French feminist group Osez Le Feminisme has complained the statue represents a ‘sexual assault’ because the woman had the kiss ‘forced upon her’ by the sailor.
The group, which has started a petition calling for it be removed, also claims the photographer who took the original photo – Alfred Eisenstaedt – said the sailor had grabbed and tried to kiss all the women around him before the shot was taken.
A spokesman for Osez Le Feminisme said: ‘We cannot accept that the Caen Memorial erected a sexual assault as a symbol of peace.
‘We therefore request the removal of this sculpture as soon as possible.
“The sailor could have laughed with these women, hugged them, asked them if he could kiss them with joy.
‘No, he chose to grab them with a firm hand to kiss them. It was an assault.’
The petition has so far attracted more than 700 signatures.
However, Stephane Grimaldi, director of the Caen Memorial Museum, said the woman in the photograph had always maintained she had been happy to have been kissed.
‘She never considered that she was assaulted,’ he said.
Feminists Demand Iconic and Famous WWII Statue Be Torn Down The Federalist Papers
That is the statue that the feminists want torn down from the famous, iconic photograph celebrating the end of WWII.
Now, if that statue was of 3 mommies licking each other, that same feminist group would not say shit.
We know it too.
Each day, there is another reason to hate liberals.
