Posted on 11/21/2017 11:13:51 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
The iconic black-and-white photograph of a young woman being ogled by men on an Italian street has been removed from the Center City restaurant Gran Caffe L’Aquila after its owner said he recently received about two dozen complaints from customers that it depicts sexual harassment.
The poster-size image had hung along the main staircase to the second floor of the Italian restaurant, visible to a portion of its second-floor dining room through a picture window, since its opening in December 2014.
Co-owner Riccardo Longo said complaints began last month, shortly after Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein began facing public accusations of harassment, unleashing a torrent of allegations against powerful men and opening new dialogue on the subject.
Longo said customers approached him directly to express their discomfort with the Ruth Orkin print from 1951, titled “An American Girl in Italy.
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Looks more like the Bronx.................
I had a professor in college, an elderly British gent.
He told us one day that his daughter had gone to Italy and returned home complaining about the pinching and the catcalls.
He paused for a moment, and said “then again....if she had gone to Italy and NOT been pinched or catcalled, I rather suspect that she would have been quite disappointed!”
““We put it on the wall because people loved it,” Longo said. “In the matter of one month, the whole dialogue completely reversed.”
Exactly. Only stupid liberal fugly women were the ones who bitched about it and ruined it for the majority. I dont see and dint see anything wrong with the picture. I’m guessing these retards wouldnt have a problem if a fag was in the middle of the picture.
Anti-Lookists on the march.
She’s walking past a gay bar, looks like.
Yeah, my mom got pinched a lot on her visit there.
I would tell the complainers to eat elsewhere. But because he took it down, he is a big wuss. I hope his restaurant fails.
The latest cowardly women: those that won’t speak up and say they like a little ogling or forwardness from men.
These women, ironically, are also the ones who know how to handle themselves with men.
Of *course* it depicts sexual harassment. It’s a tragic painting, warning us how debased people can be. Leave it on the wall.
Don’t let an Italian hear you say that...................Capiche ?.................
MGTOW
-Walt Kelly
That photo was taken at a time when Italians actually had children...unlike today. Now they are unmarried, sexless, self-centered freakos like the rest of the west.
Feminists are just jealous because nobody ogles them...................Feminism is for ugly women so they can feel good about themselves.................
I wonder if the feminists would prefer to wear a hijab while walking down the street?
I know I’d prefer them to.....................
I mean the photo definitely depicts sexual harassment. That’s what’s interesting about the photo. It’s about a conflict between Italian culture and a more puritanical American culture, and the photo is unsettling because we don’t know where we stand in relation to the two cultures. Clearly the Italian men depicted catcalling the prudish woman are being insensitive, but at the same time, they are natural and amusing, while she appears to be aloof and unfriendly, as though her behavior may in fact be what makes catcalling her enjoyable.
It’s also worth knowing that the photograph was staged. The woman is a model, and the men were assembled for the purpose and were told to make the leering looks at her precisely to capture this dichotomy.
It comes with the territory of being a MAN, so the Human race would not die out. That is why, when we were very young, we were taught to be gentlemen and not louts. I later found some women like to be whistled and stared at, IF the man doing it was young and handsome. I failed the Handsome part.
I agree. Cowardice is not a virtue.
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