Brive1987 wrote:Benson helpfully shows us what a SJ rape looks like.
Notice how the looming man is "pinning" his helpless victim.
http://i.imgur.com/NEtKZEO.jpg
" Paul Tadlock, the artist who sculpted the bronze piece almost a quarter-century ago, was mildly amused. Tadlock, 79, told Women in the World in a telephone interview, “That [sculpture] was [done] in the early 1990s when my daughter was a student at the University of the Incarnate Word. In fact, that’s her. I sculpted her.â€
Tadlock is familiar with Twitter, but “not on it†and, until his conversation with Women in the World, had not been aware of the concept of mansplaining, a word that entered the lexicon sometime between 2008 and 2010. After learning about the concept, Tadlock agreed that the phenomenon is common.
“That’s generally the case. The ladies know more,†he said. “Because guys, young guys particularly, love to tell everything they know to impress the girls, and the truth is most of the girls know it already.â€
However, Tadlock insisted that the mansplaining concept was not an intended meaning behind the sculpture.
“It was two students visiting, talking … implying nothing beyond that,†Tadlock insisted even when asked if he was possibly expressing the idea of mansplaining on a subconscious level.
When De la Cruz posted the photo of it on Twitter, the retweets, favorites and mentions immediately began pouring in, but it had some help with amplification on the social media site.
De la Cruz’s and Hernandez’s photo was picked up by journalist and feminist writer Ann Friedman who tweeted the photo with a slightly modified version of de la Cruz’s headline, “Mansplaining: The Statue (via @SadDiego).†Friedman’s tweet has racked up more than 2,900 retweets. And on Tuesday, Jerry Saltz, the senior art critic for New York magazine tweeted a version of de la Cruz’s original joke.
De la Cruz said it was easily her most successful tweet ever. “By a landslide. A huge feminist landslide.†She’s picked up more than 200 followers since the original tweet and, five days later, the mentions and retweets are still coming in.
Twitter users have also been pointing out other similar sculptures around the country. There are several, including one on the campus of Purdue University located, almost poetically, in a place called Lecture Hall. "