When you look at anything, always consider racism reasons
Comment on The Statue of David Dafoe
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Actually, Michelangelo made it small on purpose, because big ones were seen as a sign of low intelligence and animal-like behavior back then. Probably for racism reasons.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh sweet, I’m like a fucking genius then
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What, I think you’re getting things backwards there.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What do you mean?
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 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.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 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:
toynbee@lemmy.world 7 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.
AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 7 months ago
I remember it!
toynbee@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, that means you are my new best friend. Sorry if you weren’t looking for one - the process is automatic.
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
toynbee@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is this comment literally without content or is my client malfunctioning?
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Left it open earlier, came home and it was blank. Strange. Commented now.