John Waters is big on fathers rights, often passionately pounding the table he is seated behind as he argues the importance of a child having a male role model. Yet when it comes to a child having two fathers, he starts spitting homophobic venom about how that's immoral and biologically unsound. A very odd character. He recently took part in a "Paint me, I'm Fucking Naked" program for RTE. He said every "gobshite" was going to have a field-day with it. This Gammagobshite wasn't going to bother with it, I did a bit of Tweeting at the time of the show, that was good enough for me. I have no agenda set against this man, if he has the balls to show his mickey in a homoerotic painting, more power to him! But then, when I went back and watched the start of the show, which I missed first time around, I spotted one of my pictures on his Mac Book, amidst a Google Image search he did, and then he started talking about "gobshites writing shite" on the internet. Well sure, he only went and made it personal then!
I also wanted to do a post on the Catholic hullabaloo regarding the "bikini-clad" Virgin Mary on display in University College Cork. I decided to merge the two themes into one. It's all art you know! I've often thought of Waters as a kind of Jesus character anyway, so here he is naked, with his mother gettting ready to do some swimming at the beach. Let's all rejoice in the beauty of one of god's great creations: the skin organ.
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