Snow Censors

Snow Censors

by A Person Published on March 5th, 2010, 8:51 pm Rift: Life

Nude snowmen - and ladies - must now be clothed in order to protect community sensibilities

BBC Police in the US state of New Jersey have ordered a family to cover up their snow sculpture of the famous nude Venus de Milo after a neighbour complained.

Eliza Gonzalez sculpted the snow-woman with her son and daughter on her front lawn in Rahway following a snowstorm.

Many people praised their creation, but a police officer told them a neighbour had found it too risque, she said.

When given the option of covering the sculpture up or knocking it down, she dressed it in a bikini top and sarong.

"We didn't want to have any problem with the police so we covered it up," Ms Gonzalez told the AFP news agency.

But she now thinks the snowy Venus looks "more objectified and sexualised" than it did before the authorities intervened.

Expect a run on Borat banana hammocks as all snowpersons are treated equitably

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

A few years ago, the US Post Office issued a Christmas stamp with a depiction of some famous statue of Madonna and baby Jesus... but Babt Jesus was nude. There was a furor because of the PENIS on the stamp. At most, 5 pixels, but the Post Office had to withdraw that and replace it with something "less obscene."

Yeah -- this country is a perfect haven for Puritans. And if they ever gain absolute political control, the place would become exactly like Afghanistan under the Taliban.

[Liv]

And we wonder why there is generations on unmotivated, binary un-artistic Americans.