Sunday, September 18, 2005
Had intended to go into town this weekend, especially to see the Alison Lapper statue, on the Fourth Plinth. Unfortunately I didn't make it.
I'm finding it very difficult to find valid arguments against the statue, as quite often they boil down to the sorts of negative opinions on display in this Guardian blog piece which are often just offensive, such as Some guy did a freak with flippers and we have put up a statue of it? and It looks like the product of Jimmy Carr bedding a sea-lion. Is that wrong? It becomes grimly amusing when faced with the person towards the end who insists that this is all unnecessary and tries to imply that we're all incredibly well-adjusted towards images of physical deformaty and the disabled so therefore could we just get rid of this big statue of a pregnant disabled woman please?
I'm finding it very difficult to find valid arguments against the statue, as quite often they boil down to the sorts of negative opinions on display in this Guardian blog piece which are often just offensive, such as Some guy did a freak with flippers and we have put up a statue of it? and It looks like the product of Jimmy Carr bedding a sea-lion. Is that wrong? It becomes grimly amusing when faced with the person towards the end who insists that this is all unnecessary and tries to imply that we're all incredibly well-adjusted towards images of physical deformaty and the disabled so therefore could we just get rid of this big statue of a pregnant disabled woman please?
