Meanwhile, in New York City, a #MeToo-inspired statue of Medusa — but one where she cuts the head off of Perseus instead of the other way around — is going up next week in front of a courthouse in downtown Manhattan:
whoa. a seven-foot-tall bronze sculpture of “Medusa With The Head of Perseus” will be installed across the street from 100 Centre St., Manhattan’s criminal courthouse this weekend, a commentary on the #MeToo movement https://t.co/PXDsmhVWTY pic.twitter.com/OcjL2BImgJ
— Rachel Holliday Smith (@rachelholliday) October 9, 2020
LOL:
Medusa Barbie https://t.co/Ugar3x5Bcs
— tanvi (@Tanvim) October 9, 2020
And everyone seems to be noticing the same thing:
Hey folks are you in the market for a book that describes this statue as having a “curiously blank pubis”? Would you like it to go on to offer a slightly less Swimsuit Edition image of Medusa? Just uhhhhhhhhh watch this space I guess https://t.co/eEr55wUL04
— Jess Zimmerman (@j_zimms) October 9, 2020
But it’s for the #MeToo movement so it must be good:
like why bother with this photorealistic depiction of a woman with a naturally, completely bald puss if you’re not also going to carve it out of stone
— Gita Jackson: Destiny 2 Bail Compilation (@xoxogossipgita) October 9, 2020
And there’s this:
I don’t know much about Greek mythology but shouldn’t the carpet match the drapes? https://t.co/nlRU6Z0Tyc
— mitrebox (@mitrebox) October 9, 2020
Exactly! There should be snakes down there:
the people agree: medusa had snake pubes
— Gita Jackson: Destiny 2 Bail Compilation (@xoxogossipgita) October 9, 2020
Fix this, “cowards”!
There should be tiny snakes down there but they’re cowards
— Jaclyn: Be Gay, Use The Force (@Jbandos) October 9, 2020
Or, maybe not:
I don’t have an OFFICIAL position on whether Medusa had snake pubes but because in Ovid the snake hair was a transformation specifically of her crowning glory, and few people glory in their pubes, I’m inclined to think she had regular pubes. She definitely did not wax
— Jess Zimmerman (@j_zimms) October 9, 2020
Oh, and there are serious implications here putting this in front of the court buildings in downtown NYC:
Pretty sure nobody thought through what it means to enshrine an extrajudicial revenge killing in front of a courthouse. https://t.co/SwegNYUkOu
— Nathaniel Friedman (@freedarko) October 9, 2020
Whoops!
A Medusa statue in front of a courthouse is either saying “revenge is an important part of American justice” or “this court may fail you miserably in which case you can take matters into your own hands.”
— Nathaniel Friedman (@freedarko) October 9, 2020
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