It’s actually all four. I can see how one might confuse it for something obscene without the context.
If you ask me, I think we need to make obscene statues hip again. Bring back the priapus statues!
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There was a particular statue of two arms hugging representing MLK Jr and his wife Corretta that inspired the exact opposite feelings, apparently, as many onlookers mistakenly thought it was something more obscene.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What is all four, tf are you talking about?
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
dkppunk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I saw this is Boston just last week, my first view of it was the second picture. I mentioned to my partner that it looked like a sex act. I’m so glad I’m not the only one who sees that.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes thats what I said. Did you somehow assume it was a one armed hug?
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 5 months ago
themaninblack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Uh…
No.
themaninblack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same sentiment, though.
“We don’t even see his feet. He is embedded in the rock like something not yet fully born, suited and stern, rising from its roughly chiseled surface. His face is uncompromising, determined, his eyes fixed in the distance, not far from where Jefferson stands across the water. But kitsch here strains at the limits of resemblance: Is this the Dr. King of the “I Have a Dream” speech? Or the writer of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech?”
-Edward Rothstein
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Okay but people thought the arms thing was a depiction of fellatio, so not remotely similar in reception.