The Judgment of Paris Forum - Feminist disfigurement of mermaid's body

18th January 2011

Emily

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Feminist disfigurement of mermaid's body

This forum has posted many crucial discussions over the years that have demonstrated how feminism, as an ideology, is centrally responsible for the imposition of the androgynous standard of appearance for women.

Here's an appalling recent case, from India, that reconfirms this premise.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/11011...ry_13224015.jsp

The pertinent points of this case of political correctness gone mad:

Quote:

The grass mermaid at a Kerala university went under the scalpel yesterday because a section of the staff, most of them from a CPM-backed women’s association, felt its breasts were not in keeping with the ambience of a centre of learning.

The 18ft-long mermaid, a grass replica of the Yakshi, a rock sculpture of the mythical enchantress by Kanai Kunhiraman at Malampuzha gardens in Palakkad, has been a prominent feature of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) for 18 years.

Yesterday, gardener Sajeevan, who has been tending the Matsya Kanyaka for the past two years, had no option but to apply the scissors to remove the “offensive parts”.

P.A. Varghese, who created the mermaid, was in tears as he looked at the mutilated figure. “I feel as if I’ve lost my child,” Varghese, who retired as gardener two years ago, said. “I worked for years to bring it to perfection and maintain its shape. The beauty of the work is gone. What lies bare is the perverse mindset of supposedly educated people.”

The registrar, Chandramohan, had tried to hide the so-called offending parts by planting palms around the mermaid, which lay on the meadow, head raised five-and-a-half feet.

But members of the pro-CPM Women’s Welfare Association were furious. Palms won’t do, they told the registrar, “sanitise” the mermaid. “The highly suggestive torso is not in keeping with the decorum of a centre of learning.”

Sections of other employees had met the registrar yesterday, requesting that the mermaid be spared the mutilation because it had lain there for 18 years without causing any harm.

But the registrar ordered the surgery.

M.V. Devan, painter-sculptor and former chairman of the Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi, condemned the mutilation, saying it was “deplorable that it should have come from those who claim to be civilised and educated”.

Former VC K.S. Radhakrishnan said the mermaid was a fine piece of art. “It was delightful every morning to see the lady of the seas, bathed in dew and reclining on the grass bed.”

The story is appalling, though fully predictable. This feminist "women's association" found womenly curves to be "obscene," and so ordered a literal eradication of those curves.

The exact parallel between the feminist agenda behind this act of institutional vandalism, and the modern fashion industry, which similarly eradicates any trace of womanly shapeliness, particularly bust and hips, is clear.

Another article reveals the (predictable) politics of this university:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/o...r-shrub/716135/

Quote:

The Leftist-controlled Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) thinks that a garden shrub pruned to resemble a mermaid is unacceptably obscene.

Following a complaint from a women’s welfare organisation on campus, CUSAT ordered its garden master to “pluck out the two breasts” of the mermaid and trim the shrub into a man’s figure, which according to university officials, would not have any “vulgar overtones”.

How often has it been said here that the feminist-driven imposition of emaciated androgyny is an effort to masculinize women. In this act, the edict to reduce the sculpture "into a man’s figure" makes such an agenda clear.

Imagine the kind of mind that finds the female form "vulgar." That's the same kind of mind that dominates modern media culture in North America and suppresses voluptuous femininity.

The article comes with a small image of the mutilated mermaid.

Another article shows the heartbroken gardener looking at the ruins of his artwork. The brown area shows where the sculpture's buxom curves had been sliced off.

There's even a brief video showing the final moments of the feminist-mandated disfigurement. It indicates how gorgeous this sculptural bed had been -- a little green paradise.

I haven't been able to find any images of the pre-mutilated mermaid sculpture, but the original article stated that it was patterned after the Kunhiraman mermaid, shown here. This picture shows the luscious, feminine curves that the garden sculpture formerly possessed, with an sensually heavy bust and full hips and thighs. Only a truly resentful, embittered mind could have seen something offensive in this opulent celebration of the well-fed female form.

The sculpture's curvaceous luxuriance speaks of indolent, seductive beauty and essential femininity. Perhaps that was what the feminists resented so much.

This case of the physical eradication of visibly womanly beauty by a feminist agenda perfectly mirrors the situation of the modern fashion industry, which similarly suppresses any trace of essential womanliness in models, forcing them to be so androgynously thin as to look as if someone had taken shears to their bodies and cut away any traces of feminine shapeliness.

This case is an all-too-grim metaphor of what a specific political agenda has done to womanhood, and to traditional feminine beauty, in the modern age.

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