Sorry for the art-history hijack, but why, exactly, is Lady Liberty traditionally depicted with a boob hanging out? Some kind of “nurturing the nascent nation” motherhood thing? I’d never really thought about it before now.
I laughed. I’m not proud.
So that men will look at the statue. Think I’m wrong? How many of you guys went looking for the Janet Jackson picture online? Or Lucy Lawless?
Ah. Now I remember where I’ve seen that pose before. Heck with the dog’s leash and a thumb’s up; what she really needs is a grocery bag with a baguette and some celery sticking out of the top.
Check it out, it IS Charlie’s Angels!
The female in the statue looks a tad anorexic, and the pose could be a bit better, but other than that, there’s nothing particularly offensive about it IMO.
I’m a bit more offended that the senator took the focus off what this was supposed to be (a memorial to female veterans) and used it to do a little politicking for herself.
Looks to me like she was on the receiving end of that Trinity-style kick…
Maybe they should have put a dismembered penis in one hand, the matching sack in the other, and the butcher knife that removed them could be in her teeth…
No kidding.
Plus, and this just might be me, I’d never look at that and think “ah, women in wartime” nor “Lady Liberty.” But instead “What is that supposed to be?” which makes it more of an artistic failure than offensive.
There’s not even anything for Ashcroft to cover up!
she looks like she wants to go sailing on the lake. that is a rather nautical looking dress.
perhaps a more fierce looking woman holding a shield or cross bow or something?
It is not the attire, it is that pose . She looks like she is flirting at a cocktail party, not inspiring women to battle.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Betty Crocker in bronze flanked on her right by Betty Crocker as Davie Crockett and on the left by Betty Crocker as The Terminator.
That sucker is unattractive, awkward and lacking in any significant aesthetic content. Don’t you just love committee selected public art? Try comparing this to the monument to Col Shaw and the 52d(?) Mass in front of the Statehouse in Boston, or the Vietnam Memorial (less representational statuary) or even to the Grant Monument on the Mall in front of the Capitol (the artillery gun team all falling down in a pile).
This sucker is just about as pedestrian and unimaginative as they come. I’ve seen GAR monuments (the volunteer at rest, the volunteer alert, the volunteer clearing his throat, the volunteer picking his nose, etc) that are more moving and attractive.
The artist is no Bartholdi, but who is, these days? Not me, not you.
Well, Queen Charlotte was notoriously ugly. That’s actually a rather flattering portrait.
I kinda like the statue (of the lady veteran, not QC). She looks like a girl scout in the 1930s.
Victoria’s Secret model? No freaking way.
Here’s a pic of her with 2 of her 15 kids.
She may not have been a looker, but what a producer!
As a modern woman, she chose to hyphenate her last name. She’d now Betty Crocker-Crockett.
Wow, she doesn’t look so bad in those portraits. She reminds me of CJ in West Wing, and CJ is hot.
Well, Lady Liberty does have an uhealthy gray pallor – perhaps that’s the gripe.
Quenn Charlotte looks like she just got both barrels of a 12-guage in the gut.
Yes, and what’s with that scarf draped around and over her arms? Seems unmilitary, and would be a nuisance for someone so busy carrying a torch or whatever.