Posted on 10/07/2014 7:34:53 AM PDT by beaversmom
The 25ft statue which weighs 13 tonnes was placed close to Pegasus Bridge to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Whilst the Caen Memorial Museum have described it as an iconic work French feminist group Osez Le Féminisme have started a petition to have it removed.
They maintain the women in the original photo did not consent to being kissed and it was therefore a sexual assault. Alfred Eisenstaedt who took the original photo has confirmed the sailor in the photo was kissing any woman who came close to him. He is said to have had little regard for whether they were young or old, attractive or not.
The group told The Times: The sailor could have laughed with these women, hugged them, asked them if he could kiss them with joy... No, he chose to grab them with a firm hand to kiss them. It was an assault.
They claim the woman in the photo backs up their allegation, although there is some despute over her identity. Museum director Stéphane Grimaldi says the woman is Edith Shain, a nurse who maintained she had not been assaulted in any way. The feminists say she is Greta Zimmer Friedman, an Austrian whose parents died in the concentration camps.
Friedman has publicly stated that she did not ask to be kissed, she was quoted as saying: I wasnt kissing him. He was kissing me. However, she never made a complaint against the sailor, and in fact remained friends with him afterwards. The two met up on several occasions.
The name of the statue is a reference to the demand by Allied Forces that Axis Powers surrender without any conditions. This was achieved in 1945 after heavy casualties were inflicted on both sides. One of the bloodiest days of the conflict was...
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They don't let a good meme fall by the wayside. If you can find that thread easily, I would be interested in seeing it.
I didn’t see her beating the guy to let her go - she grabbed her skirt in modesty, to keep it from flaring out ....
***They cant get any, havent you ever seen a dyke?***
I saw the movie NOTHING SACRED yesterday. During a horseback parade of beautiful women comes one whom the announcer declares...”And here we have Miss Amsterdam who saved Holland when she stuck her finger in the dyke!”
I almost burst out laughing! Talk bout slipping one past the Hays Code.
They’re just jealous no man wants to kiss THEM. Yuck.
She was in shock. Don’t blame the victim and say how she should have handled the situation. She had PTSD for the rest of her life.
Hey, do can I channel leftist toonism great or what?
LOL’s
If you see the good and as criminal and the depraved as progress you have it. Anybody can take the test with the following photo:
This is a feminist example of violence and aggression against women.This is the postmodernist example of the American patriarchal system oppressing women.
Feminists (closeted or in-your-face lesbians, in other words) objecting to a male on female kiss? Who’d a thunk it? < /sarc >
Liberalism is truly a mental disease.
And the victorious Russians got even by raping their way through Germany at war's end.
Sacrebleu!
Well, the feminists don't care about that. It's just the nasty sailor kissing the nurse that they want to crucify.
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