Direct From a Museum in Brooklyn...

[plumtreeblossom]

Stranger than fiction:

Sculpture of Brittany Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug.

You just can't make this stuff up. The best part is that the the artist, who is anti-choice, is dedicating the scupture to the anti-choice movement. The posterior of the scupture (which we can't see in the photo) displays the baby's crowning head.

Comments

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

I wondered, when I saw this last week, what all the controversy was about. I didn't realize that the baby's head was starting to come out the other end! Now I understand. ;)

[moria923.livejournal.com]

Than

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

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[moria923.livejournal.com]

I started to type a comment, but my screen reader was acting weird, and I couldn't tell what I was doing. So I thought I'd better start over.

[moria923.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the description. I laughed out loud.Than

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

I was not aware that not having the baby sired by the man she loved so much that she needed to distract him from the mother of his first 2 children was hard decision to make, or a decision at all.

Bear skin rug. Rugged republicans in their vacation cottages out in the woods. Beautiful picture. Pardon me while I rech now.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I don't get. How does glorifying an image of the birth process (in whatever whacked-out way they've picked to do it) relate AT ALL to the issue of CHOICE? *sigh*

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

note that he's dedicating it to the anti-abortion movement, not the the anti-choice movement. it makes a lot more sense that way.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I still have to say no, it does not. Anti-abortion is not, in any meaningful way, the same as pro-birth. Nobody on the anti-abortion side THINKS of themselves as "anti-choice". Much as nobody on the pro-choice side THINKS of themselves as pro-baby-killing... but there the distinction actually is crucial. Very little of the pro-choice contingent is actually anti-birth (though there are the Zero Population Growth folks and whatnot). It is possible to be a zealous worshipper of the Mother Goddess and all manner of things fertility-based, AND STILL support the RIGHT to an abortion. "Every child a wanted child."

... I'm not picking on you, this issue just steams me. :-}

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

It is possible to be a zealous worshipper of the Mother Goddess and all manner of things fertility-based, AND STILL support the RIGHT to an abortion.

exactly. anti-abortion is *not* the same as anti-choice. one is a moral issue and one is a legal issue.

it is possible to think that the government has no right to make your choices for you and still think that nobody *should* have an abortion.

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

in other words (because this is a better way of saying it), it is possible to be pro-choice and anti-abortion.

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

... I'm not picking on you,

don't worry -- i didn't take it as such. :)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Oh of course, those already born babies aren't important. Once they've slid outside the womb they can march their little heinies straight the Hell! ;-)

What makes me uncomfortable is the highly sexualized position in the sculpture. I don't know much about midwifery, but I don't recall ever seeing a photo of a woman in that specific position during final stages of labor. It's a definite sexual position, and arguably one of the most submissive sexual positions possible.

Barf. Wouldn't surprise me if the artist had lots of fun with that sculpture before the clay dried...

[seaweedgirle.livejournal.com]

Didn't she have a C-section in her own entire wing of a hospital? I am totally not slamming C-sections (since I will probably have to go this route) ... but it seems weird that the artist highlighted someone who doesn't represent the "raw birth" he portrays.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember something about a C-section, though I'm quite certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that she did not give birth on a bearskin rug with her rear sensuously wagging in the air. This is an artist's fantasy -- clearly he's projecting a fetishized view of the birthing process, and using the image of a sexy young celebrity to do it.

Which begs the question -- how does Brittany Spears feel about the sculpture?