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I don't think she's complaining
Actually, she is complaining. Which is her right to.

I don't particularly like the sculpture, but not because of the tiny nude woman capping it off. And which I don't think should be controversial.
 

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Actually, she is complaining. Which is her right to.

I don't particularly like the sculpture, but not because of the tiny nude woman capping it off. And which I don't think should be controversial.
Whar infuriates me is that history has a pattern of erasing women, and the decision to make Mary Wollstonecraft's statue a monument "to the movement" ignores her unique character and achievements. This monument intended to honor her instead reduces her to an archetype to stand in for masses who should be celebrated, but it ignores the real person it should represent.

Nelson's Column doesn't have a random generic naked sailor on it. The Lincoln Memorial doesn't have an idealized naked Union soldier on it. Mary Wollstonecraft's monument should have her on it as she was, not idealized and disrobed.
 

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This could go in art of history.

 
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