Une statue de Tony Matelli, installée à l'extérieur d'un musée, a provoqué une avalanche de critiques paranoïaques de la part d'étudiantes de l'université voisine.
La statue représente un somnambule. En sous-vêtements. Il n'en fallait pas plus pour que ces dames se sentent immédiatement agressées, menacées et terrorisées. Parce qu'évidemment, un homme en bobettes ne peut être qu'une seule et unique chose: un agresseur.
Les étudiantes se sont empressées de lancer une pétition dont voici quelques extraits:
The statue of the nearly naked man on the Wellesley College campus is an entirely inappropriate and potentially harmful addition to our community that we, as members of the student body, would like removed immediately. While it appears that this statue of a nearly naked, older white man with outstretched arms is an art installation (...) this highly lifelike sculpture has, within just a few hours of its outdoor installation, become a source of apprehension, fear, and triggering thoughts regarding sexual assault for many members of our campus community. (...) it has already become a source of undue stress for many Wellesley College students (...) We request that upon its removal from a public, outdoor space, the sculpture be placed inside the Davis Museum, in a location other than the lobby.
Voici quelques-uns des commentaires qui ont été écrits sur le site de la pétition:
Our safe space– the only safe space for some of us – is being heavily compromised, and the fact that you are choosing to defend the statue before considering students’ comfort-levels is a shame.
Matelli’s statue does not speak to the power of art to inspire dialogue but rather to the power of the nearly nude, white, male body to disturb and discomfit. Even unconscious and vulnerable, he is threatening. (...) “I’m not even conscious that I’m wandering through your lady landscape,” the statue says. “I do not have to experience you. I feel about you the same way I feel about the snow. But you have to experience me, and I don’t care.”
What does this statue do if not remind us of the fact of male privilege every single time we pass it, every single time we think about it, every single time we are forced to acknowledge its presence. As if we need any more reminders.
The sculpture can traumatize and terrorize students on campus who deserve a safe place. To some extent, I personally see it as sexual harassment by proxy.
As a Wellesley alumna I am horrified that no one with decision making power at the Davis Museum stopped to consider the fear and anxiety this installation could trigger. They couldn’t have chosen a more clothed less menacing sculpture from the same exhibit to put outside? The students and larger community deserve better, they deserve consideration.
Wellesley of all places should understand how shocking and triggering a nearly naked man standing in the middle of campus could be. What emotions are attempting to be stirred by this art?? Hopefully not fear, as we women encounter frightening situations on a regular basis simply because of our gender. We do not need to be afraid, startled, or thought-provoked by a naked man in our safe space.
Les mots me manquent pour décrire la stupidité et la misandrie de ces gens.
C'est fou de constater l'état d'esprit d'assiégées de ces femmes qui se considèrent constamment traquées, opprimées de toutes parts, menacées par UNE STATUE et qui voient des menaces de viol PARTOUT. Le seul moyen de se sentir en sécurité, pour elles, est de bannir non pas seulement les hommes, mais jusqu'aux représentations artistiques des hommes!
Une statue d'un homme en bobettes devient un symbole du PRIVILÈGE MASCULIN ET DU PATRIARCAT!
C'est de la pure paranoïa.
Et pour ceux qui ignorent la signification de "triggering", il s'agit d'un terme qu'utilisent les féministes pour dénoncer des phénomènes qui les font simplement "penser" au viol. Oui, selon elles, la société est responsable d'éliminer tout ce qui serait susceptible de les faire PENSER au viol. Complètement débile.
Trouvé ici.
La statue représente un somnambule. En sous-vêtements. Il n'en fallait pas plus pour que ces dames se sentent immédiatement agressées, menacées et terrorisées. Parce qu'évidemment, un homme en bobettes ne peut être qu'une seule et unique chose: un agresseur.
Les étudiantes se sont empressées de lancer une pétition dont voici quelques extraits:
The statue of the nearly naked man on the Wellesley College campus is an entirely inappropriate and potentially harmful addition to our community that we, as members of the student body, would like removed immediately. While it appears that this statue of a nearly naked, older white man with outstretched arms is an art installation (...) this highly lifelike sculpture has, within just a few hours of its outdoor installation, become a source of apprehension, fear, and triggering thoughts regarding sexual assault for many members of our campus community. (...) it has already become a source of undue stress for many Wellesley College students (...) We request that upon its removal from a public, outdoor space, the sculpture be placed inside the Davis Museum, in a location other than the lobby.
Voici quelques-uns des commentaires qui ont été écrits sur le site de la pétition:
Our safe space– the only safe space for some of us – is being heavily compromised, and the fact that you are choosing to defend the statue before considering students’ comfort-levels is a shame.
Matelli’s statue does not speak to the power of art to inspire dialogue but rather to the power of the nearly nude, white, male body to disturb and discomfit. Even unconscious and vulnerable, he is threatening. (...) “I’m not even conscious that I’m wandering through your lady landscape,” the statue says. “I do not have to experience you. I feel about you the same way I feel about the snow. But you have to experience me, and I don’t care.”
What does this statue do if not remind us of the fact of male privilege every single time we pass it, every single time we think about it, every single time we are forced to acknowledge its presence. As if we need any more reminders.
The sculpture can traumatize and terrorize students on campus who deserve a safe place. To some extent, I personally see it as sexual harassment by proxy.
As a Wellesley alumna I am horrified that no one with decision making power at the Davis Museum stopped to consider the fear and anxiety this installation could trigger. They couldn’t have chosen a more clothed less menacing sculpture from the same exhibit to put outside? The students and larger community deserve better, they deserve consideration.
Wellesley of all places should understand how shocking and triggering a nearly naked man standing in the middle of campus could be. What emotions are attempting to be stirred by this art?? Hopefully not fear, as we women encounter frightening situations on a regular basis simply because of our gender. We do not need to be afraid, startled, or thought-provoked by a naked man in our safe space.
Les mots me manquent pour décrire la stupidité et la misandrie de ces gens.
C'est fou de constater l'état d'esprit d'assiégées de ces femmes qui se considèrent constamment traquées, opprimées de toutes parts, menacées par UNE STATUE et qui voient des menaces de viol PARTOUT. Le seul moyen de se sentir en sécurité, pour elles, est de bannir non pas seulement les hommes, mais jusqu'aux représentations artistiques des hommes!
Une statue d'un homme en bobettes devient un symbole du PRIVILÈGE MASCULIN ET DU PATRIARCAT!
C'est de la pure paranoïa.
Et pour ceux qui ignorent la signification de "triggering", il s'agit d'un terme qu'utilisent les féministes pour dénoncer des phénomènes qui les font simplement "penser" au viol. Oui, selon elles, la société est responsable d'éliminer tout ce qui serait susceptible de les faire PENSER au viol. Complètement débile.
Trouvé ici.