- 12 Dec 2023 19:28
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A nude painting named Juno, which was painted by baroque artist G. E. Schröder and has hung in the dining room of the Swedish Parliament for 30 years has been taken down for fear of offending the sensitivities of feminists and Muslim visitors.
Explaining the ban on the baroque breasts, a source from the parliament said: "You have to think of the foreign guests, especially those from Muslim countries."
The deputy speaker of Sweden's parliament, Susanne Eberstein, also a prominent Social Democrat, added: "I think it is more a feminist issue. It’s tiresome (looking at) a bare-breasted woman when I sit at public dinners with foreign guests. I think it feels a little hard to sit there with men who look at us women."
A picture of the painting can be seen here.
(Doesn't seem that "offensive" to me)
Once again, demonstrates the double standards of the Left.
Could you imagine 30 years ago if Christians wanted to take such a painting down? There would have been an outcry.
Similar double standards demonstrated in the Netherlands where they have no problem now taking their public school children out on field trip to pray in a mosque.
Things the Left never would have put up with from Christians, now when it comes to Islam they're gleefully embracing it.
And I would point out how ridiculous this in a country like Sweden which is much less prudish about sexuality and public display of nudity, and especially all the more so when it comes to art.
There are small little signs but it looks like the society is slowly changing to accommodate muslims.
It's also highly ironic that they would cite "feminism" as a reason to go in a more "conservative" direction and cover up an image of breasts, tasteful as it is. It's well known that European feminists have staged demonstrations going out in public bare-breasted, and there has been a feminist movement to give women the right to go out in public bare-breasted. But everything seems to have changed when Europe took in a big wave of muslim immigrants and the feminist movement reoriented its alliances out of political expediency.
Or perhaps showing an image of breasts is okay, but only if the artwork is by a woman.
If the artwork was done by a man, to be enjoyed in older times in the company of men, then it's seen as "exploitative".
news sources:
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4 ... nd_muslims
(link no longer working but article archived here)
(first reported by Swedish newspaper The Local)
Juno Exiled, by Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, Dec 20, 2013
Explaining the ban on the baroque breasts, a source from the parliament said: "You have to think of the foreign guests, especially those from Muslim countries."
The deputy speaker of Sweden's parliament, Susanne Eberstein, also a prominent Social Democrat, added: "I think it is more a feminist issue. It’s tiresome (looking at) a bare-breasted woman when I sit at public dinners with foreign guests. I think it feels a little hard to sit there with men who look at us women."
A picture of the painting can be seen here.
(Doesn't seem that "offensive" to me)
Once again, demonstrates the double standards of the Left.
Could you imagine 30 years ago if Christians wanted to take such a painting down? There would have been an outcry.
Similar double standards demonstrated in the Netherlands where they have no problem now taking their public school children out on field trip to pray in a mosque.
Things the Left never would have put up with from Christians, now when it comes to Islam they're gleefully embracing it.
And I would point out how ridiculous this in a country like Sweden which is much less prudish about sexuality and public display of nudity, and especially all the more so when it comes to art.
There are small little signs but it looks like the society is slowly changing to accommodate muslims.
It's also highly ironic that they would cite "feminism" as a reason to go in a more "conservative" direction and cover up an image of breasts, tasteful as it is. It's well known that European feminists have staged demonstrations going out in public bare-breasted, and there has been a feminist movement to give women the right to go out in public bare-breasted. But everything seems to have changed when Europe took in a big wave of muslim immigrants and the feminist movement reoriented its alliances out of political expediency.
Or perhaps showing an image of breasts is okay, but only if the artwork is by a woman.
If the artwork was done by a man, to be enjoyed in older times in the company of men, then it's seen as "exploitative".
news sources:
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4 ... nd_muslims
(link no longer working but article archived here)
(first reported by Swedish newspaper The Local)
Juno Exiled, by Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, Dec 20, 2013