tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001252277603026900.post7830661984221698105..comments2013-09-24T18:53:57.060-05:00Comments on Anonymous Bosh: Abortions for Art at YaleAnonymous Boshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07838660733376754284noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001252277603026900.post-65864767960677739342008-04-17T13:30:00.000-05:002008-04-17T13:30:00.000-05:00It make me want to weep and vomit.The site is now ...It make me want to weep and vomit.<BR/><BR/>The site is now down. She has her debate.<BR/><BR/>tripAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001252277603026900.post-46800689871153010022008-04-17T10:34:00.000-05:002008-04-17T10:34:00.000-05:00#1 By goffman (Unregistered User) 5:07am on April ...#1 By goffman (Unregistered User) 5:07am on April 17, 2008<BR/>I am deeply sorry and disturbed by his project. It was wrong for the student to do this, for the department to approve of this and for the school not to know. I am ashamed as a Yale Student. I am also deeply concerned about the mental stability of this student.<BR/><BR/>#2 By Molly Clark-Barol SY '08 (Unregistered User) 5:19am on April 17, 2008<BR/>WHAT KIND OF SELF-AGGRANDIZING FOOL DOES THAT???<BR/><BR/>way to throw the entire pro-choice movement under the bus.<BR/><BR/>i don't care what kind of severely misplaced avant-garde aspiration she has, or how much repeated exposure to art theory may have damaged her brain (which it obviously has). this is repellent on every level:<BR/><BR/>physical: this is maybe the most viscerally disgusting thing that i have ever heard of. 'nuff said. the sheer physical danger that she puts herself in by repeatedly inducing miscarriage, not to mention the possibility of STD infection (and yes i know that they got tested, but she was absolutely playing with fire) boggles the mind. you might as well repeatedly induce tumor growth and receive chemotherapy (the analogy carries over into all other ways that i find this insulting).<BR/><BR/>intellectual: what kind of advisor approves this? it is hands down the most egregious negligence of responsibility that i have ever heard of. all political implications aside (and, since i doubt this pia character could be in ignorance of them, i can only assume she is as self-indulgent and attention-hungry as her advisee), YOU PUT YOUR STUDENT'S HEALTH AT RISK. i hope this woman is fired, not only for having a hand in this travesty, but for the damage she has done to yale's reputation as an institution of intellectual (not to mention moral) integrity.<BR/><BR/>political: as gabe already noted, the timing of this could not be worse. i can not imagine a situation in which this does not get included as a development in the historical context of the continued erosion of the right to choose (not to mention the effect on sex education nationally, and, insofar as the US is responsible for providing or witholding funding for international programs to empower women in sexual decision making, internationally). she says that she hopes to engage people in dialogue about this project (the "connection between art and the human body"), but she obviously crawled out from under a rock if she think that a conversation about the meaning of art is the only "dialogue" that will result. and the results of this dialogue will be damaging to every woman in this country. the only political logic i can imagine for this is that she is a crazed, kamikaze pro-lifer. if that's the case, she couldn't have done better for herself.<BR/><BR/>moral: granted, we get into murkier waters here. i am unabashedly pro-choice, if that wasn't already obvious, but this is still arguably the worst offense. congratulations, aliza shvarts '08: you have single-handedly trivialized not only an entire generation and a half's fight to gain and retain the right to choose, through harassment and against massive odds, but also history of women's struggles, not only politically, but with the emotional, moral, and spiritual impacts of the choice to terminate a pregnancy. you also spit upon every couple who has tried, and failed, sometimes repeatedly, to have children. it is the emotional impact of these struggles, emotional impact that you shamelessly exploit, not explore, in your senior project, that informs the disgust i feel on the other three levels already articulated. frankly, the debate about whether or not your project is "art" or not holds absolutely no interest for me. if you, in this act of supreme, at best, thoughtlessness, and, at worst, selfish disregard for good taste, sensitivity, and moral, intellectual, and political responsibility DO manage to become a success in the art world, crowned queen of process-driven concept art, i will think the less of it.<BR/><BR/>shame on you.<BR/><BR/>#3 By A real feminist (Unregistered User) 5:21am on April 17, 2008<BR/>Wow. I don't want to call her an idiot, but I think people should have more respect for their own bodies. But if this is what she wants to do in the name of art, then I guess it's technically her freedom.<BR/><BR/>#4 By omg (Unregistered User) 5:26am on April 17, 2008<BR/>this is going to be a DISASTER<BR/><BR/>#5 By (Anonymous) 7:09am on April 17, 2008<BR/>How the hell could a Yale professor have approved this project? Even if you set aside for a moment the utter tastelessness and depravity of it (and this is coming from someone who's pro-choice), isn't repeatedly forcing miscarriages a serious threat to the student's health? Pia Lindman should be fired. This is unconscionable.<BR/><BR/>#6 By (Anonymous) 7:51am on April 17, 2008<BR/>This is what passes for a senior project these days? Had I known that I wouldn't have wasted countless hours researching and writing a 45 page paper on Anglo-Spanish trade relations in the 16th and 17th Century Americas. I'd have become an art major and shit on something and call it art. I hope the department fires the professor and fails the student.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com