Yes, avoid it at all costs. In fact, just keep your kids home, period. You can continue your lazy parenting, and you won’t have to worry as they continue to behave inappropriately when confronted with anything “different”. Whatever you do, don’t use it as a forum for discussion with your kids. Just hustle them by, so they don’t embarrass you with their inappropriate behavior. Which then makes a bigger deal out of it so they act out more each time, as it gets such a great reaction out of you. And then they start doing it with real people, and so on and so on, until they’re obnoxious adults who whistle and hoot at women from their cars and try to grope them at bars. Whatever you do, don’t use this as a teaching tool for them to learn to respect art, women, whatever.

All in all, when I was a kid, I would have been thrilled if this was the statue that was on display as the public art near our house. Instead, my mom used to ride her bike daily (with me on the back) past the Chinese warriors at Volunteer Park (they’re now downtown at SAM). For some reason, maybe because they were tall and so stern-looking, they scared the hell out of me – I thought they were going to come after me one day. This woman looks like a woman we all might know. She’s striking a pose many of us have struck – it’s all just too much, gotta think, need to clear my head – I’ve done it, we all have one of those days. She doesn’t seem terrifying at all unless you’ve got issues with a normal, non-Baywatch female body, as so many of us have.

Take a look in the mirror- the Nordstrom outfit you are looking at is nothing but an illusion, you are my equal, this statue represents nothing more than REAL- Natural human beings. At their BEST.

“…No one ever made David put on underwear…”

“Ahh an interesting comparision. The statue of Daviid is of a king contemplating his batlle with Goliath. What is this figure thinking? Based on her squating stance and facial expression – it doesn’t look like she is having fun. Is she doing housework in the nude and is trying to figure out what Is that substance on the wall or thinking what could have been is she stayed single and childless? Is she considering taking the dog to the pound as this is the third night in a row that she has stepped in dog waste on her way to the bathroom? Is she in fact a homeless person or even a camper going to the bathroom herself in a parking lot or in the woods and dealing with IBS?”

I dont think it is up to the viewer to dertermin what is appropriate or not based on what the sculpture is thinking. If I am understanding you correctly (Please correct me if I am wrong), you are saying that a nude David is okay because it represents David contemplating his battle with Goliath, but this piece is not okay because of her pose. I dont see how that is relevant at all. I am sure that I could do a little research (I am not exactly educated in fine art) and come up with hundreds of nude sculptures that were accepted in public places by the public, with less controversy than this. I was simply using David as a very popular piece that everyone knows.

If all it takes is a sculptures thoughts to be publicized, for it to be publicly accepted, maybe we should give this sculpture a thought, or backstory so we can end this rediculousness.

Here are my ideas:
1) She got sucked into an interest only ARM and the payment balooned. Her house was foreclosed on and she lost the shirt off her back. Now she is crouching down trying to keep everyone from seeing her.
2) She was sitting in the privacy of the restroom at Rooty’s when all of a sudden the walls were torn down around her.
3) Amnesia victim on her way to highline hospital. She is not sure where her clothes went, but all of a sudden she ended up in an open parking lot.

I am not sure what her thoughts or intentions are, but if this helps it get accepted, than I am all for making up scenarios.