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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