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Old 11-11-2020, 07:36 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Marie Monday View Post
@Lisna, you make a very good point about what Mary herself would have thought of it. If there is good reason to assume she wouldn't have liked it, it's stupid and disrespectful to make a memorial like this.
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Why? She’s dead. She doesn’t know it exists.

It’s what we think of it.
The point of memorialising is to honour someone for their achievement, and I think speculating about the dead person's opinion is valid. The naked figurine seems like a slap in the face to MW's feminism.
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