It’s been claimed that Bartholdi’s model for the statue’s body was actually a local sex worker of his acquaintance (other stories say that it was his wife). Hence the New York nickname for the statue, “the Whore in the Harbor”.
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Why am I not even slightly surprised?
The only thing she’s missing is a smart phone in her hand to take a “selfie.”
Ted Cruz shouldn’t let Denny Hastert write his analogies, it’s creepy.
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Ted Cruz, “America is best when on her knees and receiving the warm love I can giver her”.
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It could also be an Irish connection - Dublin statues have similar names:
The tart with the cart/the dish with the fish/the dolly with the trolley/the trollop with the scallop/the flirt in the skirt
The prick with the stick
The stiletto in the ghetto/the erection at the intersection/the stiffy at the Liffey
The floozie in the jacuzzi/the whore in the sewer
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The airmen’s memorial in Toronto, aka Gumby Goes to Heaven
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well, millions of people do enter her each year…
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As someone not well-versed in wrestling, I thought it was some sort of sexual innuendo. Given all the other creepy things he’s said, the version I inferred seemed in character. My next thought was WTF?
Fortunately BB set me straight. But I wonder how many others also inferred the wrong thing.
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Ahhh G.L.O.W. a show I loved as an early teen, for all the wrong reasons.
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To be fair, there is a long history of rhetoric around the nation (not just ours, but the nation as a concept) as being a woman, from the 19th century. Sometimes she’s leading the charge and sometimes, she is written about in terms of something that needs to be protected and cared for by the men of the nation. Marianne is probably the most well-known example of this trope. It’s straight out of the 19th century, where people were still hashing out not only what the nation-state was going to be, but what roles that men and women would play in these new political entities…
(takes off history hat)
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NoTed.
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Calm down. He is just saying that America has a strong guard game.
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People are surprised? Isn’t the main thing the republicans do is bend America over so corporations can have their way with it?
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Down with this kind of thing.
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Heh. I saw that I’d done that.
I think I was subconsciously inspired by this one:
*goes looking for Father Ted/Ted Cruz mashups
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It has a certain tone deafness about it that is kind of hard to let slide. I mean, yes, it’s a wrestling metaphor. But there are a few poor choices along the way to that particular metaphor before you get to the image of America as a woman on her back on the mat.
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Even with the wrestling metaphor, who wants a guy that thinks being beaten down is the best position for our country.
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