This is one of the disturbing Painting I have seen . It's called "Market in Piazza del Municipio". It's about the punishment of several ladies in public because they sold rotten eggs from their market stall . The punishment is to be pelted with a basket full of the same eggs by a group of men. This actually happened in 1790 and it shows a form of cruelty and an uncaring society as they relish the spectacle watch on by smiling groups of men and women. What do you think?
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Go and say on twitter (or I guess here) that men can't be women (no matter what hormones, surgery, or clothes are involved), or vice versa, and watch exactly the same thing happen.
But these women could go back to selling eggs after a few days. JK Rowling (who didn't even say what I just said in the above paragraph), is getting death threats.
My thought is we do exactly the same thing today. Actually we're probably worse because we throw virtual eggs for thought-crimes.
