A St. Patrick’s Day mural featuring a busty female saying “You’re the man” to a leprechaun on a Brooklyn dry cleaners shop window has some locals slamming the imagery as demeaning and offensive.
PIX 11 News reports on the St. Patrick’s Day scenery, which eventually was washed away after the building’s management heard the complaints.
The paintings on the window at 200 Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn included lots of shamrocks and ‘Happy St. Patrick’s Day!’ to apparently help the neighborhood get in the holiday spirit.
However, a busty looking female saying the words “You’re the man” to what appears to have been a leprechaun left some Brooklyn residents feeling anything but spirited.
One Brooklyn resident, Regina Pajak, said the window art “portrayed (women) in a very sexist and demeaning way.”
When the dry cleaner shop’s owners weren’t readily available for comment, Pix 11 contacted the building’s management who initially hadn’t heard of any issues, but upon seeing the artwork agreed that it needed to be removed.
The window’s art was removed quickly, and the building’s management later said that the shop owners were not intending on being offensive at all and that it was an innocent gesture.
Check out News Pix 11 video of the story here:
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Will Hamilton | Mar 13, 2013, 06:03 AM EDT
Catholic sexual paranoia in action. A woman's breasts are offensive but it's OK to celebrate a pathological liar who brought a foreign child raping religion to people who didn't need it.
celticguy22 | Mar 12, 2013, 03:05 PM EDT
I'm pissed off!
WoundedKnee | Mar 02, 2013, 12:04 PM EST
I note they didn't try an anti-Israel mural in Brooklyn!
nosoupforU | Feb 28, 2013, 06:13 PM EST
What this country needs is a good depression to give these PC simpletons something to think about. Like where's their next meal coming from.
pmaloney | Feb 28, 2013, 05:57 PM EST
It is ridiculous that this is deemed offensive, but all the other "trappings" of St. Patrixck's day are nopt. How about the offensive beer drinking on the cards? What about the idiotic four leaf clovers - not shamrocks - on those windows. Why get incensed about a caricature of a woman?
Smyrnian | Feb 28, 2013, 04:38 PM EST
How about the Brooklyn museum's gross disrespect of the Catholic religion with their disgusting 'art'? That was ok, though.
falconflash | Feb 28, 2013, 11:46 AM EST
"You da man" would have been more offensive.....
slainte9 | Feb 28, 2013, 09:08 AM EST
Shortage of news and things to do in Brooklyn. Did any of these people complain about the demeaning portrayal of the Irish in Hollywood's widely distributed "Gangs of New York."