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Will NYC invite the ‘Fearless Girl’ to stay on Wall Street?

ger. “My bull is a symbol for with hands on hips and chin facing a bull.” The second
America. My bull is a sym- up. “Then we thought, this was a “beautiful Latina girl,
bol of prosperity and for is a really big bull and we so everyone could relate
strength.” should increase the height to the Fearless Girl.”Visbal,
The girl’s sculptor has no to 50 inches,” she said. “But who was born in Monte-
hostile feelings toward the I made sure to keep her video, Uruguay, while her
bull.“I love Charging Bull!” features soft; she’s not defi- American father was in the
Visbal told The Associated ant, she’s brave, proud and foreign service, is to be hon-
Press on Sunday, speak- strong, not belligerent.” ored Monday along with
ing from her home in Re- The sculptor based her State Street on the steps of
hoboth Beach, Delaware. work on two Delaware chil- New York’s City Hall by a
“But women are here, and dren — a friend’s daughter group of prominent biparti-
we’re here to stay.” she said had “great style san women who are asking
She was commissioned to and a great stance, and I that the statue be made
create a 36-inch-tall girl told her to pretend she was permanent.q

In this March 23, 2017 photo, two women pose with the Fearless
Girl statue in New York. Pressure is mounting on the city to let the
Fearless Girl stay.
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
VERENA DOBNIK much differently.“The bull
Associated Press represents men and pow-
NEW YORK (AP) — Should er,” says Cristina Pogor-
the “Fearless Girl” stand up evici, 18, a student from
to Wall Street’s charging Bucharest, Romania, who
bull forever? visited the statues this past
That’s the question New week. “So she is a message
York City officials are fac- of women’s power and
ing after a statue of a po- things that are changing
nytailed girl in a windblown in the world right now.”Holli
dress went up in front of the Sargeant, 20, a visitor from
bronze bull early this month Queensland, Australia, says
and immediately became the 4-foot-tall, 250-pound
a tourist draw and internet bronze girl “is standing up
sensation. against something and
What was intended as a we see her as powerful
temporary display to en- image. She represents all
courage corporations the young women in the
to put more women on world that want to make
their boards is now get- a difference.”Such shifting
ting a second look in light perceptions of the bull —
of its popularity, which has from American hero to vil-
spawned an online petition lain of sorts — outrage bull
seeking to keep it. sculptor Arturo De Modica,
But does keeping the girl who wants the girl gone.
past her scheduled April He dismissed Kristen Vis-
2 deadline forever alter bal’s statue as nothing
the meaning of the bull? more than an “an advertis-
After all, the 11-foot-tall, ing trick,” noting the bronze
7,100-pound bull has been was a marketing effort on
hugely popular in its own the eve of the March 8 In-
right; it was placed in a ternational Women’s Day
lower Manhattan traffic by Boston-based State
median in the wake of the Street Global Advisors and
1987 stock market crash as its New York advertising
a symbol of Americans’ fi- firm, McCann.
nancial resilience and can- As for his bull, “I put it there
do spirit. for art,” the Italian-born
Some fans of the bronze sculptor told MarketWatch,
girl already see the bull which first reported his an-