Visual rhetoric

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Visual Rhetoric

The Wall Street does not miss controversy, starting with the very nature of businesses conducted in the area to what gets erected on the streets. Immediately after the stock market crash in 1987, sculptor Arturo Di Modica gifted those working in Wall Street with a “Charging Bull” statue with the hope of lifting the spirits of traders. Several years later, in 2017, a “Fearless Girl” statue surfaced in the same street, the statue now stares at the “Charging Bull.” The “Fearless Girl” statue is the creation of Kristen Visbal (Williams). Whatever goes on at Wall Street has for a very long time left women out on the dealings of the place. If someone wishes to know what corporate America looks like, a visit to Wall Street suffices to settle the curiosity. The “Fearless Girl” statue is a symbol of women and how they are willing to face and defy all odds in the corporate world and society at large.
At the foot of the “Fearless Girl” statue, there is a printing along the lines of knowing the power of women in leadership, and that the ‘girl’ makes a difference (Williams). The power of women does not count on Wall Street if the sculptor is anything to take into consideration. The dealings of Wall Street do not allow for the weak, so that is how women get considered. The predecessor sculptor in Wall Street seems to be a pro chauvinism hence the creation of the “Fearless Girl” statue.
For so long the society had forgotten that women make excellent leaders as their male counterparts.

The “Fearless Girl” statue comes strong in the midst of Wall Street to remind the corporate about women leadership prowess. The “Fearless Girl” statue has nothing at hand, she just has her hands behind a back, harmless as a young child can get. The creators of the symbol had the corporate world in mind when planting the statue just in the way of the “Charging Bull.”
Far off from the corporate world and leadership, the statue is a symbol of the fight of sexes. The “Fearless Girl” statue is an agenda pushed by feminists. Women are naturally weaker than men, hence the reason they are left out on many aspects of life. Positioning the “Fearless Girl” in the way of the “Charging Bull” is one way of establishing the feminist agenda. In a way, the bull is assumed to represent the ‘oppressing’ males in society. Women have always played victims instead of standing up to fight for their rights. The “Fearless Girl” statue is a cry of women to the ‘chauvinistic’ society for help.
Empathy does not exist in a capitalist economy; all the “Fearless Girl” statue begs for is sympathy in the face of demolition by the “Charging Bull.” Women are human beings, they deserve compassion, but they cannot go head on with the aggressors. In a real world, the girl cannot prevent the bull from charting the chosen path. Maybe, the “Fearless Girl” statue is a show of how worked up women feel in society; they have let themselves loose to the vulture to devour.
It is the 21st century, and still, women feel the society does not recognize their efforts. Creation of the “Fearless Girl” statue is in some sort women activism; women feel neglected in several aspects of nation-building. The “Fearless Girl” statue facing the “Charging Bull” shows the risks women are willing to take, to establish their place in the corporate world and society in the 21st century.

Works Cited
Williams, Weston. “Why The ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Will Stay Put On Wall Street.” The Christian Science Monitor, 2017, https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/0328/Why-the-Fearless-Girl-statue-will-stay-put-on-Wall-Street.