In Denmark there has been a lively debate about the fate of a mermaid statue to be removed from public views, and not, of course, is not the popular “little mermaid” of Copenhagen.

The statue caused a fool, and was criticized as “vulgar and pornographic” and “The hot dream of a man about what a woman should look like.”

Thus, the Danish Palace and Culture Service allegedly removed the Den Store Havfrue (the Great Mermaid) of 4×6 meters from the Dragor Fortress, part of the former marine fortifications of Copenhagen because it does not align its 1910.

Politiken’s art critic Mathias Kryger described the statue as “vulgar and pornographic,” the Guardian said. Sorine Gotfredsen, a priest and journalist, wrote in the Berlingske newspaper: “The construction of a statue representing a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like is unlikely to help many women accept their body.”

Added: “It is really encouraging that many find the statue of vulgar, ” antiseptic ” and unwanted because We are suffocating with the perfect bodies in public. “

However, the man behind the 14 -ton sculpture, Peter Bech, said he did not understand criticism, saying that the breasts of the stone figure is simply “proportional” to its scale.

Others believe that criticism reflects the attitude of society towards the female body in general – and not in a good way. For Aminata Corr Thrane, author of the Berlingske site, thorough control of the mermaid breast It is equivalent to body shaming.

‘Must bare female breasts have one specific academic form and size To allow them to appear publicly? ” wrote.

Noting that the great mermaid was “maybe a little less naked” than its famous petty brunt and granite, the little mermaid, Corr Thrane added: “On the other hand, it has a larger breast, and there is probably the problem.”

He added: “Maybe the two statues – the big and the small mermaid – represent the two sides of the woman and the eternal tug -of -war for what a real woman is. And maybe even what a wrong woman is. “

In 2006, the Great Mermaid was erected at the Langelinie pier in Copenhagen, near the little mermaid. But it was removed in 2018, after the locals renounced it as “the false and vulgar mermaid”.

She was then transferred to the Dragor Fortress, until the Danish Palace and Culture intervened in March, demanding her removal. Since then, the Municipality of Dragor has allegedly rejected Bech’s offer to donate the statue.

Helle Barth, chairman of the Municipality of Dragør climate, urban and business issues, told Berlingske that although it was a good offer, “It’s just difficult to fit. It takes up a lot of space. “

Bech, who said he made the statue in response to tourists’ comments that the little mermaid – inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale – was very small in size, said Dragor’s residents often tell him that they were worshiped. He hopes to find a way to keep it in the city.