Principal fired over Statue of David.

[mangalavara]

Good gracious, how fracking stupid can you all be? You folks are messed up so badly over what is so naturally human. I'm sometimes surprised you even know how to reproduce, sometimes.

I get what you mean about some people in American society, but as an American who is not puritanical, I feel insulted by your words.

Porn is actually sexual in nature, whereas mere nudity is not.

Nailed it!

 

[mangalavara]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/24/florida-principal-michelangelo-david-parents/

I know this story was mentioned in a few other threads, but I thought it warranted its own because it's important that we discuss the serious threat marble peepees pose to society.

I’ve read most of the article. What happened was one parent thought the image was pornographic. As a result, the principal had the choice of either resigning or being fired. In my not-so-humble opinion, the school board was in the wrong for that. Somebody should have kindly explained to the outraged parent the difference between pornography and a nude statue. If the parent doesn’t like it, tough. Unfortunately, the overall school system in the US never sides with the better individuals.

I live in Korea where the government filters the internet so that nobody here can see internet pornography. At my local neighborhood park, there is a nude statue of a woman. There is also a statue of a little girl on her knees leaning over a bench. Her skirt is raised and her panties are visible. Elsewhere, there are statues of nude chubby mothers with their nude children. I’ve even seen a large image of a nude Venus on the front of a store. As an American, I’m not the least bit upset over these sights.

P.S. In a textbook that I used to teach from here, there is an image of the Vitruvian Man as it is. None of my students, who are all Koreans, said a word about it. Back in the US, when I was a Christian, the progressive church that I went to once published a bulletin that had the Vitruvian Man on the front, and he was completely unmanned. I was upset about it.

 

[Father Heathen]

So playboy, that has(had) pictures of naked women, promotes sexual things, but a statue of a naked man doesn't?

Hey, if you get off to the statue of David, nobody's judging.

 

[Father Heathen]

In Australia the word “root/s” is slang for sex
So every time I see this phrase, it amuses me to no end.

I know, I’m so immature lol

Do students incessantly snicker during botany classes?

 

[Estro Felino]

Because we are a pagan country. With no Christian values
Half-naked women in the street, on national TV.

Privacy? Come on...it's all public. Enjoy, people


Just kidding. I just think that the human body portrayed in art (Botticelli, Michelangelo, Donatello) is for celebrating the notion of Beauty, according to John Keats' Ode on a Graecian Urn.

 

[Estro Felino]

As far as I know, after watching TV and social media, Italians are giggling about this.

 

[SomeRandom]

Do students incessantly snicker during botany classes?

Maybe