epistolizer
09-18-2005, 07:38 AM
Once upon a time, the British use to be renowned for their sense of propriety and decorum. Now it seems, however, they are letting it all hang out just like all the other nations of the decadent West.
Trafalgar Square is, to put it most simply, a square in central London commemorating the Battle of Trafalgar. Makes you wonder then why then they have decided to place a statue of a disabled, pregnant naked lady amidst this memorial to great military heroes.
One characteristic of all decaying nations is the rush to distance themselves from the values of their pasts. As such, the Mayor of London, terrorist sympathizer Ken Livingstone, has expressed a desire to have many of the statues of the historical greats taken down and replaced with those of personalities more relevant to the 21st century, this no doubt being a euphemism for the purposes of honoring perverts and deviants.
For yet another characteristic of declining cultures is an unseemly public obsession with the sexual and abnormal. The nude is being justified in part to serve as a balance to "triumphant male statuary" dominating the park, that classification providing a great deal of insight to the deviant creating the sculpture who at one time crafted a replica of his head made of 4.5 liters of his own frozen blood.
<p>But if that was the only reason, why not make a statue of this lady with some cloths on? We are further told of the need of the statue by the model herself because, "There is so much prejudice around sexuality, disability, femininity and pregnancy..."
<p>Maybe so, but shouldn't her naked beauty be something only for her husband to behold and relish? If anything, in light of so many pregnant women thrusting their bear bellies into plain view stretch marks and all (i.e. the Dove Soap hussies), a little more Victorian restraint might do us some good with more being left to the imagination once again.
Monuments such as Trafalgar Square commemorate noble deeds undertaken in honor of God and country. *But had these men seen what the future was to hold, you are forced to stop and wonder if they would have even bothered in the first place.
Copyright 2005 by Frederick Meekins
Links:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&si d=aLxX2Tcz1e8Q (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aLxX2Tcz1e8Q)
http://www.manchesteronline .co.uk/men....ur.html (http://www.manchesteronline .co.uk/men/news/s/174/174256_nelson_gets_a _new_neighbour.html)
Trafalgar Square is, to put it most simply, a square in central London commemorating the Battle of Trafalgar. Makes you wonder then why then they have decided to place a statue of a disabled, pregnant naked lady amidst this memorial to great military heroes.
One characteristic of all decaying nations is the rush to distance themselves from the values of their pasts. As such, the Mayor of London, terrorist sympathizer Ken Livingstone, has expressed a desire to have many of the statues of the historical greats taken down and replaced with those of personalities more relevant to the 21st century, this no doubt being a euphemism for the purposes of honoring perverts and deviants.
For yet another characteristic of declining cultures is an unseemly public obsession with the sexual and abnormal. The nude is being justified in part to serve as a balance to "triumphant male statuary" dominating the park, that classification providing a great deal of insight to the deviant creating the sculpture who at one time crafted a replica of his head made of 4.5 liters of his own frozen blood.
<p>But if that was the only reason, why not make a statue of this lady with some cloths on? We are further told of the need of the statue by the model herself because, "There is so much prejudice around sexuality, disability, femininity and pregnancy..."
<p>Maybe so, but shouldn't her naked beauty be something only for her husband to behold and relish? If anything, in light of so many pregnant women thrusting their bear bellies into plain view stretch marks and all (i.e. the Dove Soap hussies), a little more Victorian restraint might do us some good with more being left to the imagination once again.
Monuments such as Trafalgar Square commemorate noble deeds undertaken in honor of God and country. *But had these men seen what the future was to hold, you are forced to stop and wonder if they would have even bothered in the first place.
Copyright 2005 by Frederick Meekins
Links:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&si d=aLxX2Tcz1e8Q (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aLxX2Tcz1e8Q)
http://www.manchesteronline .co.uk/men....ur.html (http://www.manchesteronline .co.uk/men/news/s/174/174256_nelson_gets_a _new_neighbour.html)