I don’t really have an opinion on whether the “realistic” sculpture of a newborn girl is too offensive to put on Calgary buses. Newborns, especially if they’re other people’s babies, are not always pretty. But I do find the story too amusing not to mention. There’s no end of half-naked pretty young things in objectionable poses everywhere you look, but a wrinkly newborn is too much?
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Man, Winston Churchill or Gollum!
Seems I’ve moved to a silly place…
Being over-cautious is adviseable right now. This is a society where it only takes one person making a complaint of obscenity to create considerable expense and trouble. Under such circumstances, it’s no surprise that organisations shy away from anything that so much as hints at the possibility of perhaps being obscene in some way.
As a whole I think we are just getting way to sensitive.
The best, recent example were complaints we received over handouts advertising a lecture at Mount Royal University. The cards asked “Is religion like chocolate or vanilla?”, an analogy which apparently has “racial overtones” according to the complainant.
Can’t do anything but chuckle over that one 🙂