Snowmen-Politically Incorrect

A quote from a University of Birmingham (UK) art historian Tricia Cusack:

The snowman is, of course, white and invariably male... [His] ritual location in the semi-public space of garden or field imaginatively reinforces a spatial social system, marking women's proper sphere as the domestic-private and men's as the commercial-public... It presents an image, however jocular, of a masculine control of public space... Like Father Christmas, he is round, fat and smiling, suggesting overindulgence. The classic carnival figure is a fat, lusty eater and drinker.

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