Wasilla High School, the alma mater of Sarah and Todd Palin, the school that Bristol was attending when she got knocked up, and the school that the younger Palin’s presumably still attend if they’re not being home schooled or some such nonsense, recently put up a new statue on
"The Warrior Within"
their front lawn.
The artists, Jim Dault and Shala Dobson, say it isn’t actually meant to look like a vagina. “Emerging from the powerful stone form are two warrior shields encircled by glowing feathers. The bronze shield has a hand impression showing good deeds. The aluminum shield has a flame symbol representing the spark of inspiration. The stone form represents the strong material from which a warrior is made,” is the description they gave of the piece, which is entitled “The Warrior Within.” Wasilla High’s sports teams are The Warriors.
Nonetheless, it looks like a vagina and all of the students saw that right away. At first the school covered the statue up but, I guess, they thought about it, figured they were stuck with it, might as well suck it up and pretend that all the snickerers are just immature and uncouth types who don’t understand art.
The problem is, it doesn’t actually look like “the spark of inspiration,” whatever that looks like. Like the front grille of the ill-fated Edsel or the floral paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, it looks like a vagina.
In my opinion, the school administrators should not turn away from that and pretend it’s not so. They should embrace it. A vagina is a beautiful thing. 50% of all the people on Earth have one, and about 95% of the other 50% spend most of their time and effort trying to get into one. It is the portal through which we all entered this world, and the source of the greatest physical pleasure known to man. I guess, come to think of it, “spark of inspiration” does apply.
Georgia O’Keeffe always denied that she was painting vaginas, too, and perhaps she wasn’t, deliberately. They’re just flowers, she always said. Nonetheless, through the sensuality of the flowers, she expressed their sexual power, the nature of their nature, the eternal reproductive essence of their feminine force.
This statue does that as well. As long as you see it as a vagina.
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