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Originally Posted by andy 1
so why doesn't the statue have clothes on if it doesn't represent sex, its naked and pregnant so it represents the female sex.
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One of the major points of this statue would be completely lost were she to be covered by clothes.
Yes it is shocking and thought provoking and obviously makes some people very uncomfortable.
For me it is the fact that she makes some people uncomfortable tells me they have some prejudices that need to be dealt with. Whether it is simply having a problem with nakedness or pregnancy or more worryingly a need to "hide" disabilities.
As someone once jokingly put it "I have yet to meet anyone who hasn't got a body". TBH she has a far better body than I do and more courage than I will ever have, but I wander around the house naked in front of my children because I don't have any hangups and I never want them to feel selfconcious about their bodies. My parents were the same, yet my grandmother managed to put more clothes on to go to bed than she wore during the day!