Comment on The Statue of David Dafoe

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  An ancient cracked.com article posited that, seen from above - as might be the theoretical perspective of the sculptor - every aspect of the statue represents the subject being in a state of fear, due to being about to fight Goliath, hence the shrinkage.

  Unfortunately I cannot find the article, nor prove this to be the case.

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  • AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember it!

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, that means you are my new best friend. Sorry if you weren’t looking for one - the process is automatic.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is this comment literally without content or is my client malfunctioning?

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Left it open earlier, came home and it was blank. Strange. Commented now.

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When you look at anything, always consider racism reasons

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• ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh sweet, I’m like a fucking genius then

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• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What, I think you’re getting things backwards there.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you mean?

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    • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s generally considered that the whole “black people have tremendous dicks” thing, to quote Eddie Murphy, is because that was considered somehow brutish or animalistic. Rather than what you’re implying. And I say this as a man with a tremendous dick.

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Actually, black people DO on average have larger dicks than Caucasians. Not by anywhere near as much as the stereotype goes, but it’s still a thing.

        That’s often something racists do: take a small real difference and blow it up into a (somewhat literally in this case) larger than life caricature and then declare it a bad thing.

        Btw, I couldn’t find the wheelbarrow one, but here’s a fun SFW pic of Priapus:

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