One day last summer, a couple visiting the nations capital,
happened to go into the National Gallery to view some of the artwork for which
the Gallery was famous. They finally came to a stop in front of a large
muralistic painting that really confused them, and they developed quite an
argument over what the painting meant. The painting was of three totally naked
black men with their penises hanging down below the park bench on which they
were seated. They looked identical except that the figure in the middle had a
stark pinkly white penis while the other two had black.
The Art Curator overhearing their disagreement approached them and told them he could help them with an interpretation that would settle their argument. He then droned on for a full half hour about a representation of the sexual emasculation of the Afro-American male in a patriarchal white dominated society, then forcefully finished with his opinion that it was really a statement about the culture of repression of gay men.
The Curator left the couple just as confused as they had been before his explanation. An old Scotsman within hearing distance approached and asked:
“Would you really like to know what this picture is all about? If you do I can tell you that it has absolutely nothing to do with any Afro-Queers who are being emasculated and repressed.”
“And how would you know so much, when the Curator didn’t?” asked the woman.
“Because I painted it!” said the old Scot
“What is it then?” asked the man.
“It’s just three Scottish Coal Miners on break. The one in the middle went home for lunch!”
The Art Curator overhearing their disagreement approached them and told them he could help them with an interpretation that would settle their argument. He then droned on for a full half hour about a representation of the sexual emasculation of the Afro-American male in a patriarchal white dominated society, then forcefully finished with his opinion that it was really a statement about the culture of repression of gay men.
The Curator left the couple just as confused as they had been before his explanation. An old Scotsman within hearing distance approached and asked:
“Would you really like to know what this picture is all about? If you do I can tell you that it has absolutely nothing to do with any Afro-Queers who are being emasculated and repressed.”
“And how would you know so much, when the Curator didn’t?” asked the woman.
“Because I painted it!” said the old Scot
“What is it then?” asked the man.
“It’s just three Scottish Coal Miners on break. The one in the middle went home for lunch!”
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