idontknowwhatsgoingoninmylife:youngromantics:afamilyoftrees:foreverfreo: Mary Wollstonecraft finally
idontknowwhatsgoingoninmylife:youngromantics:afamilyoftrees:foreverfreo: Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured with statue after 200 yearsAbsolutely hideous - she deserves better!! the fact that in her defense of this dumbass sculpture, the artist said “as far as I know, she’s more or less the shape we’d all like to be” tells me everything else I need to know about this person. what a nightmare lmfao It isn’t even supposed to be her, apparently. It’s just supposed to be an “everywoman” disappearing into a mass of “female forms”.So all you women reading this? That’s supposed to be you. Not just the lady, standing bare with no apparent drive, personality, or interests, but also the mush below her. Thin, white, very tiny, exactly the shape media has always told us men like. THAT’S apparently what we should all aspire to be. No focus on her work or achievements. Not a mind. Merely a body. Man, Mary Wollstonecraft would be so proud. Ugh. I mean, I know that this was done for publicity/controversy - I know it’s meant to be an “everywoman” with no clothes because the artist didn’t want to assign her to a time period, but the fact is Wollstonecraft was a proto-feminist in the late 18th Century. Let a statue commemorating her reflect that ffs. She wasn’t every woman - we shouldn’t pretend otherwise. -- source link