Sue Williams, an English artist has been given a $35,000 grant from the National Lottery to look at women’s backsides. Williams was has been handed the cash to – and we quote – “explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks”.
It gets better. In addition to merely observing the asses, Williams will be paid to “create plaster cast moulds of women’s behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture.”
Emma Geliot, a representative of the Arts Council of Wales, the organization that awarded the grant, said: “This produces a tee-hee response but there is a serious point.”
Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament Adrian Sanders, a member of the Culture Committee, questioned the wisdom of the grant and suggested that others would question it, too.
The editorial board at IHateTheMedia.com is outraged by this story. It’s just not right that someone else has figured out how to get paid to do something we’ve always been willing to do for free.
Source: The Sun UK