# Was it right to destroy Harvard's giant snow phallus? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 28, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147 "2003-02-28T15:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbe5ce/32.png) [@X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X_Slayer_ALE)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/21 "2003-02-28T20:57:42Z")
It wouldve been better if the feminists sliced the ice sculpture in half and left the 2 peices where they lay. That wouldve sent a powerful “Lorena Bobbit” message. Tear down a snow sculpture made on public domain with no permission or permit? Sure why not. If the boys were free to make it, then the feminists were free to tear it down. Make the tearing down some form of political, moralistic or sexist statement? very bad form. It was made in jest. My opinion is that those feminists had an icicle up their ass not a 9 foot snow penis. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/22 "2003-02-28T21:52:28Z")
“women do not need to be reminded of the power of male genitalia.” Does that mean that she’ll agree, 35 years from now when her husband starts flagging, not to remind him of his lack therof? Actually, maybe that penis belongs to this fellow, which explains what he was praying for: [http://www.peteena.com/HANDS.HTM](http://www.peteena.com/HANDS.HTM) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/23 "2003-02-28T22:17:50Z")
> [@](#): > > “women do not need to be reminded of the power of male genitalia.” She has a point! From now on, I think all missiles should be vagina-shaped. Swords, too. ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/24 "2003-02-28T22:51:08Z")
Maybe we’ll see future winter sculptures at Harvard. The battle of of the gonads in ever-enlarging, detailed, and creative forms. Women also have the option of detailing snow breasts, and pregnant tummies to halt the global domination of the male member. Harvard will become a steamy soup of lascivious rebellion at last!! ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/25 "2003-02-28T22:58:02Z")
Concerned students and faculty should have had a big gathering, with speeches and signs, where they gave the penis a vasectomy and chemically castrated it for raping the, ah, snow women. Dammit, attacking the poor snow penis, without snow due process, is a snow crime no matter how you slice it. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/26 "2003-02-28T23:02:59Z")
There snow justice! ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/27 "2003-02-28T23:06:21Z")
GIANT snow women, one would hope. Wife gets home, hears about controversy, says “let me see.” **Beagle** clicks handy Crimson photo link for wife. Wife sees penis. The verdick, _Hmmmm. long pause That’s a good penis._ ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/28 "2003-02-28T23:19:21Z")
Any feminist worth her salt would have just jumped on and – - looks up \* Oh crap, this is in GD? Never mind that. Seriously, this reminds me a bit of the “monolith” sculpture that was mysteriously appearing in one place and another a couple years ago in Seattle. The group that originally made it got all annoyed when someone else appropirated it and put it somewhere else. Wake up, guys, if you erect (_chortle_) a sculpture in a public place without getting permission or claiming ownership to it, _expect_ it to get taken down or moved. Same rule applies here. There’s nothing wrong with knocking down the snow cock if you feel like it. Now, the _reason_ the girls gave for knocking it down was pretty stupid in its own right. They’re doing their own cause a disservice in two ways: they’re making themselves look like Giuliani trying to ban “offensive” art exhibits in New York, and they’re generating more publicity for that big threatening piece of male dominance. If they’d said, “We knocked it down 'cos it was fun!” it would have been a non-story. Now they’ve escalated it, and its their own fault. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/29 "2003-02-28T23:24:20Z")
Did anybody read the caption underneath the photo? > [@](#): > > \*\*A snow sculpture, iced to prevent shrinking, was built in the Tercentary Theater on the night of Monday, February 10, 2003. \*\* :eek: I always thought that icing was the main cause of shrinkage! Marc ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/30 "2003-02-28T23:32:36Z")
How about “click to enlarge”? ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/31 "2003-03-01T05:26:51Z")
Jeezus, December – I was drinking my nightly warm milk, my keyboard is a wreck – _watch that crap._😃 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by december \* > \*\*There snow justice! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/32 "2003-03-01T06:28:26Z")
I wonder what they would say about [this residential subdivision](http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=59572)? ---
**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/33 "2003-03-01T06:29:52Z")
Bah! It’s not even erect. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/34 "2003-03-01T06:53:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elmwood \* > \*\*I wonder what they would say about [this residential subdivision](http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=59572)? \*\* eww! ---
**Author:** ![Mothchunks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@Mothchunks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mothchunks)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/35 "2003-03-01T15:54:06Z")
I just picture these two, um, “feminists” wielding shovels like frenzied amazons, attacking the very effigy of their hatred. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_outta\_kansas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@straight\_outta\_kansas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_outta_kansas)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/36 "2003-03-01T16:49:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*Right or wrong? If you erect (hee hee) any sort of large structure on a campus square made out of snow, expect it to get knocked down. The funny thing is that if the girls had just said something like, “We just thought it would be fun to knock it down,” they wouldn’t have caught much flak for it at all. \*\* I’d have to agree. It also would not have been a big deal if it had been a giant, veined snowman. Sure, some people might have been disappointed that their creation got destroyed, but that’s what happens when you work in snow in public places, kids. Same goes for the phallus. I figure just _making_ the damn thing should have been satisfaction enough… ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/37 "2003-03-01T17:08:36Z")
Just wanted to say that Harvard, while not like NYU, is a very urban campus with paths bisecting most of it through which the populace of Cambridge, including mommies with strollers, is apt to wander through to get from Point A to Point B. If the sculpture had been built in the Yard in a place where passersby could see it, that would have been very tasteless. But the theater is out of the way–you have to plan to go there, so it’s OK by me. And I agree–the poor phallus wasn’t DOING anything, it wasn’t attacking anyone, it was just sitting there happy and proud. If it’s not where little kids and the people going to Memorial Church have to climb over it, leave it alone! ---
**Author:** ![Tee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Tee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tee)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/38 "2003-03-01T17:42:17Z")
I thought it was funny. Mothchunks: \* I just picture these two, um, “feminists” wielding shovels like frenzied amazons, attacking the very effigy of their hatred. \* That’s scary. Mehitabel: _And I agree–the poor phallus wasn’t DOING anything, it wasn’t attacking anyone, it was just sitting there happy and proud. If it’s not where little kids and the people going to Memorial Church have to climb over it, leave it alone!_ And that’s a little sad. A very good play in three acts. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/39 "2003-03-01T18:01:15Z")
Perhaps the 'Cliffies were under the impression that the snow was transgendered, and required gender reassignment surgery? :smack: ::: ducks and runs ::: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147/40 "2003-03-01T19:16:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mehitabel \* > > And I agree–the poor phallus wasn’t DOING anything, it wasn’t attacking anyone, it was just sitting there happy and proud. If it’s not where little kids and the people going to Memorial Church have to climb over it, leave it alone! \*\* I wonder how women who have been raped feel about it. I wonder if you would have the same objection to an ice sculptured nativity scene. I wonder if these women realize that by their actions that they’ve implanted the vision of these artists in my mind till I die. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-right-to-destroy-harvards-giant-snow-phallus/158147.md?page=3)