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.
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!!
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.
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 The group that originally made it got all annoyed when someone else appropirated it and put it somewhere else.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.
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…
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!
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.
