[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The choice to display a prominent historical female thinker who wrote extensively on modesty, and appreciating the female mind over the female form, as a naked statue that accentuates the genitals and breasts, has clear connotations with "woman as the female form", Earth Mother, a vehicle for reproduction. As I said before - even if it can be interpreted differently - you're not going to convince me that a professional artist didn't anticipate that interpretation and therefore it is a conscious choice. It would be EXACTLY the same if an artist chose to depict a philosopher who talked of the nature of men as a bare-chested bodybuilder with his knob out. It has implications, they are open to interpretation, but are nonetheless deliberate on the part of the artist because they know what they're doing. If the subject is the artist thrmself, or the subject is a knowing participant, that's one thing but in this instance it's botched self-indulgence from the artist.

Your oedipus comments are massively off piste but they're just your attempt at creepy ad-hominem so we'll leave that where it is.

Touchy.... you poked a stick at my thought processes I was just returning the favour.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconv...l-woman-149888

As here her radical writing is expressed in much more dynamic terms than yours I'm inclined to agree with them, as well as reject your simplistic 'earth mother' interpretation.