Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French
“Stop It, Genevieve! Enough With the Splashing, You Moron, or This Painting’s NEVER Going To Dry!,” 1884-87
Oil on canvas
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/// The Large Bathers, a work by Renoir,
has a title that comes off bizarre.
They are hardly grotesque,
(just a tad Rubenesque),
so this fat shaming goes much too far.
/// The two girls on the shore getting dried
should be bursting with full-figured pride.
Hurtful jeers like “Large Marge,
you’re as big as a barge!”
should be duly denounced and decried.
/// Skinny dipping? You have to be joking.
(Or, perhaps you’re just being provoking.)
We reveal when uncloaking,
healthy bodies evoking
a more accurate term, “curvy soaking.”
/// The papa of these five girls said, “You’re
being spied upon by a voyeur!”
“Yes, we know,” said his daughters.
“We’re not here for the waters.
We were hoping to get some amour.”
/// “Please stop splashing me!” shouted Babette
to Hélène, a young Sapphic coquette.
“I don’t like you that way,
and you’d better not say
to my boyfriend that you got me wet.