WELL. That took absolutely no time at all.
Yesterday, a 10-metre high mural of Kim Kardashian‘s now iconic nude selfie cropped up in Melbourne, and we all lost our fucking minds.
It was painted by all-round rad dude + social media activist Mark Walls a.k.a. Lushsux, who told PEDESTRIAN.TV yesterday:
“I instantly had the need to paint it when I saw it on her Instagram, in public, on a three story high building. Maybe I’m as much of an attention seeker as she is?”
The story went bonkers and was picked up by a bunch of media outlets yesterday, including yours truly.
This is where we’ve ended up. Here:
Victor from Colour Squad – the Cremorne-located printing business that lent the side of their building to Wall’s work – told P.TV he’s “disappointed” with what happened.
Wall himself told us it was, unfortunately, inevitable. “[I’m] pretty bummed, but it was a given considering the subject matter,” he said.
Maybe it’s out fault. We shouldn’t be surprised. Kimmy K’s original selfie kick-started a seemingly never-ending cycle of slut-shaming, body-shaming, and hand-ringing that Kim was putting feminism back a bajillion or so years to a mythical time when women enjoyed supposedly ‘equal’ rights, but were not allowed to express their own sexuality. When was that again?
