A statue for Scalzi?
The sculptor did get the whole shambling thing right, though. And he did a nice job of capturing the whole sexyrapey gamma male vibe. All it needs is that notorious quote.
"I’m a rapist. I’m one of those men who likes to force myself on women without their consent or desire and then batter them sexually."
- John Scalzi
Labels: McRapey
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So that's why it is so small.
Sigh...the things people waste their talent on.
WTF?
WTF?
My thoughts exactly. I would definitely desire further information in the WTF department.
Nightmare fuel.
Uh, what?
It's melting.
LOL, it is causing women undue stress at the college.
"...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."
There he goes again pulling the rape trigger on innocent women. Doesn't he know it's a hair trigger!
TRIGGER WARNING
TRIGGER WARNING
TRIGGER WARNING
That picture stare-raped me.
He's the kind of guy that likes to force his unsightly form into the line of vision of some unsuspecting innocent young girl.
I gonna add to the WTF. Seriously, what is that?
Full nudity impending, I fear.
Can't...stop...laughing
Shame, shame!
What a bunch of philistines. Don't they know that this is *art*. That to limit art to any sort of objective standards or classical theory is just the prerogative of white male rapist privilege?!?
I might except some dumb hicks from Georgia or Mississippi to see nothing wrong with demanding that ART be removed because they're all a bunch of fascists seeking to oppress alternative interpretations of art and marginalize the 'other', but BOSTON!!?!!! By Hammarskjold, that such a thing could happen in such a cradle of progress almost makes me question our beloved goodthink!!!
Afterall, was not pisschrist, ART? Is not Graffiti the creative manifestation of the urban poor? Why such hatred now?!?
Trigger warning . . . 21st century speak for "I do believe I'm getting the vapors".
Super irony, the student who feels that art should not assault is named 'Wang'. Lolololol.
And again, if a statue of a sleepwalking dude makes you feel un-safe, then clearly voting rights are beyond you.
But please, ladies, tell me more about how when dealing with art, place and context matter. Those sound perilously close to stodgy old 'rules' to me, and Annan forbid any of those exist in any medium of art.
What in God's name...is... that?
I can only hope that public funds were used, and that it cost at least $500,000.
Double-you Tea Eff? Someone give me a link, here, google gives me nothing.
For it to be scale they have to shave some off the crotchbulge
Thanks for something sprightly to gladden my soul.
Maybe Scalzi should donate one of his dresses for that thing.
Obviously the only solution is to ban all males and depictions of males from campus. Like the muslims do with Mohammed.
Anything else is just cruel patriarchy.
Link? Don't you people stop at Matt Drudge's place before stopping here? First thing I do. Something tasty on Drudge? Let's see what Vox has to say about that...
So...these women think of themselves as dangerously loaded firearms? Maybe their layers of fat serve as a safety.
The only trigger warning anyone needs is S&W Sigma series. At the very least, it should have a label that says "If you like slowly snapping chicken bones and prying them free with a screwdriver you are going to love this trigger."
To be fair, I don't believe that McRapey is so vain that he would allow his muscles to develop as fully as this statue has. Artistic license, maybe.
Were it not for the snow on the top of the head and on the foot I would have thought Scalzi was posing for another fundraiser.
"I learned'ed'ed that in collage!"
New t-shirt.
Generally, I stay within the bounds of the topic ( when I choose to be a part) but it seems like the following interview should be good for generating a couple hundred thousand page hits.
,....not to mention that it would go a long way towards separating the wheat from the ticks.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/edward-snowden-interview-blacked-out-by-msm/
I think my ovaries just shriveled up in protest
Braaaiiinsss.... braaaii... I mean... Laaawns... Laaaawwwwnnnsss...
This is a safe place, Amy.
Although be careful if Jim Hines shows up to comfort you.
He's just trying to find who next to give charity to.
Not fat enough.
Found it.
"As the best art does, Tony Matelli’s work provokes dialogue, and discourse is at the core of education," she wrote.
Do you wonder why "art" is such a pretentious cesspool these days? Sentiments like this are why.
"We were really disappointed that she seemed to articulate that she was glad it was starting discussion, but didn’t respond to the fact that it's making students on campus feel unsafe, which is not appropriate," Magid said. "We really feel that if a piece of art makes students feel unsafe, that steps over a line."
It makes them "feel unsafe"? Why can't they just say what they mean, instead of mouthing ridiculous fears that the inanimate object is going to get them?
Just say "That thing is an ugly POS, and I'd rather not have to look at it every day." It's not hard.
Would they have felt unsafe if it was a statute of someone with the physique of an elite athlete?
per the story linked at The Drudge Report the statue is part of an art exhibit at a Womens' college and some of the students want it removed because the find it "threatening."
Now I would want it removed because it is fugly and I prefer not to be forced to look at fugly things for no other reason than to "challenge" me or "make me think about what art is." However, it is a freaking statue. If you are threatened (ie afraid) of a freaking statue, you are not an adult.
"[T]his 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"
Fair enough, but given that it's at an all-women college, how likely is it -really- that sexual assaults on campus will involve men?
I know - the college needs to add a sign to the statue that says "Mace Target" or "Taser Practice Dummy". That ought to automatically move the statue into feminist-approved.
To be honest, I'm surprised that people haven't started dressing it up yet. It's almost Valentines Day, give the statue a bow and arrows.
Quick,someone put a dress on that thing. Because cisnormative.
"He's the kind of guy that likes to force his unsightly form into the line of vision of some unsuspecting innocent young girl."
GIRL?
Stilicho, why are you assuming that statue self identifies with a culture that wears clothing other than loincloths?
You need to check your cisshirt pantsnormative clothing fascism.
So... this image disproves evolution by natural selection.
...If the artist wanted to be controversial, he would've done up a similar lifelike figure, but in a casual stance and in normal clothing for the weather, looking at the school from across the street as if they were waiting for someone.
The fact that it'd resemble Ted Bundy would be - as is said at the end of every Hollywood film - purely coincidental.
Wellesly. Go figure.
It's a riot!
the womyns are huddling and shrieking and crying and pointing fingers.
At an all men's college, a similar statue would be hilariously repurposed within a couple hours.
Shriekers and criers versus doers. Anyone still wonder on how men are promoted faster at work?
...In fact, it'd make for a fairly decent pro-gun campaign. Just tour it around Unis and other campuses.
Krul: Why can't they just say what they mean, instead of mouthing ridiculous fears that the inanimate object is going to get them?
They are saying what they mean. These are feminists of the "hear me roar" stripe. They are the kind of people who, when they get 86,000 readers to one of their neurotic gibberings, imagine that 86,000 men are coming after them in their skivvies.
The statue really does scare them.
Because Grrl power.
I liked art back when it was just hot, nude women.
Thank you Andy Warhol for taking a dump on it all.
I grew up in a neighborhood adjacent to a Catholic University with lots of off campus student housing. I've seen plenty of actual college students that looked like that, usually stumbling out of fraternity houses.
During hell week he would have been in a group, outside a soriety house, singing.
I can't believe these homophobic cisbitches didn't even ask if the statue was gay or not. The bigots just presumed he was into them.
What would happen if they took this to a yoga class?
This was back when there were still such things as paperboys and I delievered papers in the off campus student housing areas. Collected money on Thursday and Friday evenings and Saturday mornings. Saw a lot of weirdness.
Hie them to their fainting couches!
Jeeze Vox, that isn't really him is it?
HEY EVERYBODY! WE'RE GOING STREAKING! THROUGH THE QUAD, AND INTO THE GYMNASIUM!
Where's my katana when I need it?
Can the Jabba's at SFWA dip that crap in carbonite and ship him off to the evil Empire for a wall hanging?
Outlaw X - Jeeze Vox, that isn't really him is it?
It looks like him, doesn't it? The resemblance appears to be coincidental, however.
It appears he's doing an ad for Hanes underwear.
I can never unsee that.
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It is creepy, but threatened? By a statue of a wimpy white male in his underwear?
El Borak February 05, 2014 4:30 PM
They are the kind of people who, when they get 86,000 readers to one of their neurotic gibberings, imagine that 86,000 men are coming after them in their skivvies.
you know, i've never felt a need to return to witchwind after the last time it came up ... but that is some goddamn stupid shit.
"When men view our blogs in such large numbers, it’s a threat. "
we are, evidently, oppressing their blogs with rapestares.
perfectly in keeping with the mental midget bimbos at Wellesley though.
This is so passive aggressive. You really have a hard on for the guy. Just admit that you're jealous that he sells more books and move on. You need to find some "closure".
...that art should not assault is named 'Wang'. Lolololol.
Josh had the right movie
and idea
"This is so passive aggressive."
You seem to be struggling with the meaning of the word, "passive."
Scalzi lost a Superbowl bet. A big bet, a foolish bet, one he made drunk. How else can you explain this?
bkm: oppressing their blogs with rapestares.
They can feel your eyes, raping your way across the screen, left to right, occasionally backing up to re-rape an interesting word, an unfamiliar or bizarre turn of phrase. Rape, rape, across and down, incessantly, relentlessly, stopping only at the periods.* Then raping again, each sentence defiled by your CISMale eyes, each paragraph falling helplessly before your rapestare, your raperead. Then when it is over, when you've satisfied your own curiosity, sated your readlust, you leave, never giving the words a second thought, not even bothering to promise to read again in the morning.
The least you could do is leave a benjamin on the dresser.
* Generally a good idea, considering
You really have a hard on for the guy. Just admit that you're jealous that he sells more books and move on. You need to find some "closure".
What part of "this will never stop until he apologizes to me and to my readers" did you fail to understand? Barring that, this will continue until he is in the grave. Why on Earth would we stop? Did you seriously not laugh when you saw that statue?
I'm not jealous of him in any way, shape, or form. I wouldn't trade my books for his any more than I would trade them for those of E.L. James. And it will be tremendously amusing when my book sales eventually surpass his, just as my blog pageviews did. I'll bet he doesn't even like to write very much anymore, it's mostly a means to an end.
You see, Scalzi performs a very useful purpose for me, one for which I am actually quite grateful. He gives me the precious gift of motivation. I don't get motivated by money or by fame or by awards. I need an opponent to vanquish. And, bless his shriveled soul, he gives me that.
El Borak February 05, 2014 7:07 PM
The least you could do is leave a benjamin on the dresser.
don't be ridiculous.
if i PAY for it, it's no longer a rapestare. now it's a johnstare at an empowered staresex worker.
seriously though, i like that. you should post that at witchwind.
stopping at the periods? real men don't stop at the periods.
not really ... safe for work
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/06/06d0a3f072dfb4a95b2c89c72404e1dec9bbe18fa0ff06903cba1a487c491926.jpg
What the fuck man!
Not only have I, but I enjoyed, doing exactly what you bitch about. My guess is, Scalzi only dream of what I have not only done, but been supported in doing by the very women I have done it to, and their girlfriends, sisters, mothers, and daughters. Hell, most secular women hope I happen to them, if most don't garner the dessert of my seed.
Sometimes I can't quite tell if you are being a pussy, daring the rabbits to do what they dream, or just fried half of the time. Seriously. I love you bro, but... come on!
Yeah, I've changed. But... not THAT much.
On a sane campus (oxymoron?) the girls would put some humorous clothes on it and carry on about their business.
I need an opponent to vanquish. And, bless his shriveled soul, he gives me that.
So... you're saying you'll never be fulfilled?
Also, it's good to know that you still don't understand satire.
"So... you're saying you'll never be fulfilled? "
Unless you commenting here is a tiring, unrewarding white-knighting obligation on your part, this should bring you joy to no end. Delicious ankles.
Thy cup runneth over.
Obvious February 05, 2014 8:29 PM
Also, it's good to know that you still don't understand satire.
isn't it cute how the libs will pretend to ANY depth of stupidity necessary in order to accuse a non-lib of something?
this doesn't remind of Lee Atwater at all.
Also, it's good to know that you still don't understand satire.
What is this "satire" of which you speak so highly?
He froze from the extreme cold and someone stole his dress?
Under normal circumstances I would pity him or see if he could be detained for psychiatric observation for 72 hours.
Rabbits, even gamma rabbits, know to come in from the cold.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but it is also tragic when lost.
The worst part is I can't think of a "recognized minority" this applies to. Other than the mentally ill.
Snohawk? This should be submitted to some random captioning site.
What is this "satire" of which you speak so highly?
I think it's those flute-playing goat guys who hang around with Dionysus. I was wondering what they had to do with McRapey, but then again I suspect he plays a pretty mean skin flute himself.
You are such a bitch, dear. :)
Hey, it's good for giggles and helps me finish with a flourish, if you know what I mean? Bitch. All the way. God knows I love you as few brothers even can. Yeah. I almost wish it could be queer. Neither of us work that way though. Pump the Bunny a little extra just because though. Yeah, I get that whole thing too. Does she? *grin* No, no... *double grin*
Man, lefties sure get their whities in a bunch when you take them for their word, don't they?
I feel that Obvious is accusing McRapey of satirizing rape, which is simply a despicable and unfounded smear against the rapist.
McRapey is very, very serious about rape. Because rape is serious. I really don't think that a pro-woman rapist like McRapey would ever think of making rape jokes. He's admitted to some horrible rapes in his day, but I don't think it is fair for Obvious to falsely accuse him of joking about it.
Obvious, you clearly owe McRapey an apology. I believe that's two thumps and a nosetwitch, but I'm not fluent in rabbit. Too bad, too, or I'd sign up to translate The Last Witchking into rabbitese. I bet I'd make a liberal pledge campaign in royalties, and I'd donate it all to McRapey's rape victim counseling and hush fund.
Yikes.This is certainly surprising.
It's a sad thing that I genuinely assumed that this was a statue of Scalzi when I first read it.
Granted, I was tired, but still.
Obvious: "So... you're saying you'll never be fulfilled?
Also, it's good to know that you still don't understand satire."
Obviously, we are in a time of Romans.
...What the hell...?
*reads link*
Oh.
No, my reaction is more: "Dude in his underwear in the snow, walking like that...drugs maybe? Call the cops, this guy needs transport to a hospital before he eats a homeless guy's face."
Of course, I graduated from a state school, not Wellesley, so I guess my reactions are less informed.
"You see, Scalzi performs a very useful purpose for me, one for which I am actually quite grateful. He gives me the precious gift of motivation. I don't get motivated by money or by fame or by awards. I need an opponent to vanquish. And, bless his shriveled soul, he gives me that."
I lold.
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