Virginia's Indecent State Seal

[3113]

From here.

Virginia's attorney general Ken Cuccinelli is hard at work on the important issues of the day -- like making sure the Roman goddess depicted on his state's official seal isn't exposing herself. The current seal shows "Virtus, the goddess of virtue, dressed as a warrior," with her foot resting "on the chest of the figure of tyranny, who is lying on the ground." She is holding a spear and her left breast is exposed.

Or at least it was exposed. At a recent meeting, Cuccinelli provided pins to his staff with a new seal on which "Virtus' bosom is covered by an armored breastplate," the Virginian-Pilot reported. These new pins were not paid for by taxpayer dollars, Cuccinelli's office insisted. The original state seal was designed by George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and was first adopted in 1776, according to a Virginia state website. But so much for that....

I think the original was just a wardrobe malfunction myself. I wonder if anyone has noted the more BDSM feel of the armored one....

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[glynndah]

It looks like she's wearing a t-shirt. Ick.

 

[The_Fool]

It looks like she's wearing a t-shirt. Ick.

Throw some icewater on her. Make it a wet teeshirt.

 

[TE999]

How utterly stupid. Shouldn't Ken be prosecuting criminals instead of worrying about a bare breasted goddess on his state seal? What a prude.

 

[TxRad]

How utterly stupid. Shouldn't Ken be prosecuting criminals instead of worrying about a bare breasted goddess on his state seal? What a prude.

It's hard to prosecute an indecent exposure case when there's a lady over your head with a boob hanging out.

 

[glynndah]

Throw some icewater on her. Make it a wet teeshirt.

She'd still have to take off the wife beater she's wearing on top of it.

 

[jomar]

So nobody told him that


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[Zeb_Carter]

Actually both seals have a BSDM look to them, the first is obviously a female dom and a male sub where the second one is a male dom with a female sub.

ETA: Wait you mean the figure on the second one is a female in armor? Well then a dom in armor how quaint.

 

[TE999]

It's hard to prosecute an indecent exposure case when there's a lady over your head with a boob hanging out.

Heh! Virginny should make public nudity legal then...what's good for the goddess is good for everybody.

 

[Weird Harold]

From here.

I think the original was just a wardrobe malfunction myself. I wonder if anyone has noted the more BDSM feel of the armored one....

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/05/05/alg_coins.jpg

I wonder if there is any signifigance to the fact that Tyranny is obvious down for the count in the official seal and is apparently uninjured/getting up in the more modest proposal.

 

[3113]

I wonder if there is any signifigance to the fact that Tyranny is obvious down for the count in the official seal and is apparently uninjured/getting up in the more modest proposal.

You're quite right that tyranny is out for the count in the first one. Which is why it seems less BDSM to me. In the second it looks like tyranny tried to get up and got smashed down again. She's glaring down at him as he struggles and gazes back up at her in terror.

My thought is that ever since the A.G. saw that seal he's fantasized about being tyranny stepped on by "Virtue." But in his fantasy she's wearing armor and digging her heel into his ass. He used the excuse of the indecent boob to transform the seal into his fantasy

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

So, now not even classical nudity is acceptable? Just how prudish are these Nimrods, anyway? Mind you, I used to live in Harris County, which had a mandatory cap on the number of sex toys one could purchase.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I wonder if there is any signifigance to the fact that Tyranny is obvious down for the count in the official seal and is apparently uninjured/getting up in the more modest proposal.

That's because he objected to the destruction of tyranny.....says something about his political goals, if you ask me, especially in light of his enforced clothing of a Roman goddess (the height of hubris from a Greco-Roman POV, by the way). But, of course, he doesn't actually believe in my Gods, so he's not afraid of them. As a Hellenistic pagan, I officially protest this defacing of a representation of one of my Pantheon. There are too few pagan images on government buildings as it is....and he has to deface one of the few that does exist?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I wonder if there is any signifigance to the fact that Tyranny is obvious down for the count in the official seal and is apparently uninjured/getting up in the more modest proposal.

He's not getting up. He's looking under her skirt.

Now wait a minute-- Are you all going to tell me you don't remember John Ashcroft's covering the naked breasts of the symbol of Justice in the Dept. of Justice's lobby when he was AG? Spent $8,000 to drape her in blue fabric.

All too true...

 

[3113]

Now wait a minute-- Are you all going to tell me you don't remember John Ashcroft's covering the naked breasts of the symbol of Justice in the Dept. of Justice's lobby when he was AG? Spent $8,000 to drape her in blue fabric.

But those were 3-D boobs. One could understand that. I mean, people might touch 'em and all (I'm sure that's what got Ashcroft so upset about them, the thought of anyone but him fondling them). This is just a 2-D boob.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Wasn't Eve nekked until she discovered SIN. Clearly the AG is the serpent tempting Virtue with his firm fruit.

Tyranny wins - so what's new?

 

[oggbashan]

County of Kent, UK

The flag and emblem of Kent displays a rampant stallion. Flag

Or at least it did. In the 1980s the stallion was emasculated to be neuter. His prominent sexual organ was airbrushed away.

Og

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The flag and emblem of Kent displays a rampant stallion. Flag

Or at least it did. In the 1980s the stallion was emasculated to be neuter. His prominent sexual organ was airbrushed away.

Og

Victorians still rule? Perish the thought . . . all except for Vickie herself, the little hottie!

 

[mynameisben]

There's an exposed boob, all right. It's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

He's not getting up. He's looking under her skirt.

Now wait a minute-- Are you all going to tell me you don't remember John Ashcroft's covering the naked breasts of the symbol of Justice in the Dept. of Justice's lobby when he was AG? Spent $8,000 to drape her in blue fabric.

All too true...

Score another for insults to my Pantheon.

 

[3113]

Maybe it's just because Virtue's breast isn't perky enough? Is it "virtuous" to have a perky breast?