How dare they be putting up statues of nekkid people in my city!
https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2021/05/10/wings-city-exhibit-draws-complaints-indecency-greenville-city-council/5029993001/?utm_source=greenvilleonline-Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_term=hero
I'm sure kids seeing "mens parts" is going to scar them for life!
Before even clicking on this article, I was thinking, I wonder how far south this city will be. I wasn't disappointed.
"Because they're sculptures, they're considered art." Priceless.
Ah, there it is. The Genetic Fallacy masquerading as "enlightenment." You must have been top of your class in college.
Yeah, sorry, but "ohmygod there's a penis on that art!" has southern "morality" written all over it. While genetic fallacy was clearly behind my initial reaction, I feel that the article itself proved what I expected it to. Is a stereotype still a stereotype when it's proved to be true?
Yeah, sorry, but you're ignoring history, as "northern liberals" are so given to doing. "Oh my god there's a penis on that art!" was a universal sentiment well into the 20th century. Whether it was an appropriate sentiment or not can be debated or joked about. But it doesn't originate in the south. That it lingers in the south isn't surprising, given how agrarian the south is and was. But it lingers in the north as well as the south, if you happen to be enlightened enough to step out of your echo chamber once in a while.
So the northern liberal surprise ("We're shocked. SHOCKED I say!") that other parts of the country don't keep up with their enlightenment is not just disingenuous, but retarded. Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards were northerners, not southerners. The original hotbed of Protestant Fundamentalist Fervor in the Americas was Massachusetts, not South Carolina.
And no, I'm not southern born. I was born in San Jose, California. But I endeavor to be, y'know, rational about things. ;-)
