Not one but TWO stories this week about people objecting to the penis of Michelangelo's
David. Personally, I always thought it was a little on the small size, and not that impressive. But consider these two stories from opposite sides of the globe:
Turkish politician Ramazan Düzen of the conservative 'Prosperity Party'
visited Florence last week, Turkish Daily Akşam reports. He was disturbed by what he saw. His observations in brief: "There are idols surrounding the city! They're all uncircumcised! Da Vinci and Michelangelo were homosexuals!"
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Ramazan Bey hates the penis... OR DOES HE??!?!?
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Google translate does a champion job on this article, here's some excerpts:
Sculptures is surrounded by the city. Sculpture saying disgusting things I'm talking about. For example, there is one that I think will remain very mild word disgusting. This person is known as Michelangelo, Florence, in the heart of the Prophet David's mother drew a picture of a big uryan. As well as uncircumcised! Indeed, touched my blood...
a picture of a picture of a naked giant uncircumcised also inhuman in a way to mount an event occurs. See who you throw a somersault here to come together" he said.
Yet another statue! Supposedly John the Baptist as a half-naked state. Jesus is baptized and poultry, as well as their female standing at the beginning of an angel. You can not finish telling the incredible nature is full of symbols and figures, the whole city is surrounded by idols...
And across the world in Japan, a small town is puzzling over the naked giant looming over their town park. More than the circumcision, it seems like it's the bare penis itself that's causing the bother. I'm just going to repost the article here and let you puzzle over what it all means... could these two things be CONNECTED?!??!
Japan town demands pants for Michelangelo's David
(AFP)
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2 days ago
TOKYO — A replica of Michelangelo's Renaissance sculpture David that
was erected suddenly last summer is unnerving residents of a Japanese
town, with some calling for the naked masterpiece to be given
underpants.
Okuizumo town in western Shimane prefecture received
five-metre (16-foot) replicas of David and of Greek treasure the Venus
de Milo, as donations from a businessman who hails from the area.
The
statues were put up in a large public park that also includes a
full-size running track, a baseball stadium, tennis courts, a mountain
bike course and a play area with apparatus for children.
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| Okuizumo is Perplexed by the Penis (AFP/Okuizumo Municipality) |
"Some
people have told the town's legislators that toddlers are afraid of the
statues because they are so big and they appeared unexpectedly over the
summer," town official Yoji Morinaga told AFP."They are statues
of unclothed humans, and such pieces of art work are very rare in our
area. Some people apparently said the statues might not be good for
their children," he said.
While many locals have welcomed the new
cultural additions to the mountainside town of fewer than 15,000
residents, some have asked for David to wear underwear to preserve his
modesty, the Yomiuri Shimbun said.
"It is the first time we have had anything like this in our town. Perhaps people were perplexed," Morinaga said.
