Botticelli

Diversion of Rights

07 Sep 2013

In Botticelli’s 14th century painting, “The Birth of Venus”,  the Goddess is emerging from the sea with the winds blowing her to shore.  But this isn’t the fresh female's fate today.  There are blowhards in suits now blustering her rights away.  Are the pontificating politicians so afraid of the liberated female they must claim control of her body?