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submitted 2 years ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/globalnews@lemmy.zip

To show how sexual harassment leaves its mark, a women's rights organization in Germany is drawing attention to statues of nude women, with breasts that are visibly lighter after years of being touched.

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[-] cheesorist@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years ago

oh no people disregard the feelings of inanimate objects!

seriously, this is like saying video games cause violence

[-] stillitcomes@lemm.ee 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's not what the campaign is saying. The statues are just being used as a visually striking metaphor for sexual harassment. It's cheaper and more effective to put some placards on a statue that people are obviously paying attention to, vs spending the time to design posters that nobody will look at.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 11 points 2 years ago

The three statues "visibly show the decades of assaults by passersby," Terre des Femmes said.

[-] cheesorist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Good idea, fully support it

this little bit is bad

The three statues "visibly show the decades of assaults by passersby," Terre des Femmes said.

saying statues can get assaulted does more harm than good

hope it's a mistranslation

[-] Kacarott@feddit.de 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Did you read the post? The point is using the status as very clear symbolism, bringing attention to the issue of sexual violence in society.

It's a creative campaign to help people, not to try condemn the touching of statues.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Do they not‽

Edit

shouldn't have omitted the "/s"

[-] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 19 points 2 years ago
[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Okey, I thought that exclamation was enough to omit "/s"

Turns out, it was not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] Zellith@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Dozens of studies have been carried out over decades and every single one has shown that video games do not cause violence.

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

So does violence cause video games?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Inconclusive.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I know, I was trying to be sarcastic but only turned out the usual stupid

[-] Libertus@lemmy.world 67 points 2 years ago
[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 27 points 2 years ago

I can't stop imagining how hilarious it would've ended if there was -5°C and he got stuck glued to the bull's balls. Painful, but hilarious

[-] Fester@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

Christmas Story reboot is wild

[-] Ioughttamow@kbin.run 8 points 2 years ago

Origin story of the next great empire

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So judging by many of the comments here and there upvotes, is this news community for the edgy right wing losers?

[-] Libertus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Silly and clumsy campaigns, even if they concern important matters, deserve ridicule, and that's exactly what we're doing here.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Well, we could talk about Victor Noir’s crotch, the bull’s balls in Chicago, The Adam in NYC gets his junk touched, too.

I’m not trying to say we shouldn’t discuss assault or point out any hypocrisy, just that maybe a statue isn’t the best starting point.

this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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