Cover UP!!

[Nemrod]

Nemrod, although I happen to agree with your sentiments in general, I think you were a little over-sensitive on this one. Atticus' post was not about you - it was about the mistaken assumption of other posts about this (covering with a bikini at Chessington) happened in America...

No, you see, that is just it, I made no assumption.

And the post I quoted was authored in the UK accusing North Americans of being prudes when the statue with a bra is in the UK.

The US is not a "beach" country, apparently nobody has been to South Beach or Fire Island? You can drive across the UK in a few hours, there are people in North America who have never seen a bikini in real life as it does ride well on their quarter horse much less a beach and DGAD. If this makes them prudes, I guess that got good company in the UK.

I suppose if I crossed a pass in the Tetons and came upon a Mermaid statue with a bikini top, I might look at it also and wonder a bit what going on, other than that, yawn, seen those before, been there, done that, next.

Y'all have me confused, never mind, not worth the fuss. Must be the pain killers.

N

 

[D_B]

I will stick with what I said. Yes, I am serious, it is feminism, I disagree with your analysis, the "problem" was not that the statue had exposed breasts, but that the men and boys were looking at them. This upset the women who worked there, oh, my, those horrible men and boys are looking at her breasts!!!!!! That is feminism in action, not Christianity.
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N

Maybe there is some assumption going on here ?

 

[Nemrod]

Maybe there is some assumption going on here ?

Not really, if you read he press that is exactly what the circumstance was, men and boys looking at a naked statue getting all the UK staff and guests in a huff at those horrible little boys looking at the concrete breasts.

I am half under on pain killers, and this is all you got, yawn.

The Greeks put fig leaves on their male statues a few centuries before there were Christians, Muslims or prudish Americans, must be a Euro thing, the fig leaves?

Maybe they should have gone with seashells, isn't that what the Littlest Mermaid wore?

 

[D_B]

I'm sorry, but when I did a search all I found was the, already posted, press release and the quote, and nothing more

 

[FritzCat66]

Many Americans probably don't remember that, in 2002, United States [-]Nazi[/-] Attorney General John A$$croft didn't like the fact that the statue representing Justice in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice displayed a naked breast - so in a fit of backward prudishness, he spent $8000 of our tax money to cover up the statue's breasts with blue drapes... apparently completely unaware of the metaphor of COVERING UP JUSTICE for the sake of making himself look "more conservative" on camera.