High School Sculpture Controversy

[Sandra Craft]

Warrior Spirit Sculpture

This is causing a fuss because some people see not the representation of warrior spirit but a giant vagina giving birth to a beach ball, which they object to high schoolers seeing.  I'm torn -- I too see the vagina giving birth to a beach ball but I've no objection to teenagers looking at it everyday.  It'll probably do more for their school spirit than some affected piece of symbolism.

[Whitney]

I don't think I'd see a vagina unless someone pointed it out...but I also don't know how it was suppose to represent warrior spirit either.  It's kinda just ugly.

[The Magic Pudding]

Of course it should be banned.
And pencil cases, anything with a zipper can get people thinking, can't have that.
There's some trees around with lewd growth that need chopping down.
Armpits, backs of knees and the inside of elbows should never be seen in polite society.
Fingers shouldn't be held too closely together, they look smutty that way.
Lipstick, why would anyone but a prostitute use that?
There's more such advice in The Book of Pudding Deportment if you're interested.

[statichaos]

Anybody who sees a vagina in that has just revealed more about the workings of their own mind rather than the sculpture itself.

Additionally, why aren't they protesting the continued existence of that phallic representation known as the Washington Monument?

[Ecurb Noselrub]

I see an almond trying to emerge from it's stone mother. I would name the sculpture "Almond Mater".  It's really a stretch to see a vagina, but then some people try to snatch strange interpretations from anything they see. Some images just seem to give birth to nutty ideas.  While it's difficult to put my finger on it, there is something about the image that pushes certain buttons and gives me a rise. Right now I find it really hard to penetrate the inner beauty of this work of art.  

[The Magic Pudding]

What's wrong with this god guy anyway?
Why did he make people with these ghastly rude bits they have to hide away?
I'm so glad I'm not burdened with them, just a head and spindly limbs, it's the best way to be.

but then some people try to snatch strange interpretations from anything they see.

More smut, ban it!

[Amicale]

I see an almond trying to emerge from it's stone mother. I would name the sculpture "Almond Mater".  It's really a stretch to see a vagina, but then some people try to snatch strange interpretations from anything they see. Some images just seem to give birth to nutty ideas.  While it's difficult to put my finger on it, there is something about the image that pushes certain buttons and gives me a rise. Right now I find it really hard to penetrate the inner beauty of this work of art.  

LOL, okay, this response was awesome. 

(And no, I don't see a vagina there unless I was told one existed -- it just looks like some odd sculpture that doesn't really scream 'warrior' to me.)

[Ihateyoumike]

I see an almond trying to emerge from it's stone mother. I would name the sculpture "Almond Mater".  It's really a stretch to see a vagina, but then some people try to snatch strange interpretations from anything they see. Some images just seem to give birth to nutty ideas.  While it's difficult to put my finger on it, there is something about the image that pushes certain buttons and gives me a rise. Right now I find it really hard to penetrate the inner beauty of this work of art.  

*golf clap*

[history_geek]

I wonder what it says about me and the people around me when I know for 100% that if that had been put in front of our old school ("higher" elementary, most likely, which means classes 7-9), within 5 seconds of first seeing that sculpture someone double-minded (yes, myself included) would have called out "Church boat", after which the laughing wouldn't have stopped for about a week. And after that it would have become a nice "test" for the new 7th graders every year...

I really see no problem with that sculpture otherwise, though I can't quite see how it has anything to do with "Warrior Spirit" but then I suppose it would work as an example that things aren't always what they seem like and there might be some (intended) deeper meaning to somethings...

And is it eraly that hard to admit to people that you're double-minded that you have to try to ban the sculpture that reminds you about it? Sheesh...

[Sandra Craft]

And is it eraly that hard to admit to people that you're double-minded that you have to try to ban the sculpture that reminds you about it? Sheesh...

OK, I'll ask -- what on Earth is double-minded?

[Sandra Craft]

There's more such advice in The Book of Pudding Deportment if you're interested.

I hesitate to ask about bananas, but I just can't help myself.

[Sweetdeath]

Kinda looks like a guy squintin cuz he got slapped on the nose.

I think about sex all the time, but I did not get vagina from this. And even if; vagina pride! Without them, the earth would be barren. Sheeesh.

[Dobermonster]

If any Wasilla High School art students are reading this, I encourage you all to focus your next projects on phallic symbolism. Be creative, draw from history and myth. Perhaps recreate the Pompeii sculpture of Pan shagging a goat.

Just some thoughts . . . am I helping yet?

[history_geek]

And is it eraly that hard to admit to people that you're double-minded that you have to try to ban the sculpture that reminds you about it? Sheesh...

OK, I'll ask -- what on Earth is double-minded?

I don't know if there is a real English equivalent to that Finnish phrase (kaksimielinen = doulbe-minded), but it basically means that when you see an object or read something that is suggestive, you immediately thing about in the wrong way. Just like with the "Church boat" (kirkkovene) meaning a crude sketch that on a glance looks like a boat with oars out, but if you look it in a "double-minded" way...

Ah, the joys of misspent youth....

[Sweetdeath]

And is it eraly that hard to admit to people that you're double-minded that you have to try to ban the sculpture that reminds you about it? Sheesh...

OK, I'll ask -- what on Earth is double-minded?

I don't know if there is a real English equivalent to that Finnish phrase (kaksimielinen = doulbe-minded), but it basically means that when you see an object or read something that is suggestive, you immediately think about in the wrong way. Just like with the "Church boat" (kirkkovene) meaning a crude sketch that on a glance looks like a boat with oars out, but if you look it in a "double-minded" way...

Ah, the joys of misspent youth....

I get what you're saying. And I learned some Finnish terms. Yay~ !