Nice girls don't rant...

[Selena]

http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/12/frenc...val-of-sexual-assault-kiss-sculpture-4902841/

Of all the assaults in all the cities in all of France this is what this group is up in arms about???????

 

[don44]

They have nothing better to do!

 

[Snake45]

The insane people are coming out and showing the world who they are. This is a GOOD thing.

 

[Selena]

They have nothing better to do!

There are any number of better things to do. Support for the women actually violently assaulted springs to mind. The areas of their country where women are falling under the chains of Sharia law springs a close second.

Please note, I'm half a fingernail away from a rant on this... event. I called my Ranters Anon sponsor but she's even more outraged than I am. Please don't get me started, I'm going to the Veterans home today and don't want to depress my TOB's.

 

[mohavesam]

French feminists??? - was that a punchline?

 

[wolfsong]

French feminists??? - was that a punchline?

I believe, but I'm not sure, that this group's membership is actually made up of men...

 

[Robes]

Selena...TOB's?

Go ahead,.... rant. What you may not realize is that there are others that feel the same way, and it is nice to know that you are not alone when you read someones total disgust with "stupid".

I think the sculpture is GREAT! REAL art, instead of some of the $#!+ and crappola I have seen that has the label "art".

 

[stevemb]

If not a rant, we'll allow you a one time only conniption fit. Let'er rip !

 

[Colonialgirl]

YOu can rant fro me Selena; I bet they are a ugly bunch that no one would take out UNLESS paid.

 

[Jeffro57]

"#}%^€ France!"

(I borrowed a quote from Ted Nugent)

 

[Selena]

YOu can rant fro me Selena; I bet they are a ugly bunch that no one would take out UNLESS paid.

Hi CG,

One of my TOB's read the article... He claimed the persons (not an exact quote) involved probably are the great granddaughters of the Frenchwoman that blamed their shaved heads for our boys not kissing them when their city, town or village was liberated. I just love those guys.

Robes: ToB is an affectionate nickname for my guys, it stands for tough old birds. At one time there was a guy there (may there be Jack Daniels at Fiddler's Green for him) I equally affectionately called my 3B. Which, stood for battling bastard of Bastogne.

 

[Mike J]

Selena if you need to rant go ahead & get it out of your system. It isn't good to let things build up to much. Personally I suspect the people that are upset about that statue have bigger problems anyway.

 

[toysoldier]

A life-size version of that statue was driven across the U.S. a few years ago. The guys stopped here to visit my uncle, a Dec.7 survivor. They had gotten acquainted as my uncle worked on gathering stories of servicemen. The statue was quite a hit in the Appleby's parking lot. I have a copy of a photo taken during the WWII memorial dedication, with my uncle standing beside the gal who identified herself as the nurse in the photo.

 

[Selena]

Too me this isn't a statue of a sexual encounter but a celebration of life. Perhaps this sailor was just back from the European theater waiting orders to go to the Pacific. It's a reminder that men were going back to wives and sweethearts instead of to the jungles or boiler rooms in pursuit of war. Of the nurse that no longer would have to care for the victims of warfare and could go back to the injuries and illnesses of peacetime.

It was the realization there would soon be no more rationing or meatless Wednesdays. And in many ways the symbol this sailor was getting his life back, a life he had put on hold in service of a higher calling and a greater good. In my mind it would take an extremely sick individual to read a sexual connotation into this statue.

I've sat and listened to older women describe VJ day in Lafayette, Indianapolis, Chicago and even Fort Wayne. I can close my eyes and see the streets to the circle blocked off and a "big band" playing underneath the Soldiers and Sailors monument (8 to the bar no doubt) while people danced in the streets. Church bells ringing for hours and in Lafayette a very impromptu and very illegal fireworks display that is all symbolized in that statue from a photograph.

In my mind I see the sailor seeing his wife or sweetheart on some farm or in some factory that he would live to go home to. I wonder if the nurse had a husband or sweetheart in the Pacific that she knew in her heart had been slated to help invade the Japanese home Islands and would be spared that because the war was over.

In my mind this is not an act of aggression but a celebration of peace. Only a dangerously sick individual would prefer the horrors of war enough to be offended by the celebration of peace.

Item last and directly to these French feminists. Not all sex is rape, some of us, most of us were conceived as the expression of love between a man and a woman and grew up within the aura of that love that has touched our lives from the day we were born. I shutter to think what kind of evil conceived you.

As one of my TOB's put it to me long ago...
December 7, 1941 Tojo showed the boys he could attack us anytime he pleased.
August 14, 1945 the boys showed the stubborn Nip he couldn't get away with it.
Here's to the boys, bless em all.


(My name is Selena and I am a ranter. )

 

[737tdi]

Oh lord, now the lunatics of America will come out against this same statue which is just out side the Midway museum in San Diego.









Karl

 

[Viking Queen]

Those feminists need to get a real life. . . It's been how many years since American soldiers saved their country from Nazi controll and disaster? Sheesh. . . .

VQ

 

[WendyZXZ]

These women(???) are "bleeped" in the head. If I heard the war was over I would be the one kissing everybody I saw, old men, young men, women both young and old, children. It would be a celebration of the end to the war and the end to loss of American lives. There is nothing sexual or assault in that statue. It is a sign of relief that fewer lives would be lost and life can go back to normal.

 

[cruzerlou]

"#}%^€ France!"

(I borrowed a quote from Ted Nugent)

I'm with you. The next time Germany invades it, they can keep it !!! We [ the U.S. of A. ] bailed their a$$ out 3 times in the 20th century, WWI, WW II and South East Asia. Way too much blood and treasure spent on a country who won't stand up for it's self much appreciate or stand along side us .
Lou