National Trust Faces Backlash Again ….

[naomi24]

…for covering up male busts and paintings at an exhibition to celebrate women.

This follows a number of politically correct fiascos from this organisation. Sad that such a worthwhile undertaking can’t simply focus on its purpose. Time to cancel my membership.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/national-trust-faces-backlash-for-covering-up-male-busts-at-exhibition-a3981526.html

[AuntLydia]

you are probably right Naomi,maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick. Anyway Cragside is not so very far from where I live and is beautiful. :-)

[naomi24]

No problem. Is that anywhere near Bamburgh and the Farne Islands?

[chrissa1]

Yes it is. I live within 10 miles of Cragside. We always used to take friends from outside, Northumberland to visit when they stayed with is.

All the paintings are wonderful and we would have been very cross and disappointed not to have seen all of them.

Stupid National Trust.

[douglas9401]

Stuff like this gives me the willies.

[AuntLydia]

Naomi sorry just got back after dinner.
Cragside is just south of Alnwick , near Rothbury so you are in the right direction, Bamburgh is a bit further up the coast via the A1.

[chrissa1]

More West than South, Auntl.

[chrissa1]

West South West. :)

[AuntLydia]

chrissa I don't think Naomi wanted detailed directions. To be pedantic I would say its south west of Alnwick off the A697 ;-)

[naomi24]

AL/Chrissa, I know Alnwick and Bamburgh. Beautiful part of the country. Fabulous coastline up there.

Douglas, when you say things like that I never know if you're joking.

[chrissa1]

Ah well you see, Auntl. I leave Alnwick and drive directly West, then the road goes down hill for quite a way, South.

[chrissa1]

;))

[douglas9401]

Always joking, Naomi, unless I'm not, but usually am.

Most of the time.

Just picture Jack Dee but much poorer and more photogenic.

[vulcan42]

The problem the national trust have is they try to work with students as much as possible and sometimes give them too much free rein. This event was organised by students and as far as I know they decided to cover the other artwork. I've seen other examples in the N T gardens, horticulture students are invited to re design an area and sometimes the result is not what the trust wanted but they're trying to give the students hands on experience. Perhaps it's something the Trust should re evaluate.

[Barmaid]

The trouble with organisations like the NT is that they subscribe to PC stuff in a very overt fashion - no doubt they want to be inclusive. Trouble is an 17th century mansion wasnt blummin inclusive so they attempt to impose modern values on historical scenarios. Which is nonsense. Yes we ought to consider the modern against the historial but they just come up with "token" stuff to tick the boxes. Generally it's daft, nonsensical, doesnt fit it and causes trouble.

And then when there is a backlash they come up with ***** to justify it. I'd have more respect for them if they were open.

I am not sure I shall be renewing our membership next year. Dont get me wrong, I have every sympathy with minority groups who may not be represented by the NT, but the simple fact is they are preserving stuff from an era that wasnt PC. Shoehorning of the worst kind imo.

[chrissa1]

Cragside is a wonderful place to visit for the very fact that Sir William Armstrong owned it and made it the first place to have electric light.

It has nothing to do with male/female whatever. I’m sick and tired of all of this stupid carryon.

He was a brilliant man who brought an amazing thing to the whole of Great Britain. The fact that he was a man bears no.............. I’m speechless.

[emmie]

essentially telling us what we can see and what we can't, don't blame you for cancelling membership i would do the same im sure

[naomi24]

Emmie, more to the point this is, in effect, telling us what to think about. I don’t know why MWG14, who posted first on this thread, has decided to cancel his subscription, but that’s my reason. We all know that every museum stores items away from the public gaze and I accept that, but this smacks of the current fad for removing pictures/statues of men prominent in this country’s Colonial past and of those who are deemed too white and not diverse enough. Students at Manchester recently painted over a wonderful Kipling poem because they felt it “dehumanised people of colour”, and the president of Southampton University Students Union vowed to paint over a memorial dedicated to former students who had given their lives in battle. How crass is that?! Unlike these morons who wouldn’t recognise their good fortune in living in a free society if it jumped up and hit them on the head, I’m not ashamed of our history. I’m a patriot, I like my country and I want its heritage preserved, which is why I subscribe to the National Trust – or did.

Phew! And breathe. ;o)

[vetuste_ennemi]

Self-declared bigot, then, Naomi: defending Mr. Kipling (him of Gunga Din and If, not the cakes).

It's nice, however, to know that insulting Britain's war dead is not a crime. Although I understand that according to the ECHR insulting a paedophile religious leader is.

[naomi24]

Just think the ever-fragrant Margo Leadbetter, v_e. When asked by a pompous council official who she thought she was, replied, “I am the silent majority”.

[AuntLydia]

Cragside is not a 17th Century mansion it was built between 1862-4.

Details here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cragside

Its a lovely place to visit, somewhere you can go time and time again