Canadian women’s group protests phallic shape of Irish immigrant monument in Vancouver

Oh, please. Someone please find something productive for these women to do with their time. The monument pictured is absolutely beautiful. Why would anyone want it changed? Perhaps these women need to get their minds out of the gutter...or are they all just frustrated old biddies? Either way...I hope their influence does not change one little bit of this beautiful monument.

Hey Ladies Stop your foolish ness the next thing you ladies will want is to cut off all church steeples because it reminds you of a Mans Penis ! Now foolish Ladies Repent and get a Real Life

Heartiest congratulations to Dara (male or female) who has us wasting our time commenting on such trite and arrant nonsense. One of my favourite books growing up was 'Women of 98'. It has suited these people to write out of history Hildegard, Catherine, Mary and many more who do not fit their agenda. Each and every generation has had its remarkable women. Their monument is the good work they have done. When all injustice has been wiped out, you can spend the rest of your time arguing about the shape or wording of a stone memorial.

Sounds like latent penis envy to me!

From an artistic point of view, the monument is poorly designed--everything but the kitchen sink has been thrown in--and maybe eiriamach is right and a urinal is there also.

I think some people just like to cause controversy I see nothing wrong with the monument. They might consider including more Irish women.

This is silly. These women need to get out more or get it more or both.

It's called a monolith. Very common form of civic display. It looks nothing like a willie except to those who cannot get willie off their minds. I've never seen a square willie before, anyway.

Some sick women in this world! Phallic? Give me a break please

Are they going to protest the Washington Monument.

Therefore if more female than male names appearared on the monument the ladies would be happy. eirieamach has let her imagination run wild lol.

Under the central "cross," what's that dark shape that looks like a urinal? Oh, maybe it's a harp-shaped urinal! Uhhh...

Sometimes a monument is just a monument.

Clip-on ties from Woolworth's, the kind they give little boys at Christmas time.

"Each column will be decorated with Irish traditional art." No, there's nothing at all "traditional" about these columns in the drawing above. They are distortions of Celtic crosses, more like broadswords, and the center column looks like a keyring I once had. They're cheap looking, almost cartoons, and embarrassing parodies of Celtic shapes, drawn the way someone with training in Japanese abstract symbols might design them. Ugh! Ugly! Now I wouldn't say that about a real phallic symbol, but boys, this design ain't art.