a radical notion

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from the W.T.F. department

Retracing her route this week through the museum’s European and contemporary galleries, Ms. McGee passed the marble torso of a Greek youth from a funerary relief, circa 330 B.C.; its label reads, “his nude body has the radiant purity of athlete in his prime.” She passed sculptor Auguste Rodin’s tormented “Shade;” Aristide Maillol’s “Flora,” with her clingy sheer garment; and Jean Arp’s “Star in a Dream.”

Ms. McGee is the fifth grade teacher in Frisco, Texas who was suspended from her job this week when one of her students was “exposed to nude statues and other nude art representations” during a Principal approved school trip to the Dallas Museum of Art, as reported in the New York Times. The kid’s parents complained.


Here’s a thought: Any cities acting stupid and disregarding hundreds (thousands!) of years of cultural understanding regarding the Arts gets mandatory secession. Starting now.

Let’s go ahead and include respected scientific theory in this one – Kansas City: you can follow Frisco, Texas out the door for that Creationism nonsense last year.

Update: But wait, there's more! Just when you thought you had the whole crazy American morality thing figured out, then there's this: Kellie Everts, Stripper for God » (via Gaper's Block)