"Charging Bull" Sculptor Offended By "Fearless Girl"

DURING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY THERE WAS AN AWESOME STATUE
UNVEILED IN NEW YORK, WALL STREET TO BE SPECIFIC.
IT WAS
THE FEARLESS GIRL, A FOUR FOOT STATUE FEATURING A YOUNG GIRL
WHO IS BASICALLY STANDING UP TO THE BULLL AND I LOVE THIS BECAUSE
IT'S A REPRESENTATION OF HOW THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE GENDER
EQUALITY AND CORPORATE JOBS, AND IT WENT ALONG WITH THAT
THEME FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY.
HERE'S AN UNEXPECTED TWIST OF THE STORY.
THE PERSON WHO SCULPTED THE BULL IS REALLY UPSET ABOUT THIS
BECAUSE HE FEELS LIKE THE FEARLESS GIRL HAS
COMPLETELY FLIPPED THE MEANING OF THE BALL FROM A POSITIVE
THING TO A NEGATIVE ONE.
LET ME GIVE YOU THE DETAILS.
SINCE MARCH 7, CHARGING BULL HAS FACED OFF AGAINST FEARLESS GIRL,
STATUE OF A GIRL POSED WITH HER FISTS ON HER HIPS THAT WAS
COMMISSIONED BY STATE STREET GLOBAL ADVISORS, A FINANCIAL
FIRM BASED IN BOSTON.
THE ARTIST WHO CREATED THE BULL, HIS
NAME IS ARTURO DI MODICA IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT THIS THAT THE
MEDICARE SAID THAT FEARLESS GIRL WAS AN INSULT TO HIS WORK, WHICH
HE CREATED AFTER THE STOCK MARKET CRASHES IN THE 1980S.
SHE'S THERE ATTACKING THE BULL, HE SAID.
IS SHE?
THAT FAMOUS ATTACK MOVE CALLED STANDING THERE.
I'M SPEECHLESS SOMETIMES.
INSTEAD OF SAYING THIS IS GREAT THAT THE YOUNG GIRL FACING
OFF WITH THE BULL, WE SALUTE THAT.
WE CELEBRATE IT.
IT'S ALL OF THE SUDDEN, WHICH IS ALWAYS WHAT WE
DEAL WITH AS BEING POWERFUL WOMEN AND BEING STRONG.
WE CAN'T JUST BE STRONG WITHOUT BEING A THREAT TO MANHOOD.
I CAN'T JUST BE STRONG.
OR INSULTING MANHOOD.
TO BE FAIR TO HIM AND WHAT HIS LAWYERS
SAY, HE IS NOT UPSET ABOUT THE NOTION OF GENDER EQUALITY.
HE SAYS HE IS A PROPONENT OF THAT, HE JUST DOES NOT LIKE
THAT THIS IMAGERY CHANGES THE SYMBOLISM OF THE BULL, BUT
MY ARGUMENTS ARE THAT WOULD BE LOOK, IT'S NOT THE PALACE
GIRL WHO CHANGED THE SYMBOLISM, IT'S A CORRUPT POLITICAL
SYSTEM, IT'S THE FACT THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE A STOCK MARKET
CRASH IN THE 1980S - WE NOT ONLY HAD A STOCK MARKET CRASH IN THE
1980S, WE CONTINUOUSLY DEAL WITH THIS ECONOMIC SITUATION
WHERE THE VERY PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE DEFENDING AND WALL STREET
HAVE BEEN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF US OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
I LOOKED AT IT AND I DON'T THINK WE SEE WHAT HE
BELIEVES THE BULL MEANS.
FREEDOM IN THE WORLD, PEACE, POWER, AND LOVE.
I DON'T LOOK AT THE
BULL AND SEE THAT.
I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FEARLESS GIRL.
IT'S UNFAIR TO HIM.
IT HAS MORE TO DO WITH WHAT WE HAVE
ALLOWED WALL STREET TO GET AWAY WITH.
IT'S THE SAME SCULPTURE.
YOUR SCULPTURE IS THE SAME THAT IT WAS, LET'S BE OPTIMISTIC
AND POWERFUL IN THE FACE OF SOMETHING THAT IS DAUNTING
AND SCARY AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HER SCULPTURE IS ALL
ABOUT.
YOU HAVE THE STOCK MARKET CRASH, YOU MADE THE BULL.
MY FAVORITE THING IS HE RECALLS.
HE'S AN ARTIST, I GET IT, ARTISTS ARE EMOTIONAL AND I SEE
WHEN SOMEONE TURNS ON ITS HEAD BUT YOU KNOW THE MOVIE THE ROOM?
IT IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE.
I LOVED IT.
YOU LOVE IT BECAUSE IT WAS A STORY OF SOMEONE WHO
SURVIVED.
NO, THERE'S TWO MOVIES CALLED THE ROOM.
THERE IS A
MOVIE, YOURS IS AN OSCAR-NOMINATED THING.
SORRY.
THERE'S A MOVIE CALLED THE ROOM THAT HAS A CULT FOLLOWING
IN LOS ANGELES BECAUSE IT WAS MADE BY THIS REALLY ECCENTRIC
MAYBE HE'S ROMANIAN BUT HE MIGHT BE FROM BROOKLYN, GUY WHO LOOKS
LIKE A VAMPIRE.
IT IS THE BIGGEST TRAIN WRECK OF A MOVIE.
THE GREEN SCREEN, THE VIDEO GOES BY AND THE BACKGROUND
DOESN'T CHANGE AND THEY RECAST ACTRESSES IN THE MIDDLE OF IT
AND IT WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED IN A CERTAIN WAY BUT PEOPLE
STARTED TO APPRECIATE IT MORE AS THE TRAIN WRECK THAT IT IS BUT
THE GUY WHO MADE IT EMBRACES THAT NOW AND SAYS OH, THAT'S A
DIFFERENT WAY TO LOOK AT MY MOVIE AND NOW HE APPEARS WHEN
THEY SCREEN IN LOS ANGELES THE WAY THEY SCREEN ROCKY
HORROR PICTURE SHOW AND THAT'S WHAT THIS GUY NEEDS TO DO.
I LOVE THAT.
YOU KNOW WHAT?
I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THIS ORIGINALLY
THOUGHT IS IT AND ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SOMETHING THAT IS
LEFT FOR THE VIEWER TO INTERPRET?
OR THE CONSUMER TO INTERPRET?
ISN'T A LITTLE UNFAIR FOR THE ARTIST TO SAY NO, YOU HAVE
TO LOVE THE BULL AND THINK OF THE BULL IN A POSITIVE
LIGHT THAT YOU ARE INSULTING THE BULL.
YOU'RE RIGHT THAT
IS WEIRD TO SAY NO, YOU HAVE TO INTERPRET THE ART THE
WAY I WANT YOU TO INTERPRET IT.
DOESN'T THAT GO AGAINST WHAT ART IS?
IT CHANGES THEIR TIME THAT IF YOU THINK ABOUT SOME OF THE ART
PIECES THAT WERE NOT APPRECIATED AT ONE TIME AND THEN LATER
BECAME THESE CLASSIC ICONIC PIECES OF ART, IT CHANGES.
THIS IS A NEW GENERATION.
US OUR NEW GENERATION OF WARRIORS AND JUSTICE WARRIORS
AND THE THINGS THAT WERE PERCEIVED IN THE PAST SOMETIMES
THAT WERE OKAY WITH THE STATUS QUO THAT WERE OPPRESSIVE,
YOU GUYS ARE NOT HAVING IT THAT WERE NOT HAVING IT.
IT'S NOT GOING TO HAVE THE SAME CONNOTATION AND EVEN IF YOU
REMOVE THAT GIRL, WHEN YOU SEE THAT BULL YOU DON'T THINK
ABOUT WHAT HE WAS THINKING ABOUT BECAUSE THIS IS A DIFFERENT
TIME.
YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
FOR ME, THE STORY IS NOT ABOUT WE HAVE TO FIGHT FOR GENDER
EQUALITY.
I BELIEVE IN FIGHTING FOR GENDER EQUALITY.
I LOVE WITH THE FEARLESS GIRL STATUE REPRESENTS BUT EVEN IF WE
TOOK HER OUT OF THE PICTURE AND WE'S FOCUSED SOLELY ON WHAT
THAT BULL MEANS AND HOW I INTERPRET IT, IT MIGHT'VE
MEANT SOMETHING POSITIVE BACK THEN BUT I LOOK AT IT NOW
AND WHEN IT'S CHARGING, I FEEL LIKE IT IS CHARGING AT THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST THE ARTIST AND I FEEL FOR HIM
BECAUSE NO ONE WAS THERE ARE TO BE LOOKED AT IN A NEGATIVE LIGHT
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE TIMES OF CHANGE THAT WE ARE DEALING
WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THEIR LIVES DESTROYED BECAUSE OF
ECONOMIC MELTDOWNS DUE TO SOME OF THE BAD BEHAVIOR AT WALL
STREET THAT HE HAS TO UNDERSTAND THAT PERSPECTIVE AS WELL.
IS A SCULPTURE GARDEN NOW.
IT'S LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE WHEN THE PEOPLE GO, WE GOT OUR
FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE, WE BOUGHT ONE ORNAMENT AND WE BOW IN
THE YEAR AFTER THAT BEFORE WE KNOW IT WE HAVE THIS
BEAUTIFUL STORY ABOUT LIVES.
THAT'S WHAT THIS IS.
THIS IS AMAZING.
IT'S REALLY GUITAR.
IT'S BETTER ARE WITH APPLE CHARGING AT THAT GIRL THAN IT
WOULD BE IF IT WAS JUST A GIRL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SQUARE.
IT WOULD STILL BE AWESOME ON ITS OWN BUT IT'S REALLY AWESOME
LIKE THIS.
MY QUESTION TO HIM IS HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT HOW PEOPLE TYPICALLY
INTERACT WITH YOUR BULL WHEN THEY GO VISIT WALL STREET?
BECAUSE THIS ONE REALLY SHINY PART OF YOUR SCULPTURE AND
IT'S THAT BULL TESTICLES WHERE EVERYONE HAS THAT CHEEKY
PHOTO WERE THEY JUST GO I'M REALLY DOING IT.
THE OTHER THING HE SAID IS, HE SAID HE GOT REALLY EMOTIONAL
WHEN HE THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND HE SAID HE WANTED TO GO TRY TO DO
SOMETHING TO END THE FACE-OFF BECAUSE IT MADE HIM FEEL
UNCOMFORTABLE THAT I THINK THAT'S A SIGN ABOUT THE
CONFIRMATION THAT HIS THING AND HE SAID HE WANTED TO GO DOWN AND
TURN THAT BULL AROUND HIMSELF WHICH WOULD BE EVEN WORSE
BECAUSE THEN THE BULL IS LIKE LOOK AT MY NUTS, LITTLE GIRL.
OR RUNNING FROM HER.
HE LOST.
WE HAVE TO FACE OUR INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS AND WE HAVE
TO FACE THE REALITIES THAT I THINK THESE TWO FACING EACH
OTHER IS REALLY POWERFUL.

"Charging Bull" Sculptor Offended By "Fearless Girl"

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