“By depicting women in that role, by depicting women under a muscular man, was a common artistic form of its time, which is out of step with our cultural expression of the moment.”
— Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Feburary 2011, outrageously outraged (or is it gobsmackingly gobsmacked?) over “The Triumph of Civic Virtue,” a statue erected in Queens, in 1922.
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