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  • Critics furious over nude statue honoring feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft(NOT Satire!!)

    11/11/2020 6:39:45 AM PST · by Kid Shelleen · 77 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/10/2020 | Tamar Lapin
    They can’t bare it. A monument honoring “mother of feminism” Mary Wollstonecraft was unveiled in London Tuesday — and immediately sparked backlash for containing a statue of a nude, toned female form. The silver sculpture erected in Newington Green shows a small, naked woman emerging from a swirling mass of bronze, apparently meant to represent the pioneering 18th-century writer’s spirit. The monument was the result of 10 years of work from Mary on The Green campaign, which raised the close to $190,000 required to get the sculpture made,