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...would seem that Harvard is still dicking around with the conflict between the First Amendment and Puritanism (News, “Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate”, Feb. 24). I am reminded of one generation of (then) Radcliffe undergraduates being instructed to paint out each erect penis on the Greek amphora in the Fogg Collections, only to have the next generation instructed to restore them...
While the cause of the destroyer of the snow penis’ action is cause for great sadness, as is any violence (“gendered” or not), undergraduate pranks often depend as much on the penile as the puerile. If the representation of an erect phallus moves her to violence, perhaps the penis police should try to avoid museums and sculpture gardens. Since ice is, by definition, a temporary medium, the destroyer of the penis might have restrained herself and let nature take her course, which inevitably takes care of the “problem...
Leave it to a nine-foot snow penis to spark a fierce First-Amendment debate. The legitimacy of free speech rights is being challenged on Harvard’s campus once again, this time by the very people who have invoked them...
...phallus-breakers, the sculpture’s defenders labeled it a legitimate exercise of “free speech.” It is difficult to accept such a defense at face value, since “speech” suggests that those who built the snow penis were actually saying something...
This fracas should not concern free speech, when the creators themselves acknowledge they had nothing profound to say. Transforming the question of free speech to defend displays like the snow phallus – created not in spite of it being obscene, but because it was obscene—corrupts the First Amendment’s legitimacy as a valid defense for real artistic expression...