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Germany: 'Groped' female statues highlight sexual harassment

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Germany: 'Groped' female statues highlight sexual harassment – DW – 04/08/2024

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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Its a statue. People like touching statues in odd places, take pictures with them that go way beyond what is acceptable to do with a real person. This isnt sexual harassment, what the fuck. It is an inanimate piece of metal.
- They're not saying that "groping" a statue is sexual harassment. They're using the statues as a visual aid to talk about the real issue.
  
  The three statues "visibly show the decades of assaults by passersby," Terre des Femmes said.
Rape culture!
- 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
  
  Christmas Story reboot is wild
- Origin story of the next great empire
oh no people disregard the feelings of inanimate objects!
seriously, this is like saying video games cause violence
- 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.
  
  The three statues "visibly show the decades of assaults by passersby," Terre des Femmes said.
  
  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
- 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.
- Do they not‽
  
  They do not.
  
  Dozens of studies have been carried out over decades and every single one has shown that video games do not cause violence.
- The good ending
  Could use more pets, tough
  
  anyway
  https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/statue-juliet-verona-italy-circa-march-capulet-giulietta-capuleti-made-famous-william-shakespeare-love-tragedy-romeo-145696028.jpg
  
  Who’s a good boy…
- I instantly though about this statue when I saw the post. Although this one might have been harassed (if I can harass a statue) , since it was a symbol of fertility
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.
So judging by many of the comments here and there upvotes, is this news community for the edgy right wing losers?
- People like to touch silly places on statues. Maybe the intent translates better in German culture, but it’s a swing and a miss to me.
  
  Maybe the intent translates better in German culture
  Not really.
- Silly and clumsy campaigns, even if they concern important matters, deserve ridicule, and that's exactly what we're doing here.

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