Australia’s Mona asked a court to reverse its ruling that allowed men inside a women’s only space.

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Whew, if the bear meme didn’t bring out the usual crowd of assholes, this sure did.

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Does a bear shit in the ladies restroom?

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Unless there is a woods in the bathroom, nope. But the bear will steal your picnic basket. (The assholes will also eat all the apples off your apple trees and break the limbs off of them in the process).

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It’s honestly shocking how many people are missing the point.

They just need to read the article and it basically spells it out. The whole thing is meant to be shocking in order to draw attention to the stupid laws and get them fixed.

It’s right there, both the motive and the solution.

At least with the bear it was less well documented and kinda took some background knowledge and extra thought to understand. But this one is just RIGHT THERE spelled out in the article 🤷

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Another fun fact, two men actually sued. One dropped the issue after being told the purpose of the art installation and realised he was about to be made a spectacle, the other went full steam ahead.

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Yup. Thousands of years of female exclusion - and it still continues in circles to this day, but one museum and now they’re crying about basically re-excluding women from everything as a “thought exercise.”

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You either replied to the wrong person or one of us doesn’t understand what the other was saying. (And that person could be me.)

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It was but it was more krass so I reworded it and went at it again. ;)

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MONA is famous here for doing all sorts of controversial shit. This one time they sacrificed and butchered a cow live on stage. A women’s only space is tame and on brand. Everyone’s been baited

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As a work of art designed to generate controversy I’d say it’s been wildly successful.

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It’s actually pretty wild how successful it is. All of Walshie’s/MONA’s previous stunts have only generated local controversy. This one has transcended borders. Most of us here have grown pretty desensitised to Walshie’s antics so personally it’s quite fun seeing the world get a taste of undiluted Walshie.

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