Brassed off with bronze nudes

WHAT KATI DID NEXT: WE were at a wedding this week. It was lovely, but that’s not the story I want to tell.

We were up against it with time and I realised my children had nothing to wear.

But we did have time to pop home and see if there were any shirts in the drawer that would do for the eldest and a newish babygrow for the youngest.

There were neither: again, not the story I wish to tell, so we had to go to the Trafford Centre. And no, that’s not the story either.

I don’t like shopping at the Trafford Centre, I feel that out of town centres drain inner-city towns of their custom and I would hate for towns to be closed down slowly by a vulgar Versailles copy and nope, that is not the story I want to tell.

As you drive into the Trafford Centre from North Manchester you pass a couple of buildings on your left.

The new Ski centre and the new sky diving building, the golf complex and a few shops but then there are also some random offices of which I couldn’t tell you who works in them, one more time, that is not the story I want to tell.

Outside one of these anonymous office blocks is the most offensive statue I think I have ever seen.

Has anyone else seen it? It is a sculpture — if you can call it that — of three naked ladies leaning out frontways from one another in a connected circle.

All three have waists the size of their necks, no inner thigh to speak of and boobs that look like they have been paid for on a Visa card.

Can someone enlighten me as to why this is there? What sort of company wants bronze naked women outside their place of work?

Where are the naked men? This statue is as grotesque as it is sexist.

I am incredibly lenient with the use of the female image, however this takes 20 steps back on the feminist journey.

Emily Pankhurst will be turning in her grave.

I have so many questions needing answering about this hideous creation that I can hardly contain myself.

I feel like starting a campaign to erase this monstrosity from our streets.

Is anyone else with me? And yes, this was the story I wanted to tell.