Oh For Christ’s Sake
Comments (0) This has a two-part punchline:
November 25th is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and to raise awareness about rape in Italy, the organization Telefono Donna has been placing posters in major Italian cities putting the issue directly in the face of the public.
Across the midsection reads, “Who pays for man’s sins?”, while the copy reads, “Only four percent of women who suffer sexual violence report their assailants”.
The media agent gets +5 points for avant-garde nudity even if it does immediately raise the ire of male politicians like city councillor Maurizio Cadeo, who promises, “”I’ll do everything in my power to stop this poster going up.”
Not to be outdone, the Vatican has threatened to sue… for copyright infringement. Indecency notwithstanding, the Catholic Church has forgone the usual aneurysm about unsuppressed sexual innuendo and instead asserted that it owns the copyright to the crucifixion symbol. (I will pause for a moment to allow that to sink in.) I would have thought that God owned the rights to the cross but evidently this one has been rendered unto Caesar.
Ironically, the Vatican has not offered an official statement regarding the nation’s tragic statistic of unavenged sexual violence.
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