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After we have had a very understandable chuckle at Ashcroft (certainly not
one of *my* favorite cabinet members), it might be good to take a peek at the
following article to see how many nude paintings, etc. in public places have
been removed in the time period before the current administration due the
danger of them being misconstrued as "sexual harassment". I doubt that the
authors of this humorous poem are aware of this history. Ashcroft was
foolish in that he was *continuing* a stupid precident from past years, not
being foolish on his own, although he is fully capable of that!
For example, from this article:
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel022502.shtml
"Vermont tends to consider itself a quite progressive state — but the state
government was years ahead of John Ashcroft in covering up works of art. In
1993, female employees in a state office building complained that they were
being sexually harassed by a mural of Christopher Columbus arriving in the
New World, because the painting depicted native women without shirts. State
officials hung bedsheets over the harassing mural. "
Read the whole article - lots of examples - stupid, all of them! And for
those of us who have supported women who have been harassed for breastfeeding
in public, primarily by *women*, it should not surprise us that many of the
complaints about nude paintings, statues have come from women.
Ruth Scuderi, IBCLC
Westfield, MA
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