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The crosses were made from the most sparkly bad taste polyester silk and awarded in the “Eva Brownies Present: Behind the Mascara” exhibition in Cable Factory, Helsinki 2006
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The B-grade Lover’s Honor Cross is awarded to Benito Mussolini, because he put his mistress at a mental hospital so that she would shut up. Also his son Mussolini was put in an asylum for safety’s sake. As a practical thinker Mussolini acted as philosophy had already thought before: woman is possible only as muted and the body is most beautiful as dead.
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The B-grade Lover’s Honor Cross is awarded to Immanuel Kant, because with the help of his advocacy the apathetic lover has survived in evolution until the present day. Kant saw that the man is conducted by reason, while the woman by inclination. Kant thought that a passionate person is mentally ill and lacks the sovereignty of reason. Passion means for Kant being put in chains, but fortunately no woman tried to apply such rough tactics to this philosopher.
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The B-grade Lover’s Honor Cross is awarded to Sigmund Freud. He noticed that because of “the woman’s own silence and insincerity, research does not know the sexual life of woman”. From the conventionalism and closemindedness an unanimous desicion was made, without asking or hearing anybody concerned.
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The B-grade Lover’s Honor Cross is awarded to Leo Tolstoy, because he saw sensuality as the lowest of all. “Obscenity constitutes not only the chief subject of all novels, but the only one.” Tolstoy did not remember that this same baseness, which he called “disgusting things” can be found in the background of every family.
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The B-grade Lover’s Honor Cross is awarded to G.W.F. Hegel for spiritual support for bad lovers. Sensual love cannot be art, because non-theoretical, immediate senses cannot belong to the sphere of art. Quite miserable is a lover who looks from behind and does not even touch. Only for a lousy lover touching represents a lower sense and absence of spirit.
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