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Defenders of the phallus called the sculpture “art” because they enjoyed this particular joke. As an indication of the defenders’ commitment to free expression in general, phallus-breaker Amy E. Keel ’04 says they threatened her when she tried to exercise her own rights to free expression and demolish the sculpture...
...neither of us feels particularly threatened by the so-called “constant reminders” of the “power of the symbol of the male genitalia.” Indeed, I hardly think about my own, most of the time. My impression of Keel is that she has not yet recovered from the (understandable) trauma of her rape, and is instead choosing to use her feminist beliefs to hide her discomfort with her own sexuality. I find it sad that Keel’s situation is not even unique. It has become fashionable, in this...
...Keel, I apologize, but Freud was right: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a nine-foot-tall snow erection is just a nine-foot-tall snow erection. Missiles have nothing to do with this, nor does the Washington Monument. As for the phallic implications of those particular images, that’s up for discussion. Militant feminism is past its prime, and getting worked up over matters as trivial as this only makes things worse. It was a juvenile college-boy prank, nothing more. Deal with...
...wasn’t anyone’s private property; it was snow,” said Keel. “Taking down a penis...is not impeding anyone’s free speech...
Honig argued that the group would not have taken the destruction of a snow vagina well—just as the snow phallus builders were upset by Keel and Cardinale’s nighttime castration of their sculpture...