Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 5:51 p.m.

The girl has got some serious issues... way too liberal for me...

Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 6:05 p.m.

Heil Hitler

Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 6:45 p.m.

Even if she faked it I think she has some psychological issues. Seriously who even thinks up of something like this? Im kinda out there and weird and artsy, but I would never think of something like this, this is coming from a very controversial person myself. I think she needs to be evaluated and it is not cool to screw with people's minds like that. This whole thing makes me feel queesy. You should never call anything like that art, that is not what art is about. She could've gotten her so called "message" out in much better ways that would be effective, she didn't need to do what she did.

Posted by Cloey at 4/17/08 6:49 p.m.

It's a pathetic use of an education. The school should be sanctioned for allowing this to produced, fake or not. She most certainly has an art advisor overseeing her project. Another reason I'm glad my kid can't get into an overpriced, leftist, anti-American, intolerant Ivy League school.

Posted by Rainbowgrower at 4/17/08 7:04 p.m.

Whether we agree or not, find it disturbing or not, the fundamental aspect to this story is the artist's right to free speech and expression. If you find it offensive, then don't attend the exhibit, or read the articles. The arts have a long history of forcing society to look at it's own ugliness. I find the display disturbing, but the artist's message underlying message is important: it is her body, her life, her expression.

Posted by maggie2u at 4/17/08 7:25 p.m.

Rainbowgrower...I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. That you would think it's all right for her to have had several abortions and display them as art, or that she said she did and call that performance art? It is her body, her life, her expression, but when someone destroys an unborn child, that's their body, their life and I would say, especially after hearing the Dalai Lama in Seattle, it's certainly not very compassionate.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 9:14 p.m.

somewhere in heaven, Guy Debord is smiling!

Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 9:32 p.m.

I don't guess she is any flavor of Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist. Gee, I wonder what religious background would place such emphasis on selfish expression at the expense of innocent life? Not even that art lover, Hermann Göring, could dream this masterpiece.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 9:57 p.m.

What she'd going isn't art. It's sick and it's murder. This is absolutely terrible.

Posted by Lane at 4/17/08 10:06 p.m.

ART.CAN'T.HURT.YOU.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 10:48 p.m.

I've used both human and animal blood, not to mention menstrual blood in artwork before. I don't see the issue here. If you can hunt down a living animal simply to mount on your wall and call it art, why not this?

Posted by AvalancheChief at 4/17/08 11:08 p.m.

Yale, Yale, Yale, didn'g GWB graduate from Yale?

Seems much hasn't changed in the edumacation there - if the Skull & Bones is for our future leaders, and it comes out of Yale, God help us...

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 12:54 a.m.

AvalancheChief, didn't John Kerry and Hilliary Clinton also graduate from Yale? Oh, but only John Kerry was part of Skull & Bones. Maybe less LIBERAL bias is warranted.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 4:54 a.m.

this woman is not "liberal". she's insane.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 6:36 a.m.

The difference is animals are animals and people are people. By your reasoning, it's OK for someone to hunt people and kill them. I'm sure you'd see the issue quite clearly if you were one of the hunted.


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Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 10:48 p.m.

I've used both human and animal blood, not to mention menstrual blood in artwork before. I don't see the issue here. If you can hunt down a living animal simply to mount on your wall and call it art, why not this?

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 6:44 a.m.

i THINK IT IS DISGUSTING AND SHE PROBABLY THINKS SHE IS A WITCH OF SOME SORT..IT IS A DISGRACE TO HERSELF AND YALE. I WILL NOT BE SENDING MY CHILDREN TO YALE.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 7:01 a.m.

now (friday) she is saying that it was real. http://www.yaledailynews.com/

Posted by gee3 at 4/18/08 7:45 a.m.

Artists freedom of expression my hindquarter.
First it was orgasms, now abortions.
What's next, faked relationships?
Fairly typical of immature "adult" college students isn't it?

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 8:01 a.m.

I personally think the woman is insane and that Yale should be sanctioned for even condoing anything of this nature. I would certainly hate to be her standing before God Almighty explaining to Him what she did with her body and the body of any unborn child.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 8:07 a.m.

who f--king cares. it's fake. so obviously this was done to draw attention to her project. get over it.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 8:09 a.m.

and even if it's not fake. it's not your place to judge. your not god. let him deal with it. your opinion doesn't matter, so get over yourself and worry about your own life.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 9:28 a.m.

I do not see how using menstrual blood in art can be likened to repeatedly insemenating yourself just to later produce a miscarriage. Menstruation is a natural process in the female body, whereas miscarriages only occur when something is wrong. To induce your own miscarriage is not liberal or liberated and it is certainly not art. Art can be beautiful or hideous, but it does not kill.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 9:36 a.m.

It's really sickening. It gives those of us who believe in being able to provide safe, legal abortions a bad name. This woman is abusing her rights that generations have worked so hard to protect. Don't you think this will become fodder for all of the anti-abortion nutsos? Even if it's a joke, it's a sick, sick joke.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 10:24 a.m.

Libaralism is a mental disorder.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 10:42 a.m.

Sad way for her to get attention . Yale must be proud of her!??? Shame on her.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 10:46 a.m.

I'm an artist- degreed and all. This isn't art- maybe Duchamp would think so, but it isn't. It's sensationalism and a grasp for her ten minutes.

At best it's sophomoric.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 11:17 a.m.

Everyone is missing the point of the piece; it's about the body, and personal choice and morals. It doesn't matter that the subject is disturbing, or whether the artist has psychological issues or not. She presenting something to the world that shows that she makes the choices, she's in charge, and is giving us all the same advice. If you don't like it, don't look at it.

Posted by 4623yt at 4/18/08 1:27 p.m.

...if only her mother had had an abortion way back when...

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 1:50 p.m.

I personally think what she did was wrong. I do, however, think the greater picture here is being missed. For the record, I'm a liberal, I do believe in some form of creator, but I also believe in evolution - I don't think either concept is entirely exclusive.

As humans, we have a wide variety of choices available to us. We can choose to be serial killers, to follow the established laws of our society, or any path in between. It is what we choose that defines us as an individual, and for those who believe in some form of divine judgement, determines what 'reward' we will finally receive.

It would seem that our lives are an opportunity for us to define ourselves and our own morality - and to the level that we respect or disrespect others. This woman seems to disrespect both herself and the sensabilities of many others, and that doesn't seem to bother her.

Many of these actions come about as a result of intellectual immaturity, or from a history of abuse or low self-esteem.

No answers here, just insights. Our responses to her behaviour are indications of where we are in the continuum stated above.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/18/08 3:40 p.m.

--"She presenting something to the world that shows that she makes the choices, she's in charge, and is giving us all the same advice."

So in order to feel in charge of her own life, her own body, she feels the need to REPEATEDLY create a new human life, and repeatedly end that life?! And then to present this evil as "art"?!

Even the idea of doing this is wrong on every level. This isnt about control of her own body, its her need to feel absolute control over another's life.

This sorry excuse for a human is not a liberal. She is simply sick.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/22/08 11:21 a.m.

Hey, I'm more or less as liberal as the day is long. But this still makes me feel queasy, to say the least. The girl sounds straight up crazy--I'm all for artistic expression and even challenging art, but this is just weird, not to mention ethically questionable...

Posted by unregistered user at 4/25/08 10:24 a.m.

Dear witch hunter.. this person is clearly not a witch, nor practitioner of the craft.. our motto is "an ye harm NONE" nice way to get your roseries in a bind trying to create a witch hunt here.. this person is a fool.. I would gander she is even a lesbian.

Posted by Rainbowgrower at 4/25/08 5:33 p.m.

maggie2u

What I am saying is that the artist has the right to post the expression, even if we don't agree with it. It is her right to chose within her own life whether or not to carry a child to term.