Controversial Mermaid Statue Faces Demolition Amid Shocking Accusations of Objectification—What’s Really Behind the Outrage?
The statue was first erected next to Hans Christian Anderson’s Little Mermaid
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The statue was first erected in Copenhagen in 2006, only yards from the bronze statue of the Little Mermaid–which as a tribute to Christian Andersen’s tale–was sculpted from bronze and perched on a rock alongside the city’s Langelinie promenade.
Politics and dissent erupted around Den Stor Havfrue, which was relocated to Dragør Fort, outside Copenhagen, in 2018.
It has since been deemed a sore thumb there, too, with claims that it clashes with the locale’s 1910 heritage.
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