Don't mess with Nymphs!

Hoorah ! The nymphs are back!

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about , John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs, apre Rephaelite painting, was taken down from Manchester Art Gallery , to "provoke a conservation". The guardian notes this as"soft porn" and others say it should be taken down because of the "me too" campaign and the acceptance of rape such paintings bring (interestingly there's a Greek myth of a nymph seducing another man and that's where we get the term hermaphrodite from as for some reason the man and nymph were merged).

In short leftist feminists went into frenzied overdrive, about a  Victorian painting of a man being sexually seduced and enticed by several naked water nymphs. The result was a public backlash against what was in effect back door censorship of artwork - the second signal of a authoritarian / fascist state is control over art and writing- and the painting is now back where it belongs.

It is typically strange of the feminist left and puts them into the sane category as their opposites for equality as the feminist would want , e.g. Haredi Jews, conservative Muslims and people who genuinely think classic art is the same as porn (maybe so, but it is generally tasteful). Yet these are the same people who think it's natural and wonderful to breast feed in full public view ( not even discreetly) and who want to change public toilet and changing room norms. As usual it's all about power, rather than the subject matter, power to choose for you what is an isn't good, tasteful or allowed. I'm glad the British public didn't allow this to happen to this painting.