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The sculpture’s destroyers, Amy E. Keel ’04 and her roommate Mary C. Cardinale ’03, said they leveled the ice penis in order to spare others from being offended by it.
“I think that women or men who are walking to class should not be subjected to a penis,” Keel said. “It was a structure put up to assert male dominance.”
“A few people came out and crowded me with their bodies and one person shoved me away from the penis,” she said. “It was gendered violence, because [their comments] were said in the context of our gender and accompanied by aggressive...
She said the snow penis follows a long line of public phallic symbols, including the Washington Monument and missiles.
But the makers of the statue said they intended to build the snow penis as a simple joke.