A pervy Wall Street brah was just photographed humping the new statue of a little girl, meant to signify women’s empowerment in the financial sector. He isn’t the first, and he won’t be the last — despite repeated calls for disrespectful sexual assaults on female statues to be classified as a sex crime.
The troubling scene was captured Thursday night by Alexis Kaloyanides, a 34-year-old architectural designer from Queens, who was visiting the piece of public art called Fearless Girl — directly across the way from the iconic Charging Bull statue in Lower Manhattan.
“Almost as if out of central casting, some Wall Street finance broseph appeared and started humping the statue while his gross date rape-y friends laughed and cheered him on,” commented Kaloyanides while uploading the picture to Facebook. “He pretended to have sex with the image of a little girl. Douchebags like this are why we need feminism.”
“It was a beautiful night … there were about 15 or 20 people there,” Kaloyanides told “Inside Edition.”
“We started talking about the statue, a little girl about 5- or 6-years-old proudly posed with the statue for a picture, it was just a nice moment.” Then the scene got ugly, “lewd and totally inappropriate,” the witness said.
“These three young men came along, and at first they were hanging off the bull,” Kaloyanides said, “and then this one guy rushed up and started grinding against the statue of the girl, being lewd and totally inappropriate.”
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Onlookers were horrified by the shocking move and yelled at the perv. He laughed it off and walked away with his pals.
“He was gone within 20 seconds, but it just ruined the mood of the scene,” Kaloyanides said. “There were people there talking about empowering children and women and for them to have this 20-something showing his entitlement, defiling the statute.”
She added: “It was utterly revolting.”
Sexual assaults on Fearless Girl, which was commissioned by State Street Global Advisors to promote female empowerment (as well as their index fund SHE), takes on extra poignancy in the context of our fight for human rights for all. It’s not about an inert piece of bronze, but what she represents. An attack on the statue is an attack on the dignity of all fearless little girls — women — around the globe.
