High School Sculpture Controversy

[Amicale]

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....

Oh, sure, there's an English equivalent: we'd just say 'I have a dirty mind', LOL. As in, if there's more than one way to see something, someone with a 'dirty mind' will automatically see it suggestively/sexually. I'll admit that I often do that myself!

[McQ]

Wow. File this story under "Shit that wastes everyone's time".

Do these folks have nothing better to do than see a vagina in everything? I mean come on. I try to see sex in lots of things but that's just because I like sex, not because I'm offended by it. But I don't really see a vagina in that sculpture. As has been said, it's a stretch to see that.

Bunch of Puritan tight assed busybodies.

[Sweetdeath]

^
A+
And even IF it was a vagina. Why would someone be offended by a beautiful part of the woman's body?
Maybe it's me, but I love vaginas.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

^
A+
And even IF it was a vagina. Why would someone be offended by a beautiful part of the woman's body?
Maybe it's me, but I love vaginas.

ODE TO VAGINAS

Oh, dear door to reality
Escape from the womb
Sweet entrance to mortality
Exiting the tomb

Oh, soft portal to ecstasy
Scabbard for the rod
Blessed home of eternity
Revelation of God

[Sandra Craft]

Oh, sure, there's an English equivalent: we'd just say 'I have a dirty mind', LOL. As in, if there's more than one way to see something, someone with a 'dirty mind' will automatically see it suggestively/sexually. I'll admit that I often do that myself!

I'm just glad no one's ever shown me an ink blot.

[Sweetdeath]

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A+
And even IF it was a vagina. Why would someone be offended by a beautiful part of the woman's body?
Maybe it's me, but I love vaginas.

ODE TO VAGINAS

Oh, dear door to reality
Escape from the womb
Sweet entrance to mortality
Exiting the tomb

Oh, soft portal to ecstasy
Scabbard for the rod
Blessed home of eternity
Revelation of God

...liked it but the last two lines. :\

What does  god have anything to do with vaginas?

[Ecurb Noselrub]

^
A+
And even IF it was a vagina. Why would someone be offended by a beautiful part of the woman's body?
Maybe it's me, but I love vaginas.

ODE TO VAGINAS

Oh, dear door to reality
Escape from the womb
Sweet entrance to mortality
Exiting the tomb

Oh, soft portal to ecstasy
Scabbard for the rod
Blessed home of eternity
Revelation of God

...liked it but the last two lines. :\

What does  god have anything to do with vaginas?

The poem allows personal interpretation of "God."  Do whatever you want to with it.  Think of it as ultimate experience.

[Amicale]

Cool poem! But the hell with 'scabbard for the rod'. 

[The Magic Pudding]

Cool poem! But the hell with 'scabbard for the rod'. 

I'm not sure of the intricacies of you preferences but it wouldn't necessarily require providing scabbard rights to another.

[Amicale]

Cool poem! But the hell with 'scabbard for the rod'. 

I'm not sure of the intricacies of you preferences but it wouldn't necessarily require providing scabbard rights to another.

Eh, I was being facetious.  I do that well. 

[Sweetdeath]

^
A+
And even IF it was a vagina. Why would someone be offended by a beautiful part of the woman's body?
Maybe it's me, but I love vaginas.

ODE TO VAGINAS

Oh, dear door to reality
Escape from the womb
Sweet entrance to mortality
Exiting the tomb

Oh, soft portal to ecstasy
Scabbard for the rod
Blessed home of eternity
Revelation of God

...liked it but the last two lines. :\

What does  god have anything to do with vaginas?

The poem allows personal interpretation of "God."  Do whatever you want to with it.  Think of it as ultimate experience.

What ultimate experience?

[Ecurb Noselrub]

^
A+
And even IF it was a vagina. Why would someone be offended by a beautiful part of the woman's body?
Maybe it's me, but I love vaginas.

ODE TO VAGINAS

Oh, dear door to reality
Escape from the womb
Sweet entrance to mortality
Exiting the tomb

Oh, soft portal to ecstasy
Scabbard for the rod
Blessed home of eternity
Revelation of God

...liked it but the last two lines. :\

What does  god have anything to do with vaginas?

The poem allows personal interpretation of "God."  Do whatever you want to with it.  Think of it as ultimate experience.

What ultimate experience?

That's totally up to you.  It's a poem - once written, it's everyone's personal property. Whatever your idea of the ultimate experience is, insert (heh heh) here.

[ThinkAnarchy]

I saw a vagina, but as Whitney suggested I'm not positive I would have immediately recognized it had it not been pointed out to me. I'm fairly certain I would though. Most high school students are seeing actual vaginas in person and or on the internet, so I don't see why people make these things news. Art is subjective... shouldn't that be something we teach children? One person may see a giant vagina giving birth to a ball, while I saw a giant vagina with a tribal hand inside it... perhaps I'm simply unimaginative. Others may have seen something of artistic value.

I'm not a good appraiser of art though as Antique Roadshow has continuously pointed out.

[Tank]

I have a 'dirty mind' 

However as TMP pointed out there are plenty of objects that resemble genitals so at least at $100,000 this is a post artistic one.

Storm in a tea cup, again!

[Guardian85]

It does kinda look vagina like, so I understand that the community that made Sarah Palin mayor would see one. 

As for me, I just think it butt ugly!