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Art - Donald Trump Statue, 'The Emperor Has No Balls,' Appears In The Castro - View - Imzy
Art - Donald Trump Statue, 'The Emperor Has No Balls,' Appears In The Castro - View - Imzy
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I actually heard about this earlier today, and wanted to start a discussion to deconstruct the harmfulness of this statue.
Firstly, I loathe Trump. I am sick of hearing about him, I'm sick of seeing his face, I'm sick of his followers. I hope with all my heart he does not make it to the White House.
My dislike of this statue has more to do with the depiction of Trump with an extremely small penis and no testicles. The implication being, he's not a real man and has no real power. This underlying meaning not only reinforces toxic gender roles for men, but also that anything relating to women (I mean, it was small enough on the statue to look like a large clitoris to me) is inherently distasteful and abhorrent.
I don't think a critic or satire of Trump needs to include this kind of message, as it does damage on a societal scale vs just Trump himself.




It reinforces the idea that having a small penis is shameful or something
But it is to Donald Trump :/ This is the guy that, while at a debate for the Republicam primary, took the time to reassure everyone that "there is no problem" with that part of his anatomy.
My only solace is that in the best case senario for him, Trump only has a 25% chance of winning (according to the polls at 538).
still doesn't make it okay and makes you seem like a hypocrite if you are okay with this but don't like body shaming
I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying that it was probably an effective way to get under Donald Trump's skin (which was what the group behind the statues was going for).
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I very much agree - there's so many problematic issues this statue invokes, I almost have as much issue with it as I do with Trump himself, and what he represents.
I see it as being subversive, a comment about the hyper masculinity that Trump represents, which yes, society represents as being related to having a large penis and balls.
True, but its hard for me to ignore how the delivery of this commentary on hyper masculinity also harms other groups, especially oppressed ones, while also reinforcing the belief that masculinity does originate from your genitalia and its size.
I think there are numerous ways this artist could've been subversive without using this imagery. This just strikes me as very lazy and harmful.
Yes. For example, the artist could have criticized Trump's hypermasculinity by overemphasizing the masculinity to the point of ridiculousness. Or something along the lines of the "masculinity so fragile" hashtag. (I mean, Trump kind of does everything to extremes already, but that is one way to satire without basically going "look we took your toxic masculinity away [now you are like unto a terrible woman the HORROR]!"