The Metanerd

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What Hath Taxidermy Wrought of the Day: Mad taxidermist Enrique Gomez De Molina of Miami is facing up to five years behind bars and up to a quarter million in fines for importing body parts of rare and exotic animals to create a series of creepy hybrid sculptures.

The Magic City’s very own Dr. Franken-Testa apparently never bothered to obtain permits to import the skins and cadavers of the animals he used in his “creations,” instead opting to have accomplices smuggle cobras, hornbills, pangolins, and other endangered species by wrapping them in carbon paper.

Two of his sculptures recently sold at a local art fair for $100,000.

De Molina claims he is was just trying to raise awareness of the dangers associated with genetic engineering, but pleaded guilty to the charges just the same.

His sentencing will take place on March 2.

See more of De Molina’s monstrosities here.

[upi / odditycentral.]

I’ve been trying for days to respond to this, or at least articulate my reaction to seeing this. It shouldn’t be difficult to be a feminist, a minority and a Christian at the same time. The times when I feel that being who I am and what I stand for is difficult is when I come across trash like this.

A woman’s supposed role as homemaker and husband pleaser is not the appropriation of a Christian woman. You cannot take Scripture out of context to bend it to push a social (and now political) point of view as the natural social order. There are two lines I find most problematic: “You will be largely dependent on him to make the family income” and “In many ways, you will be as a servant…” These I cannot rationalize in any way. I know many woman who claim that they hate feminism or that they are not feminists. I can explore how that problem in a completely separate post. But you cannot tell me that if these same women saw this, they would not be outraged. No one agrees with having their potential compromised and these women can’t honestly tell me that they are happy being described as dependent and a servant.

I’m also frustrated by the lack of context for the picture in general. I would like to see what is written above to men. I have good faith that it preaches devotion to God and considerate treatment to wives. There is a subtle implication that there are good and bad people of the world- that some men treat their wives with care and love. Some men are selfish pigs who will mistreat their wives (and probably everyone else around him). But good and bad people should not be isolated as a Christian concept and too often we connect the two even when it is not necessary.

This isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. I just need to stop while I’m ahead.

(via femonster)