. I think my wife does use that website for the very limited number of movies we see.
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