Weekend Question 2: How Out of Your Mind Do You Have to Be to Do This?
Just when you think you’ve seen it all…..
This is really ill (HT Michelle Malkin):
Photographer Jill Greenberg has whipped up a storm of controversy with her new exhibition, End Times. The pictures in the show, for which she deliberately provoked tearful outbursts from children by taking away lollipops she had just given them, have been described by some as tantamount to child abuse.
I don’t give a damn what the topic was; it happened to be (surprise-not) an attempt at an anti-warChristian “statement” (thanks to Amy Ridenour for the clarification; the war in Iraq is just part of a larger objection to fundamentalist Christian beliefs.–Ed). What Greenberg did is not “tantamount” to child abuse, it IS child abuse. And it should be actionable child abuse.
And, yes, this post is in the “Business Moves” category, because Greenberg’s exhibit is a cynical version of exactly that, expressed thusly: “She utilizes this uncomfortable image as a way to break through to the pop mainstream and begin a national dialogue.” — Which is why I’m not linking to the exhibit.
Anti-Christian statement. Read the moron\’s press release: http://www.paulkopeikingallery.com/artists/greenberg/exhibitions/endtimes/pressrelease.htm
Comment by Amy Ridenour — July 29, 2006 @ 10:30 pm
#1, thanks for reading the whole release. I caught the start of the 5th paragraph and didn\’t see the larger objection.
Comment by TBlumer — July 29, 2006 @ 11:41 pm
No problem. Of course, I had to shampoo my brain afterward. She tortures children, however briefly (yes, I realize the use of the word “torture” is overinflated past accuracy, but as she herself entitled one of the photos “torture” the word seemed apt with this disclaimer) in order to draw attention to her own views, which is another way of drawing attention to herself.
Harming children to get attention for oneself sounds like Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
(http://earthops.org/munchausen.html) Certinly, making children cry, taking pictures of their distress and then making a show of it in order to draw attention to one’s own religious and political beliefs is not a classic form of the disorder, but, heck, this is a new century and we must be alert to new experiences.
Comment by Amy Ridenour — July 30, 2006 @ 12:10 am
#3, if the left is going to define some of the things any interrogator with a brain would do with adults who may have information that could save the lives of our soldiers as torture, you and I can sure as bleep call what she is doing to these kids torture.
And I agree with the potential MSBP *diagnosis.*
Comment by TBlumer — July 30, 2006 @ 12:43 am