No, I take that back. In this time and age of enthusiastic self-loathing among our moral betters, it is all too believable. Via Business Insider UK:
"A prominent art gallery has removed a Victorian painting from its walls because of its depiction of the female form.
Manchester Art Gallery, in northern England, took down "Hylas and the Nymphs" by John William Waterhouse last week, partly in light of the cultural #MeToo movement, which aims to highlight the mistreatment of women.
In a blog post about the removal, the gallery said: "We have left a temporary space in Gallery 10 in place of 'Hylas and the Nymphs' by JW Waterhouse to prompt conversation about how we display and interpret artworks in Manchester’s public collection."
The oil painting, completed in 1896, shows the mythological figure of Hylas, one of the Argonauts who joined Jason on a quest to retrieve a magical golden fleece.
At one point in the voyage, Hylas strayed from the group and met a group of nymphs, magical woman-like creatures with a reputation for being beautiful, naked, and treacherous. He was abducted and never seen again, the moment depicted in the painting."
According to The Guardian, gallery curator Clare Gannaway said the Time's Up and #MeToo cultural movements "fed into the decision" to take the picture down.
The report suggested that the painting could be put back later, depending on the public response.
This is the work in question, Preraphaelite John William Waterhouse's 'Hylas and the Nymphs':
Oooooohhh! The dignity of womyn is suffering at the hands of a male chauvinist pig!
If you have stopped puking, you might want to add a comment on the museum's blog. Yours truly did:
"Your so-called ‘curator’ is a godforsaken arrogant dim-witted SJW and, in the broader context, symptomatic of the terminal disease which has Europe in a death knell. If Clare Gannaway is concerned about female dignity then she should have raised her voice re the Rotherham child grooming gangs consisting of, ah, ‘Asian’ persons. Instead, she goes for an 19th century dead white male. PATHETIC. I do not even want to engage in a ‘discussion’ about the what and how-to of showing female nudity since with cultural marxists à la Gannaway any such undertaking is one-way traffic anyway. I used to be so fond of Great Britain, but as the red/green hysterical posse imposes its dubious standards more and more in all strata of society I tend to think of the country more as Small Britain. If Winston Churchill would still be alive Madam Gannaway would be overseer of folklore on the island of Lundy by tomorrow evening. Thank God a Manchester Art Museum under the guidance of this twat of a curator doesn’t own Michelangelo’s David. Michael/Belgium"
Sheesh.
MFBB.
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