There is nothing more infuriating than Post-Impressionistic Tahitian Might-Be-Lesbians:
A painting at the Gauguin exhibit at the National Gallery was attacked last week by a gallery visitor, provoking considerable commotion, according to other museum visitors and gallery officials.
Screaming “This is evil,” a woman tried to pull Gauguin’s “Two Tahitian Women” from a gallery wall Friday and banged on the picture’s clear plastic covering, said Pamela Degotardi of New York, who was there.
“She was really pounding it with her fists,” Degotardi said. “It was like this weird surreal scene that one doesn’t expect at the National Gallery.”
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In the painting, both breasts of one woman are exposed, as is one of the second woman’s breasts.
If John Ashcroft was still around, those ladies would be wearing hoodies of some sort by now.
Anyway, we say a lot of things about anti-gay wingnuts, but we have never, to my knowledge, accused them of being stable.
The church leadership points people in this direction and then goes “Who, me?” when somebody calls them out on having done the pointing.
instead of judging them by American standards for modesty, how about thinking about the fact that maybe a girl showing her boobs in Tahitian culture might not be considered a sexual act, and therefor in this context not a lesbian act? They might even be SISTERS and don’t care about being topless in front of one another.
I’d be more concerned about getting whatever’s in that dish all over my boobs.
These people always see sex where there isn’t any.
“These people always see sex where there isn’t any”
Maybe that’s why the number 666 is so terrifying:
When you say it out loud, “six six six” sounds
frighteningly close to “sex sex sex.”
In reading more about this, the woman is clearly deranged. I’m not sure it has so much to do with morality as lack of meds.
Oh my.
she sees a gauguin featuring two native women who, at the time, were probably quite native, and she sees a mad lesbian sex scene?
she easily crossed the line from project to protest, or viced versa.
I don’t see anything connecting her attack, any ‘Christian’ anything… or any ‘gay’ anything… at all.?
Perhaps she’s upset that one tit was still covered?
Maybe she’s a mastectomy survivor and she wigged out seeing two healthy breasts?
Maybe she’s a garden variety schizo?
How on Earth do you make any type of anti-gay, pro-Christian jump of any kind here?
The fact that she referred to it as “evil” was a tip-off.
I’m somewhat with Rod on this one; it might just be derangement rather than opposition to anything gay. They could have seen the nudity alone as being evil. They could have seen the painting as showing two straight women displaying themselves sexually and declaring THAT to be “evil.”
And they might not be Christian, they could be a Moonie as far as we know.
Some people just don’t like boobies
From further reports it looks like she could allegedly be *both* anti-gay and mentally ill.
She is quoted as saying the painting is “very homosexual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned … I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you.”
Source:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/04/gauguin-paintings-attacker-isnt-the-only-crazy-one.html
Oh, boy. She could use help from so-called Obamacare. But, I’m quite sure she’s against that too.
Extra security has been ordered for the Mona Lisa. That is a muffdiver smile if ever there was one.
I say we should all buy huge prints of this and post them near our Fundi-mentalist churches and see if they all go insane. Then we can have them legally declared insane and institutionalize them.
While wearing their “str8t jackets”, they would all be so much nicer if they had Abilify or something comparable along with their shuffle board and bingo.
My interpretation is that the one on the right is praying that the poo-poo platter that her lesbian lover made for the L Word kegger party is a tasty crowd-pleaser.
Emily said “These people always see sex where there isn’t any.”.
LOL, that’s hilarious coming from you! You’re the one who regularly gets all uptight about, for example, Box Turtle Bulletin displaying an ordinary picture of a football player, complaining about the constant homoeroticism when there isn’t any.
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/11/24/28059
Pardon me for Fristing but the follow up article makes it clear this woman is either schizophrenic or REALLY good at faking it:
“I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you.”
Delurking just to say “Whaaaaaat.”
If we started to destroy every work of art that we don’t like because of the author’s personal life then there would be no arts left. I hope this woman will get the mental health treatment now that she’s made the news.