Well between the both of you you’ve brightened up my day.
I think you read far to much into what appears to be a drunken stunt.
What would have been the subtext of (the fairly common occurrence of) fondling the bulls nuts?
Humans, of all genders, are idiots when drunk. Put a statue anywhere of anything and it will have stuff done to it. Alabaster tits will get fondled, marble wangs will be squeezed, bronze bollocks will be rubbed. I myself have doodled glasses, a moustache and swastika tattoos on a picture of John Prescott. Not a political act, merely a fun pastime and something to do with a pen whilst talking on the phone. (and I wasn’t even drunk). Sometimes a silly act is exactly that and no more.
It seems like recreational outrage to me and one of the many reasons why I don’t do social media at all. I have limited capacity to give a shit about the many truly bad things in the world and this comes way, way down on the list. I’ll bow to no-one in my practical support of the rights and equality of women and that includes me treating issues of supposed offence in exactly the same way.
I wouldn’t want to be friends with anyone who didn’t think there was a difference between grinding his dick on a statue and grinding his dick on a little girl.
Oh yeah, humans are crude idiots - it always funny to see an old bronze statue and see how the two rubbed spots are their nose and their junk.
Having said that, I have no issue with the photo of the WSt Bro being highlighted as a commentary, however random it was. Why not point out what an idiot he looks like and how cluelessly he makes the basic point of the statue? I don’t need to clutch my pearls, but I can point the photo out to my kids and we all laugh at the idiot and move on.
Moving on.
Blaming the artist or anyone else besides the criminal is a bit like blaming an architect because someone graffitied their building.
Well said, I think the world would be a much better place if more people took that approach.
and as you say…moving on.
OP: If your mom/sister/wife was standing on a bus/subway and a stranger mashed his member against her backside, would you blame her for riding public transportation?
Time moves on, people’s perceptions shift with the times, such is the nature of progress. The Western world grows weary of the seemingly universal, (Drunken) Boys will be Boys!, defence.
Just no! This is 2017, the age of social media. You’re a grown ass man. Your drunkeness does NOT excuse your base and crude behaviour in a public space. You want carte blanc to behave like a frat boy because you have testosterone and liquor in your veins? Sorry, Times are a changing!
What that? It’s gone viral, there’s pushback, man suffers consequences? GOOD! I hope he loses his job. And this act sticks to him like glue.
Oh, why give a fuck about any of this? Jesus Christ.
Just out of interest, do you watch Black Mirror?
I’m cool with that 
There’s a difference, of course. But neither speaks well of the performer.
I’m pretty sure the statue is not a real person
…or…hang on a minute… am I badly mistaken on this? I see those painted idiots on London’s south bank in gold film and foil, standing still and begging for coins but I was reliably informed they are not actually the same as real statues…shit…are we through the looking glass on this one guys?
That reminds me of my next work of art: a bobblehead of Donald Trump, submerged in urine.
It’ll be called, “Piss Antichrist.” 
I’m not grokking this. So the statue needed protecting, but ISTM that what you’re saying is that what really needed protecting was the stupid idiot who humped it, that if the statue was unprotected, it should have been a ‘safe space,’ protected from the reactions of people out on the Internets. (Bad, bad Web denizens, to not respect this guy’s safe space!)
And of course, the people out on the Internets reacting to this bozo should have a ‘safe space’ where they should be protected from OPs such as yours. Go to your corner, now!
Why is there no outrage over all the tourists molesting the bull’s balls? That’s animal cruelty!
Some things are so outrageous you don’t realize you don’t give a fuck about them until you see a bunch of people bitching on the internet.
I think I was all of five years old when I learned to not touch statues. You wouldn’t go into a museum and touch all the paintings, right?
Why are we blaming anybody? Nobody was hurt, no property was harmed. It was as if nothing happened, because, guess what? Nothing happened.
A person touched an inanimate object in the street at night. This is a non-story. Spitting on the ground is more offensive than this. Heck, saying “Heck” is more offensive than this.
To you. To those of who are affected by misogyny it’s just another example of the attitude some assholes enjoy that many of us live with. You can dismiss it or take a moment to see the world through someone else’s eyes.
What’s even more noteworthy is that the OP’s response to the guy’s behavior is exactly what is said when women are sexually harassed or assaulted.
Silly old me, I’ll continue to fight for the rights of women.
You want to protect inanimate objects? Good for you. Maybe don’t leave them out in the streets at night around a bunch of drunks, though.
If the statue of the bull had been put in place to raise awareness of animal cruelty, then, yes, any outrage over tourists molesting the bull’s balls would be reasonable. But the the statue was not raised for that purpose, which is why you don’t see any outrage to such activities.
On the other hand, the statue of the girl was put in place exactly to raise awareness of International Women’s Day, which at its core is meant to combat the exact type of dismissive behavior towards women that the guy was photographed doing.
I’m not sure how you (and other posters defending this guy’s actions) don’t see this difference.