Harvard’s still buzzing about the snow-penis, erected and then deflated last week, with the victim-feminists in full hue and cry. My favorite you-cant’-make-this-up quote is as follows:
Women’s Studies Lecturer Diane L. Rosenfeld, who teaches Women, Violence and the Law this semester, said that the implications of the snow phallus go beyond the legitimacy of the statue’s presence. “The ice sculpture was erected in a public space, one that should be free from menacing reminders of women’s sexual vulnerability,” Rosenfeld wrote in an e-mail yesterday. She said the snow penis follows a long line of public phallic symbols, including the Washington Monument and missiles.
A simple question: how do you make a missile that looks like a vagina?