{"id":2846,"date":"2012-10-09T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:47:37","slug":"nude-painting-of-canadas-pm-has-some-folks-in-a-tizzy-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/nude-painting-of-canadas-pm-has-some-folks-in-a-tizzy-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Nude Painting of Canada\u2019s PM has Some Folks in a Tizzy: update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in May I mentioned that there was a kerfuffle<\/a> over a nude painting of Canada’s Prime Minister being removed from public view, with the artist, Margaret Sutherland, crying censorship.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in that earlier post:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been some buzz in the air as of late up here in Soviet Canuckistan; it seems that nudity is still \u201ca thing\u201d. Granted, it\u2019s a nude painting of the Prime Minister riffing off the whole \u201cEmperor has no clothes\u201d thing in a reclining pose invoking classical nude studies\u2026 but it\u2019s rather quaint that people would bother to get worked up about it in this day and age to the extent that our national broadcaster, the CBC,\u00a0bothers to repeat the story. Granted there appears to be more titillation than shock. The only person really upset seems to be the artist, all steamed up about censorship \u2013 apparently her work is on display at a local library and they take it down or cover it up when the space it is displayed in is used for children\u2019s activities. The horror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, apparently it’ s not just the artist. I stand corrected.<\/div>\n
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Some buffoon from halfway across the country (Alberta, as it happens) \u00a0took it upon himself to file a complaint<\/a> with the Ontario Human Rights Commission alleging that this painting constitutes sexual harassment of children. Fortunately, the tribunal dismissed the claim out of hand. Please, won’t someone think of the children.<\/div>\n
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Emperor Haute Couture – Margaret Sutherland (edited for the sake of the children)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sutherland laughed at the suggestion that exhibiting the painting would constitute sexual harassment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI suppose we could sue every male artist that ever painted a portrait of a female nude,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed. What’s even more comical is that it made national news. It’s kind of endearing that this kind of thing can still raise eyebrows in our quaint nation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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