What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The guy who designs and makes pope's dresses and hats is gay. He also has a store selling perfumes exclusively to gays and some are directly for gay catholic priests.

https://youtu.be/UxD6T4-0I8w?si=AXHHkBVST658_LWX

1975 I sat next to a young Jesuit who was on his way from the US to Rome to be defrocked. "I can't handle the double standard." He said he wasn't gay but don't they all say that? /1970s judgy shit.

I wished him luck and advised he could come down to Sigonella for some American food if he had the urge.

[The Magic Pudding.]

There's 1500 statues in London, but only 50 are of named women.  100 are of animals,.

That's shocking, women need to lift their game and start doing stuff worthy of being statueafied.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There's 1500 statues in London, but only 50 are of named women.  100 are of animals,.

That's shocking, women need to lift their game and start doing stuff worthy of being statueafied.

Statufication is a weird concept.  But if people insist on them, the patriarchs could recognize the contributions statue-worthy women have already made. Radical notion, I realize.

Boru

[FrustratedFool]

Given the number of famous women associated with London, like Victoria, Elizabeth 1 and 2, Diana, Florence Nightingale, Virginia Woolf, Boudica, Thatcher, Woolsencraft, Winehouse, George Eliot, and probably a load more, it seems really odd.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Given the number of famous women associated with London, like Victoria, Elizabeth 1 and 2, Diana, Florence Nightingale, Virginia Woolf, Boudica, Thatcher, Woolsencraft, Winehouse, George Eliot, and probably a load more, it seems really odd.

I’ve always felt there are better ways to commemorate an individual’s contributions to society than statues. 

As far as I know, there are no statues of Rosalind Franklin, but there are a ton of research facilities, scholarships, and science prizes named for her. Seems much more appropriate.

Boru

[The Magic Pudding.]

Given the number of famous women associated with London, like Victoria, Elizabeth 1 and 2, Diana, Florence Nightingale, Virginia Woolf, Boudica, Thatcher, Woolsencraft, Winehouse, George Eliot, and probably a load more, it seems really odd.

Ye but people statues are kinda old fashioned, and women weren't often allowed to do much.

Does Dorothy Hodgkin have one?

Dorothy Hodgkin - In Our Time

[Anomalocaris]

statues are a way to commemorate a person at a frequently visited public spot where visitors are generally not expected to be steeped in the reasons why the subject of the statues are worthy of filing away in a corner of their long term memory.

[FrustratedFool]

Given the number of famous women associated with London, like Victoria, Elizabeth 1 and 2, Diana, Florence Nightingale, Virginia Woolf, Boudica, Thatcher, Woolsencraft, Winehouse, George Eliot, and probably a load more, it seems really odd.

I’ve always felt there are better ways to commemorate an individual’s contributions to society than statues. 

As far as I know, there are no statues of Rosalind Franklin, but there are a ton of research facilities, scholarships, and science prizes named for her. Seems much more appropriate.

Boru

Both seem good to me.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Alien: What are those things.
Human: Statutes of statesmen.
Alien: What are "statesmen"?
Human: Dead politicians.

[Mister Agenda]

Given the number of famous women associated with London, like Victoria, Elizabeth 1 and 2, Diana, Florence Nightingale, Virginia Woolf, Boudica, Thatcher, Woolsencraft, Winehouse, George Eliot, and probably a load more, it seems really odd.

Ye but people statues are kinda old fashioned, and women weren't often allowed to do much.

Does Dorothy Hodgkin have one?

Dorothy Hodgkin - In Our Time

There's a bust of her in the Oxford Museum.