#metoo
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It's amazing how quickly this symbol has evolved. It's like every generation has a different meaning. I've met people who have no idea it's the number symbol, and I only vaguely recognize it as 'pound'.
My son informed me it is actually called a "octothorpe"
%^$ing know-it-all.
Octo? What does it have 8 of? Not lines, not boxes...
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If you consider the central parallelogram separately, it has 8 linear protrusions.
LOL.
That sounds awfully convoluted for a simple concept.
You mean it has 4 lines and each line has 2 ends so 8 points around?
I guess it's necessary to have this symbol that has no necessary function but can be reused to suit the times.
As always, the unintended consequences will cause a lot of crap.
#MediocrityToo
https://www.city-journal.org/html/mediocritytoo-15705.html
#MediocrityToo
https://www.city-journal.org/html/mediocritytoo-15705.html
Toronto's 'Pussy Hut' pays tribute to women’s movement symbol with massive tuque
Canadian Press
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Published:
February 21, 2018
Updated:
February 21, 2018 12:28 PM EST
A pink toque inspired"'Pussy Hut" is pictured on Toronto's beach Wednesday February 21, 2018. A massive pink toque has taken over a stretch of a Toronto beach a year after thousands of protesters donned bright pink hats to protest gender inequality.Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — A massive pink tuque has taken over a stretch of a Toronto beach a year after thousands of protesters donned bright pink hats to protest gender inequality.
Dubbed the “Pussy Hut,” the warm-and-fuzzy attraction is inspired by the colourful symbol of women’s marches that emerged after last year’s inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The art piece is part of an annual competition called Winter Stations staged along Lake Ontario in the city’s east-end.
Organizers say this year’s theme is “Riot” and that they chose to include the “Pussy Hut” for its message of hope.
“These are changing times and ‘riot’ is an expressive way of demonstrating that there’s change in the air,” says one of the competition’s directors, Ted Merrick of the Toronto architectural firm Ferris + Associates.
A pink toque inspired Pussy Hut is pictured on Toronto’s beach Wednesday February 21, 2018. A massive pink toque has taken over a stretch of a Toronto beach a year after thousands of protesters donned bright pink hats to protest gender inequality. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
“It can also be a riot of colour, it can be kind, it can respond to political climates around the world, it can respond to just the change in the world these days, so we thought it an appropriate theme.”
The “Pussy Hut” is large enough to allow several people under its roof, and includes earflaps that slope onto a wooden bench where visitors can sit.
It’s covered with bright pink fabric tubes stuffed with polyester fibre fill to create the 12-centimetre-wide “yarn.” That was then positioned over a structure built of milled plywood.
Designers Martin Miller and Mo Zheng, based in New York and China, hope visitors will be drawn to the large-scale art piece to share stories and discuss a raft of political and societal movements underway.
Women with bright pink hats and signs begin to gather early and are set to make their voices heard on the first full day of Donald Trump’s presidency, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Zheng says she was delighted to see several people unable to resist touching the “yarn” when the piece debuted over the weekend.
“Actually, a lot of kids were climbing on that and they really, really enjoy it,” says Zheng, who notes that some observers simply see a familiar winter symbol, without political overtones.
“The texture is just very different — it’s not your conventional kind of outdoor art installation. The material is (such) that people want to touch it and start sitting on it.”
The hut rises a little over four metres tall and involves about 1,200 metres of “yarn.”
Inside, there are shelves where people can share their own feelings about gender inequity and sexual harassment.
“People are welcome to leave messages and notes about their particular experiences, their experience with the women’s movement, the women’s march and leave little relics and artifacts,” says Miller.
Other chosen installations include megaphones in a “noisebox” from Germany and spinning pinwheels to celebrate clean and safe energy from the Netherlands.
The exhibit runs until April 1.
Toronto’s ‘Pussy Hut’ pays tribute to women
Canadian Press
More from Canadian Press
Published:
February 21, 2018
Updated:
February 21, 2018 12:28 PM EST
A pink toque inspired"'Pussy Hut" is pictured on Toronto's beach Wednesday February 21, 2018. A massive pink toque has taken over a stretch of a Toronto beach a year after thousands of protesters donned bright pink hats to protest gender inequality.Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — A massive pink tuque has taken over a stretch of a Toronto beach a year after thousands of protesters donned bright pink hats to protest gender inequality.
Dubbed the “Pussy Hut,” the warm-and-fuzzy attraction is inspired by the colourful symbol of women’s marches that emerged after last year’s inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The art piece is part of an annual competition called Winter Stations staged along Lake Ontario in the city’s east-end.
Organizers say this year’s theme is “Riot” and that they chose to include the “Pussy Hut” for its message of hope.
“These are changing times and ‘riot’ is an expressive way of demonstrating that there’s change in the air,” says one of the competition’s directors, Ted Merrick of the Toronto architectural firm Ferris + Associates.
A pink toque inspired Pussy Hut is pictured on Toronto’s beach Wednesday February 21, 2018. A massive pink toque has taken over a stretch of a Toronto beach a year after thousands of protesters donned bright pink hats to protest gender inequality. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
“It can also be a riot of colour, it can be kind, it can respond to political climates around the world, it can respond to just the change in the world these days, so we thought it an appropriate theme.”
The “Pussy Hut” is large enough to allow several people under its roof, and includes earflaps that slope onto a wooden bench where visitors can sit.
It’s covered with bright pink fabric tubes stuffed with polyester fibre fill to create the 12-centimetre-wide “yarn.” That was then positioned over a structure built of milled plywood.
Designers Martin Miller and Mo Zheng, based in New York and China, hope visitors will be drawn to the large-scale art piece to share stories and discuss a raft of political and societal movements underway.
Women with bright pink hats and signs begin to gather early and are set to make their voices heard on the first full day of Donald Trump’s presidency, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Zheng says she was delighted to see several people unable to resist touching the “yarn” when the piece debuted over the weekend.
“Actually, a lot of kids were climbing on that and they really, really enjoy it,” says Zheng, who notes that some observers simply see a familiar winter symbol, without political overtones.
“The texture is just very different — it’s not your conventional kind of outdoor art installation. The material is (such) that people want to touch it and start sitting on it.”
The hut rises a little over four metres tall and involves about 1,200 metres of “yarn.”
Inside, there are shelves where people can share their own feelings about gender inequity and sexual harassment.
“People are welcome to leave messages and notes about their particular experiences, their experience with the women’s movement, the women’s march and leave little relics and artifacts,” says Miller.
Other chosen installations include megaphones in a “noisebox” from Germany and spinning pinwheels to celebrate clean and safe energy from the Netherlands.
The exhibit runs until April 1.
Toronto’s ‘Pussy Hut’ pays tribute to women