1. Contemporary portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft
2. New statue of Mary Wollstonecraft
Fuck all the fucks off
2. New statue of Mary Wollstonecraft
Fuck all the fucks off
How it started. How it’s going https://twitter.com/RynnBrooke/status/1326124358255996928
Several people have pointed out that this is a statue *to* Wollstonecraft not *of* her. There’s an entire chapter on ‘Modesty’ in Vindication in which she excoriates the prestiging of women’s bodies instead of their minds. To restate: this statue can fuck all the fucks off.