I guess looking at her actually does turn you rock hard.

Would be a statue with no regret in my face.

Not so sure, don't you have to look into her eyes?

wouldn’t be a problem for me im looking at the wrong eyes the whole time

That looks great. You make me want to be with Medusa

Makes pertinent the phrase: "My eyes are up here."

idk it feels kinda icky since shes the symbol for sexual assault victims

I swear this is breathing is discrimination against the dead level shit

i dont think they are discriminating against anyone or that the art they made is bad

i just think that its important to know the meaning associated the figures and symbols we use in art

maybe the artist doesnt care or maybe they do. i dont know. but at least they know now

First time I hear about this associated meaning too. Typically in contemporary art I'd say you often see Medusa used as a symbol of female defiance in face of a male dominated society.

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It is important to know meanings of symbols for sure, but meanings differ from groups, cultures, background knowledge and personal experiences.

We are talking about an ancient myth here, if I took an ancient myth to be the symbol of some movement I found it doesn’t invalidate all current and past meanings connected to it.

It’s kind of unfair to push the meaning it has for you and your group to others. I’m not sure if I’m being clear, but I hopenyou get my point. ;)

Medusa being the symbol for sexual assault is not unanimously known in the world, is extremely recent in history terms, and being taken as such a symbol doesn’t cancel all past symbology connected to her and her myth.

It’s actually controversial if she was raped or if she just seduced Poseidon, translations are tricky, and translating from an ancient greek is not an exact science. The ambiguity could be also proposital according to some scholars… but who knows? Maybe we’ll never know for sure, there’ll be theories and different versions. That’s why myths are powerful.

That said, I’m not acting with prejudice or discrimination against any group. I’ve written a bit more about in the other reply in this thread.

oh yeah, i kind of forgot that there are two popular versions of her story and that the one i’m more familiar with is the lesser known one.

also i don’t find your art discriminatory or inherently offensive. tbh what really weirded me out were some of the comments

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