Susan Burns had to violently attack artist Paul Gauguin’s 1899 painting “Two Tahitian Women” because, duh, showing two women in states of undress is “very homosexual.” That’s what the self-proclaimed CIA agent told authorities after they detained her when she struck a blow to the $80 million painting that’s hanging at Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art. (It’s on loan, eek!)
The work is “very homosexual. I was trying to remove it,” said Burns according to the criminal complaint filed against her. “I think it should be burned … I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you.” Luckily, the radio in her head did not order her to act on the kill order, so nobody died. And so much for her secret agent training: Burns was tackled by another museum patron who saw her freaking on on the 112-year-old piece, which appears to be undamaged and will be back on display today.
Now just imagine if Burns realized a few blocks away, a whole crapload of gay paintings were hanging at the National Portrait Gallery.
Sam
This woman is clearly in schizophrenic. Maybe more understanding and less snark when it comes to the mentally ill?
TMikel
Look at her eyes – soulless and demented. I wonder if that radio is AM or FM.
mike128
Yes, this is not an anti-gay issue. This woman is schizophrenic and confused. Sad story.
Kev C
This is why we can’t have nice things. She’s clearly homophobic, punching a painting of two women she imagines are lesbian.
Akula
Add another checkmark next to the legacy of Ronald Reagun, remember he was the one that had all the mental instatutions closed down, you know places were people like this could have been helped.
Fitz
Show a little compassion for a severely disabled woman, Queerty. Her life is hell, and we have no real medical technology to help her in a substantive way. Posting a pic of her and making fun of her is very low class.
Pitou
Im sorry, but this crazy lady obviously should have been locked up a long time ago.
Im not at all disputing that she’s suffering from a severe mental illness, but REALLY, would you all be so apologetic about her illness if she had in fact been armed and shot-up a class of 30 6th graders who had been looking at that painting in order to “save them” after just viewing a “very homosexual” paining? Of course all in the name of rightious religion and saving souls from the evil homos none-the-less.
Rediculous.
Bat-shit Crazy or not, she’s clearly fucked in the head and hopefully will be locked in the booby-hatch for the rest of her crazy-assed life.
justiceontherocks
Good news. The painting is back on display.
Silver
Does anyone actually have a source citing this woman’s supposed schizophrenia?
valentine ghost
@Silver: “I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you.
Adonis-of-Fire
No sympathy for schizos, they have no use and we shouldn’t keep useless things.
missanthrope
‘but REALLY, would you all be so apologetic about her illness if she had in fact been armed and shot-up a class of 30 6th graders who had been looking at that painting in order to “save them” after just viewing a “very homosexual” paining? Of course all in the name of rightious religion and saving souls from the evil homos none-the-less.”
But she didn’t. Quite frankly, more “sane” people kill other people than the mental ill do, mentally ill people are more likely to be victims of violence, especially since many are on the street or can’t maintain employment.
Do you have anything else to say except for re-hashing old, tired stereotypes about mentally ill people.
This women needs treatment, not some random asshole like you villianizing her.
Adonis-of-Fire
The mentally ill have no use and we shouldn’t keep useless things. Those we are a burden should be eliminated.
Hellarious
Posts by useless Adonis-of-Fire should be flagged as TOS violations.
There’s no need to put up with him any longer.
Charlie
I dunno, Adonis. I think compassion for the helpless and downtrodden is a rather remarkable human quality.
Fitz
The responsibility is on the museum for providing security. Mentally ill people share the same highly esteemed place, in a lot of people’s eyes, as us gays. Compassion is good. Treatment is good. All of us, and all we love is harmed that there isn’t more treatment available.
And, ironically enough, a lot of the art was made by schizophrenics. So let’s not open the concentration camps just yet, M’kay? There are plenty (plenty) of people who think us cocksuckers have no value to human society either.
For me, one of the biggest gifts of being gay is that I know what it feels like to be unreasonably vilified.
Hellarious
Fitz: Let’s remember Vincent van Gogh was most likely schizophrenic.
Shannon1981
Obviously schizophrenic. I actually feel sorry for her. I can’t really be angry at someone for something they cannot control. She needs help, and I hope she winds up in a mental health facility rather than jail.
justiceontherocks
@Adonis-of-Fire: If we eliminate useless things, that would not be good for you.
Oprah
Poor woman, she has my sympathy. She needs medical help, poor thing.
PS I think the painting is tacky and low art—i am not hearing voices. Its just my guy. Maybe i am hungry?
Adonis-of-Fire
LMAO at the tittle uppity queens here “oh have some compassion”, no wonder gays are seen as weak and worthless, most behave like old fragile women.
Anyways, if someone is unable to be self reliant then they are worthless. I hate weakness, and the kumbaya way gays think makes me want to vomit, pathetic and weak.
Grey
@justiceontherocks: Win.
Compassion is a subtle form of strength, not weakness as some would claim. I hope someone is able to help this woman.
missanthrope
@Adonis-of-Fire:
Haha, and you show your “strength” by attacking people you don’t even know through an anon name on a website? lololololololol
Girlfriend please. Someone get this baby a pacifier.
Kev C
The way I see it, homophobia is a form of mental illness. And this lady is obsessed and deranged with her irrational hatred of gays. Should she get help? Oh yes. Do I give a fuck about her? No.
Adonis-of-Fire
@ Missanthrope
No babydoll, I don’t attack the crazy…I attack weak good-for nothing pathetic queens who break in half coz the wind blew too harsh.
Jeffree
Did troll Adumbass-of-furor just call someone “babydoll”? Tacky, classless, lame, unfunny, and pathetic. Let’s add sexist & condescending.
SnidelyWhiplash
This woman clearly needs mental health treatment, not more jail time. What good what that do? How would that be a deterrent for someone without the mental capacity to control their actions?
But her delusions aren’t unusual. She’s toward one end of a spectrum of religious delusion and obsession that includes homophobia but there are lots of others on it too and their mental illness isn’t as blatant. In all honestly I don’t think Michelle Bachmann isn’t that far away from this woman but she’s an elected official with power. Does she deserve sympathy too? Where do you draw the line?
No matter what your feeling is about the existence of God, isn’t a bit “off” to believe that desert nomads of several thousand years ago had the answers to all the important questions of life and existence? Isn’t it delusional to believe those writings should be made into law? If this woman is mentally ill (and she is), she is far from the only one.
Adonis-of-Fire
What the bitch needs is a lobotomy
Jeffree
Next thing we know, someone with similar delusions will blame the gays for tsunamis, earthquakes, crop failures and the decline in marriage rates!
Ooh, wait, that’s what the fundies are *already* doing.
Yo, Cindy Jacobs, I’m talkin bout u & yr friends.
Mike in Asheville
@Adonis-of-Fire: Perhaps reincarnation is a reality: Adonis-of-Fire = Josef Mengele
What is a greater danger to human civilization: the few with mental and physical disabilities that challenge the many to care for them with compassion and support VS the many with ability and strength that ignore and dismiss the few as a burden they refuse?
So what kind of fundamentalist are you AofF? Clearly you are neither Christian nor Muslin, as both those religions require one to show compassion and care for those who cannot care for themselves (and let’s not get into what evil fundie Muslims are today and ignore the evils fundie Christians/Catholics of yesteryear — I am speaking of the requirement as laid down in both manifestos Bible/Quoran).
Atheists are humanists, so you can’t be one as you show a complete lack of humanism.
My guess is that you too are mentally ill showing no concern for others yet have the ability functionality. One would think that being gay would raise your concern about the treatment of other, oh, opps, yes, you are mentally ill.
Frank Zweegers
Weird.
greenmusic23f
@Adonis-of-Fire: Yup, come kill me “Adonis”. I have no use. I take my meds, act sane, work, and mentor. How useless of me. Oh, wait! Clearly I am DELUSIONAL about these things.