oh i’m sorry were you saying something about me being an “artifact of the modern patriarchal medical-industrial complex” cause I was too busy looking at this photo of a 2000 year old classical greek marble statue of three transgender women just sorta chilling and being gorgeous.
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Unfortunately, this image has been photoshopped. The original does not feature any genitalia on the figures at all, and is actually from the 19th century.
Representations of sex and gender in antiquity are really interesting, but this isn’t in any way an example from the period. If anyone has any good examples to offer up, I’d love to see them. It’s been awhile since I studied Greco-Roman art. I’m sure some much better samples could be seen in 2-dimensional contexts.
Though this is a photo montage, there were Greek & Roman sculptures in this style of women with penises and/or hermaphrodites – so arguably it’s not entirely dishonest, in that OP was not creating a vision that did not exist previously. If an artist sculpted a marble hermaphrodite in this style, and called it an homage, no one would blink.
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