Police in Florida want to know who spray-painted “#MeToo” on the leg of a statue depicting a sailor and a dental assistant kissing at the end of World War II. Sarasota police said in a news release that officers found the phrase painted in red on the left leg of the woman in the “Unconditional Surrender” statue in Sarasota early Tuesday. The paint covered the length of the nurse’s leg.
Police said officers didn’t find any spray paint bottles in the area. No other objects were defaced. Authorities estimate the damage to the statue at more than $1,000. They say the incident occurred sometime Monday afternoon or evening.
The Me Too movement (or #MeToo movement), with a large variety of local and international alternative names - some call it the Fat Cow movement after some of the obese women who parade signs around. It is nominally a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault. The movement began to spread virally in October 2017 as a hashtag on social media in an attempt to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace. This movement is especially vocal against conservative men who are alleged to have committed sexual assault but when it comes to liberal political figures, such as the Deputy Governor of Virginia, Justin Fairfax, who is accused by two women of rape, the #metoo movement is strangely silent. Make no mistake about it, any man who abuses a woman, in any manner, should face the full penalty of law or be drug behind speed boat in shark infested waters,...whichever is deemed more harsh.
George Medonsa, the sailor who kissed dental assistant Greta Zimmer Friedman, died Sunday at 95. He was preceded in death by Greta Zimmer Friedman, who was the lady in the original photograph, who passed away on 8 September 2016. Medonsa served as a quartermaster on the USS The Sullivans (DD-537), a destroyer in the Pacific. He was steering the ship in 1945 when an aircraft carrier in the area was struck by Japanese kamikaze fighters. He is credited with helping more than 100 American sailors floating in the water reach a hospital ship. There he saw nurses caring for the wounded and alwasy had a soft spot for nurses thereafter.
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