# Gasp, Fearless Girl statue in NY latest social media outrage. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 12, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006 "2017-03-12T18:10:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/1 "2017-03-12T18:10:11Z")
Did anybody not expect this to happen? This statue was placed only a few yards away from the bull with huge testicles. People have been taking inappropriate photos with the bull for many years. It’s a tourist attraction now. [![](https://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://content.newsinc.com/jpg/415/31204816/41427901.jpg?t%3D1469796180&imgrefurl=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/totally-rub-wall-st-bull-testicles-article-1.2730039&docid=xUCok3FKV0BK2M&tbnid=mSQtN9XcpSLF7M:&vet=1&w=1024&h=576&source=sh/x/im) ](https://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://content.newsinc.com/jpg/415/31204816/41427901.jpg?t%3D1469796180&imgrefurl=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/totally-rub-wall-st-bull-testicles-article-1.2730039&docid=xUCok3FKV0BK2M&tbnid=mSQtN9XcpSLF7M:&vet=1&w=1024&h=576&source=sh/x/im) So some drunk idiot puts a knit hat on the Fearless Girl statue and humps it. Inappropriate? Absolutely. Unexpected? Nope. Statues are magnets for stupid drunken behavior and pigeon droppings. Good thing they are metal objects and not real. Next time use some common sense and put railings around statues that require protection and a guard. Or better yet don’t use kids as model for public statues that will get rediculed by drunks. Anyway, pull up a chair and watch social media lose it’s mind for a few days. It’s a nice diversion from Trump outrage. [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/photo-wall-street-creep-humping-feminist-statue-viral-article-1.2995245](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/photo-wall-street-creep-humping-feminist-statue-viral-article-1.2995245) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/2 "2017-03-12T18:14:30Z")
I assume you feel the same way about Piss Christ–i.e., you do not even understand why anyone would be upset? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/3 "2017-03-12T18:18:22Z")
I know the action is inappropriate. Statues draw this kind of behavior. The artist should have known better than to use a kid. Now they’ll have to encase this thing in a protective display box. Just to keep the drunks away. Statues get humped all the time. Or people pose with their hand on the statue’s ass. They just seem to draw that kind of immature attention. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/4 "2017-03-12T18:20:01Z")
:rolleyes: Yep, grown man grinding against the image of a young girl. Nothing gross there. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/5 "2017-03-12T18:20:31Z")
Artists who wish to depict feminism shouldn’t sculpt girls because douchey Wall St. guys will molest them? I think maybe you have something a little backwards here. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/6 "2017-03-12T18:23:10Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > :rolleyes: > > Yep, grown man grinding against the image of a young girl. Nothing gross there. How many times do I have to say it’s inappropriate? Do you think a drunk at midnight gives a shit? Heck he’ll piss on it next time. You gotta think ahead before you put something on display in public. Pull your head out of the sand and consider what happens at midnight. If it’s a sensitive subject than protect it. Put a display case over it. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/7 "2017-03-12T18:25:03Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Next time use some common sense and put railings around statues that require protection and a guard. Or better yet don’t use kids as model for public statues that will get rediculed by drunks. I don’t think that’s the answer. Why should there not be statues of children? Just because there are douchbags in the world? No. Sorry, no. Art is important. Art can be quite evocative and meaningful as I think this statue of the young girl is. A statue like that doesn’t need an armed guard or a fence around it. What’s needed is less fuck-wits in the world. But, unfortunately, they have a right to exist and to express their juvenile buffoonery. And the rest of us have a right to find them vacuous. Don’t take the art to task. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/8 "2017-03-12T18:32:28Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > How many times do I have to say it’s inappropriate? > > Do you think a drunk at midnight gives a shit? > Heck he’ll piss on it next time. > > You gotta think ahead before you put something on display in public. Pull your head out of the sand and consider what happens at midnight. > > If it’s a sensitive subject than protect it. Put a display case over it. Yes there is no reason to expect drunk men not to grind on statues of children. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/9 "2017-03-12T18:40:05Z")
Wait until you see what drunk women do to that statue. 🙂 I just hope no one vandalizes it. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/10 "2017-03-12T18:43:26Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > If it’s a sensitive subject than protect it. Put a display case over it. How low has our society sunk that a a statue of a fully-clothed girl in a non-provocative pose would be considered “a sensitive subject”? Hell, we better burn all the books, too. Because… what if a book gave somebody unpalatable thoughts about children or women or dogs or the Senate or Bobby Fischer? Better not chance it. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/11 "2017-03-12T19:07:47Z")
I’m not worried about any sanctity of the statue, but I sure wouldn’t want to be friends with anyone who thought a “joke” was pretending to grind his dick on little girls. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/12 "2017-03-12T19:09:39Z")
That’s hilarious! Is it inappropriate? possibly…it is definitely hilarious though. (probably _because_ it is inappropriate) ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/13 "2017-03-12T19:10:16Z")
Why put the protective case? The statue hasn’t been hurt. The only person affected is the drunk who will now probably lose his nob and a fair number of friends. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/14 "2017-03-12T19:17:43Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > lose his nob. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/15 "2017-03-12T19:24:42Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > How many times do I have to say it’s inappropriate? > > Do you think a drunk at midnight gives a shit? > Heck he’ll piss on it next time. > > You gotta think ahead before you put something on display in public. Pull your head out of the sand and consider what happens at midnight. > > If it’s a sensitive subject than protect it. Put a display case over it. So the guy has done the inappropriate thing, but it was the artist job to prevent it, by not sculpting a young girl in the first place? This is exactly why we need feminism. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/16 "2017-03-12T19:35:35Z")
How much more appropriate would it have been if the statue was a full grown woman? None more. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/17 "2017-03-12T19:46:54Z")
So, a drunk guy humped a symbol for International Women’s Day. Putting aside that the statue is of a child, can no one understand how that may be different than touching the Wall Street Bull’s balls? ---
**Author:** ![Corry\_El](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Corry\_El](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corry_El)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/18 "2017-03-12T19:50:04Z")
The other factor which didn’t used to enter is as much is that masses of people have now heard of this, which wouldn’t have been the case even relatively recently. Guy is obviously a complete ass, was very drunk or some combination. But on with life, for me. Why should it make so much more difference to me now than if it happened ten years ago, which it certainly could have, and I’d never heard of it? Note, I would not have the same attitude toward some hypothetical famine that killed millions but the media wasn’t interested in covering so I somehow never heard of it, or even rape of one real person. This is drunken shenanigans by a douche. And I go from indifference to opposition to the cyber mob when they start with stuff about ‘this is the problem with Wall Street’ or ‘men’, either or both of which may have systematic problems, but again this is one d’bag. Not talking about responses here particularly BTW, but ones I’ve seen on social media: the constant contest to see who can be most outraged and take out the most ridiculously over broad brush in reaction to everything. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/19 "2017-03-12T19:55:33Z")
I see a problem with blaming the artist instead of the douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006/20 "2017-03-12T20:25:27Z")
This is why we can’t have nice things. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gasp-fearless-girl-statue-in-ny-latest-social-media-outrage/782006.md?page=2)