@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.
About the second point, I agree that barbie doll culture is harmful, but this statue doesn't feel barbie doll-ish to me, even though it is an idealised female body. I mean that it doesn't feel like a sex object, but maybe my judgement is off here. Related to what I said about respect, I agree with hawk that nudity as shame is a notion we need to get rid of, which is why I think it would be more useful to make nude male statues customary (and yes, while we're at it let's make those statues less ridiculously beauty standard conforming)
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I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.
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