By Max Roland
A
statue of Venus must be removed – it discriminates against women, says
an equal opportunities officer. Institutionalized feminism has finally
closed the great circle between Islamism, the Middle Ages, and
"progressive" moral terror.
"Nuditas
criminalis" – criminal nudity. This is how the European Middle Ages
largely viewed the sculptures of the ancient world. The Romans and
Greeks celebrated human beauty, but in the "Dark Ages" it fell victim to
ecclesiastical dogma.
Over
hundreds of years, we have slowly but surely left such things behind
us. From the Renaissance to the Neoclassical period, Europe not only
revived the art and architectural styles of antiquity, but also
gradually buried the religiously prudish narrow-mindedness of the Middle
Ages. Or so it was thought. But this narrow-mindedness is making a
comeback, albeit under different auspices.
Where
the priest once stood, there now stands the equal opportunities officer
– but the fury of a regressive prudishness remains essentially the
same. The case of the "Venus de Medici" – an ancient statue that has
become a political issue – demonstrates that modern regressive feminism
and everything that is often summarized under a term like "woke madness"
now seems like a fundamentalist, religious, medieval dogma.
A
bronze replica of this Roman statue has now been removed from a federal
office because an equal opportunities officer was bothered by the
depiction of the naked Roman goddess of love. There were allegedly
complaints. The statue may be incompatible with the Federal Equal
Opportunities Act, according to a report by Bild (read more).heremore).
There's
nothing sexist about this statue, of course: The Venus de Medici is
about as misogynistic as Michelangelo's David is misogynistic. No one
would ever argue the latter—but the Venus becomes a political issue. A
scandal.
Behind
this lies an ideology that, like in the Middle Ages, places prudishness
and moralism above all else. Its illogical dogmatism could almost be
considered a religion. It calls itself "progressive," but it is anything
but. It is, in fact, so regressive that, strictly speaking, such an
equation does an injustice even to the historical Middle Ages.
When
an "equal opportunities officer" suddenly acts the way a Saudi Arabian
morality watchdog would, it's called a "full circle moment"—we as a
society have regressed. Yet this is precisely the core of woke madness
and regressive fundamentalist feminism: a yesterday's prudishness that
could also fit into Taliban Afghanistan. They would have removed the
Venus statue from one of their offices just as a federal equal
opportunities officer did.
The
mechanisms behind this are the same as in fundamentalist Islam—the
immediate association of nudity, especially female nudity, with
sexuality and sinfulness. This logic culminates in the hijab, the niqab,
and the burqa. Modern feminism has long since reached the point of
absurdly turning the headscarf, imposed on women, into a symbol of
"empowerment."
The
dogma is the same: Here, modern feminism and Islamism join hands.
Strangely enough, they also join hands in the total sexualization of the
female body. It no longer has anything to do with what we understand as
Western values. This postmodern nihilism ends not in liberation and
equality, but in the iconoclastic moral terror of a dark past.
Throughout
history, those who toppled statues and banished works of art were never
the torchbearers of freedom and progress, but rather their
gravediggers. From the excesses of the Reformation to the National
Socialist and Communist concept of art to Islamism, those who censored,
removed, and outlawed art with virtue and dogma behind them were and are
always the enemies of freedom and the thwarters, even the reversals, of
progress.
The
Equal Opportunities Officer specifically responsible for this issue
probably just wanted to prove she was working with her rebellion against
the Venus statue—after all, she's one of dozens of Equal Opportunities
Officers who have to do something all day. Instead of institutionalizing
moral terrorism, these officials could be given more meaningful work.
It would be desperately needed, given these excesses.
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