>>5696268>>5696270Next to the covered painting, Herman Sucklinge-Bell gestures with the flamingo croquet mallet:
-Love never lasts, my dear. Instead, one should dedicate the Self to a Cause, a Great Endeavour - an undertaking which will see oneself memorialised for posterity... I have tried to destroy this picture, of the most beautiful woman in mythological history, as a protest against Witenagemot House for destroying the goddess of the Cult Of Liberty - that most elusive Temptress of our history. Justice is an element of beauty as much as colour and outline on canvas. This mutilated figure of femininity represents the desecration of the dignity of women when beheld by the rapacious gaze of men. You see, what the plight of women demands is emancipation, enfranchisement - Universal Suffrage. Consequently, what we demand is for women to have, say, perhaps twice to three times the vote of men, nay - five times the vote of men, as restitution against this hateful historic regime of oppression and maltreatment. This is not at all an unreasonable request, I understand the comparable allocation of supervoting stock possessing disproportionate voting power relative to the economic or beneficial interest of founders is a precedent well established within the governance of the modern corporation. Hence Art is a legitimate target in our campaign against chauvinism; when you attack the representation of a thing, it is almost as if you have injured the very grievance itself...!
