A woman needs a man like::::::

**dbax** · 13-09-2010, 5:31pm

A woman needs a man like...... A fish needs a bicycle!

Seeing is believing

What can I say???

**geck** · 13-09-2010, 6:43pm

That looks Swell

Might have to get me one of those...

**41jas** · 13-09-2010, 6:55pm

His little legs could be flapping dam hard to get anywhere.

**hus** · 14-09-2010, 12:53pm

Can anyone tell me the message this bit of art work is suppose to convey or the connection of fish and bicycle.
* People on bikes are fishy people so stay away from them ?
* Up here fish are so smart they can ride bikes just like people ?
* Marine life are allowed to flaunt helmet laws in this area ?

Cool post

thanks for the share.

**ameerat42** · 14-09-2010, 1:15pm

His paddles are a bit short 4 his pedals

**Kym** · 14-09-2010, 1:22pm

Pike on a bike?

**kiwi** · 14-09-2010, 1:35pm

it is the gold coast, thinks often make no sense. but as long as the fish and the bike enjoy the experience its all good

**Analog6** · 14-09-2010, 3:00pm

You hot a good angle on that dbax! The most frustrating thing about the whole Swell festival is the positioning of some of the works.

**ving** · 14-09-2010, 3:05pm

i see fish on pushies every day down at brighton le sands

hehe

**Aussie Battler** · 16-09-2010, 11:07am

How could you resist the title!!

**Entrapro** · 05-10-2010, 12:19pm

I caught one of those fish one day - they're called "Push Pikes".

**macmich** · 05-10-2010, 12:21pm

if he was in victoria he would get a 50 dollar fine no helmet
cheers macca

**Analog6** · 05-10-2010, 1:07pm

Originally Posted by hus

Can anyone tell me the message this bit of art work is suppose to convey or the connection of fish and bicycle.
* People on bikes are fishy people so stay away from them ?
* Up here fish are so smart they can ride bikes just like people ?
* Marine life are allowed to flaunt helmet laws in this area ?

Cool post

thanks for the share.

From the source 'The Phrase Finder' at http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/414150.html

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

Meaning

A feminist slogan, suggesting that men are superfluous to women's needs.

Origin

This slogan is often attributed to Gloria Steinem. Other claims for origination point to Flo (Florynce) Kennedy, or to an anonymous author who painted the slogan on a wall at University of Wisconsin in 1969.

Gloria Steinem had this to say in a letter she wrote to Time magazine in autumn 2000:

"In your note on my new and happy marital partnership with David Bale, you credit me with the witticism 'A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.' In fact, Irina Dunn, a distinguished Australian educator, journalist and politician, coined the phrase back in 1970 when she was a student at the University of Sydney. She paraphrased the philosopher who said, 'Man needs God like fish needs a bicycle.' Dunn deserves credit for creating such a popular and durable spoof of the old idea that women need men more than vice versa."

Irina Dunn later confirmed Steinem's version of events, in January 2002:

"Yes, indeed, I am the one Gloria referred to. I was paraphrasing from a phrase I read in a philosophical text I was reading for my Honours year in English Literature and Language in 1970. It was 'A man needs God like a fish needs a bicycle'. My inspiration arose from being involved in the renascent women's movement at the time, and from being a bit if a smart-arse. I scribbled the phrase on the backs of two toilet doors, would you believe, one at Sydney University where I was a student, and the other at Soren's Wine Bar at Woolloomooloo, a seedy suburb in south Sydney. The doors, I have to add, were already favoured graffiti sites."

Dunn's modesty is appropriate, as 'A needs a B like a C needs a D' was a well-established format in the USA many years before 1970. For example, this usage in the Connecticut newspaper The Hartford Courant, December, 1898:

The place [Aragon, Spain] didn't need an American consul any more than a cow needs a bicycle; for it had no trade with America, and no American tourist ever dreamed of stopping there.

**Entrapro** · 06-10-2010, 12:21am

I think the fish was on the way to the Gay Mardi Gras to join the "Pykes on Bykes".

**Entrapro** · 06-10-2010, 12:22am

I was at Sydney University in the late sixties but that piece of grafitti didn't make it to the men's toilets.

**dbax** · 06-10-2010, 1:00am

thanks for providing the back ground info Odille

**bconolly** · 06-10-2010, 3:48pm

Background noted, but why is the "sculpture" on the beach front?

**dbax** · 07-10-2010, 12:17am

Originally Posted by bconolly

Background noted, but why is the "sculpture" on the beach front?

I guess he/she missed the last bus home from school (sorry couldn't help it)and had to find alternative transport.

Swell Sculpture Festival Gold coast September
http://www.southerngoldcoast.com.au/news/?p=1070

**bconolly** · 07-10-2010, 2:34pm

David and thanks for the link

BC

**vivadangermouse** · 24-10-2010, 11:43pm

wait a minute...there's something wrong with that bike's pedals!

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