"Statue of Guy in His Underwear Causes Brief Controversy at Wellesley College"

[marions ghost]

112. Consider that:

#1 --It's art. It is NOT real. Duh but Important Point. NOT real.

#2 --It is meant to provoke discussion. Check.

#3 --It is not offensive except that it brings up disturbing fears in some--fears which are normal but usually suppressed. Others have no fear but feel a twinge of "poor thing." It's that crossover between Person and Thing that is so interesting. And many go sleepwalking through life, unable to see.

#4 --There are so many ugly and distasteful things in all our fields of view every time we leave our doors or go out on the internets. But we have no control over them. We have to cope.

#5 --It's temporary.

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These young women who have a problem with this need to get exposed to art more often. I don't say that someone who has had a bad experience with men should LIKE this. Nobody has to like it. But they should be mature enough to deal with it's existence in the small space of the body in which all of us find ourselves as humans.

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Personally I think it's brilliant. But I'm biased towards Art.



And (more importantly) Ambiguity.

for the sleeping man