The bull won.
The four-foot-high &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; statue, which was erected to face the iconic 11-foot-high &#8220;Charging Bull&#8221; statue in front of Wall Street to urge corporations to choose more women in the upper echelon of their companies, <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/418678-fearless-girl-statue-on-wall-street-removed-from-spot-in-front">was removed</a> Tuesday night, leaving only two lonely footprints where the statue had stood.
A plaque left where the statue stood read, &#8220;Fearless Girl is on the move to The New York Stock Exchange. Until she&#8217;s there, stand for her.&#8221; No date has been set for the statue&#8217;s new installation.
Back in April, New York City officials said both statues would be moved to the stock exchange because pedestrians gathered around them created traffic problems. State Street Global Advisors chief Cyrus Taraporevala stated, &#8220;Since Fearless Girl&#8217;s placement, more than 150 companies have added a female director to their boards. Our hope is that by moving her closer to the NYSE she will encourage more companies to take action and, more broadly, that she will continue to inspire people from all walks of life on the issue of gender diversity.&#8221;
Mayor Bill de Blasio said in April, &#8220;We are proud to be home to the Fearless Girl. She is a potent symbol of the need for change at the highest levels of corporate America &#8212; and she will become a durable part of our city&#8217;s civic life.&#8221; Eric Phillips, de Blasio&#8217;s press secretary, tweeted, &#8220;The Bull will almost certainly be moved &#8212; and will very likely wind up reunited with Fearless Girl. But it&#8217;s tricky and some things still need to be sorted out. Anyone who&#8217;s ever relocated a 7,000-lb bronze bull knows what I mean.&#8221;
The &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; statue was erected in March 2017, by State Street Global Advisors, angering Arturo Di Modica, the creator of &#8220;Charging Bull,&#8221; who installed it in 1989. <a href="https://apnews.com/16a51c4fff764b6ea73be5e9799656f6?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP">AP reported</a> that Di Modica complained that his statue was meant to portray &#8220;strength, power and love,&#8221; but the presence of &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; limned his statue as something negative. He said in 2017, &#8220;The girl is right in front doing this, &#8216;Now I&#8217;m here, what are you going to do?&#8217;&#8221; Di Modica told <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-street-bull-artist-calls-bs-on-fearless-girl-statue-2017-03-20">MarketWatch</a>: &#8220;That is not a symbol! That&#8217;s an advertising trick. My bull is a symbol for America. My bull is a symbol of prosperity and for strength. Women, girls, that&#8217;s great, but that&#8217;s not what that (my sculpture) is.&#8221; He added to the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/charging-bull-artist-girl-statue-advertising-trick-article-1.3003271">NY Daily News</a>: &#8220;I did it for all the American people. Not designed for men, women or gay.&#8221;
Di Modica donated the &#8220;Charging Bull&#8221; statue to New York City in 1989 after he spent $350,000 of his own money to cast the 7,100 lb. bronze bull. He placed it in front of the New York Stock Exchange in December 1989 to comfort Americans after the stock market crash in 1987.
In May 2017, New York City sculptor Alex Gardega created a urinating dog sculpture, titled &#8220;Pissing Pug,&#8221; and placed it next to the left leg of the Fearless Girl statue. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/16975/sculpture-fearless-girl-statue-trolls-feminists-amanda-prestigiacomo">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
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Gardega was <a href="https://nypost.com/2017/05/29/pissed-off-artist-adds-statue-of-urinating-dog-next-to-fearless-girl/">disgusted</a> over the &#8220;corporate nonsense&#8221; move to place the Fearless Girl across from sculptor Arturo Di Modica&#8217;s Charging Bull on Wall Street; &#8220;Pissing Pug&#8221; was his retaliation. &#8220;It has nothing to do with feminism, and it is disrespect to the artist that made the bull,&#8221; explained Gardega. &#8220;That bull had integrity. I decided to build this dog and make it crappy to downgrade the statue, exactly how the girl is a downgrade on the bull.&#8221;
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‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Moved. ‘Charging Bull’ Still Standing.

Fearless Girl

Wall Street

The controversial feminist &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; statue, which has been staring down Wall Street&#8217;s &#8220;Charging Bull&#8221; &#8212; a symbol of the robust American economic machine &#8212; is about to get a new home in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
The statue, a publicity stunt commissioned by State Street Global Advisors, has &#8220;done its job,&#8221; State Street&#8217;s (male) CEO Cyrus Taraporevala told <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/fearless-girl-leaving-charging-bull-moving-home/story?id=54582068">ABC News</a>. He believes that 150 new female C-suite employees, added since &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; first went up, owe their jobs to the tiny bronze avatar.
Since Fearless Girl&#8217;s placement, more than 150 companies have added a female director to their boards,&#8221; he said &#8220;Our hope is that by moving her closer to the NYSE she will encourage more companies to take action and, more broadly, that she will continue to inspire people from all walks of life on the issue of gender diversity.&#8221;
The new female employees are probably the result of correlation and not causation, but no matter. Taraporevala is hardly the first person to claim &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; was evidence of a powerful new era in women&#8217;s equality. Everyone from New York&#8217;s mayor to Sen. Elizabeth Warren got shots of themselves posing alongside the statue, even though in staring down Wall Street&#8217;s &#8220;Charging Bull,&#8221; the little girl was really standing in the way of actual progress.
Not everyone loved it. The &#8220;Charging Bull&#8221; artist said it interfered with the meaning of his original work. Even some feminists objected to what they called an <a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/04/16/fearless-girl-must-go-its-a-tourist-attraction-and-an-appealing-fantasy-but-a-terrible-symbol-for-feminism/">&#8220;infantilizing&#8221; symbol</a> that reinforces, not shatters, sexism.
But typical leftists were smitten; &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; had a lease on its tiny bit of real estate for one year. Mayor Bill de Blasio extended that agreement in order to give the statue and its artist time to find it a new home. Now, the city claims that it will probably send &#8220;Charging Bull&#8221; over to the NYSE as well, even though it&#8217;s been a fixture in its current spot for close to four decades.
They have to be together. Or something.

Wall Street’s ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Is Moving To The New York Stock Exchange

Bill de Blasio

Street Art

The controversial Wall Street &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; statue &#8212; a corporate publicity stunt that turned into a feminist icon &#8212; will likely be moved next week from her home in New York City&#8217;s financial district, but if she goes, she&#8217;ll be taking the iconic Wall Street bull statue she co-opted with her.
The statue was supposed to be only a one-month wonder, but after she became a magnet for tourists, and for female legislators looking to prove they &#8220;persist&#8221; and &#8220;resist&#8221; with a photo opportunity, NYC&#8217;s mayor Bill de Blasio extended the statue&#8217;s lease through March 8, 2018. But now, it has come time to decommission the statue, and since she makes no sense displayed alone, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/28/news/companies/fearless-girl-charging-bull-wall-street-statues/index.html">NYC is talking about uprooting her famous foil</a> and displaying the pair somewhere else.
<a href="http://www.adweek.com/agencies/fearless-girl-is-getting-a-permanent-home-in-nyc-though-she-may-be-relocated/">According to Ad Week</a>, &#8220;the parties have already decided to make the pair&#8212;now considered inseparable&#8212;a permanent fixture in the New York City landscape. The only issue yet to be determined is whether they will stay in their current location, which could be redesigned, or be moved to a new one.&#8221;
This is a problem, not just for the Charging Bull, but for the bull&#8217;s sculptor, Arturo Di Modica, who has complained about the &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; since the beginning. The &#8220;Charging Bull&#8221; is designed to represent a &#8220;bull market,&#8221; and it was installed in the 1980s, when Wall Street felt it was achieving world domination. In effect, the &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; so beloved by Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, and other skin-deep feminists, is standing in opposition to American economic success &#8212; not male oppression.
Di Modica spoke out forcefully against letting &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; remain in place because it co-opted his artistic work, and changed and devalued his message. For her to remain with the &#8220;Charging Bull&#8221; indefinitely not only means pseudo-feminism has won out over economic power, but it&#8217;s proof that a social justice theme is enough to overcome even an artist&#8217;s objections.
It also proves that &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; simply can&#8217;t stand alone.
But Di Modica was derided as sexist when he made the complaint and he&#8217;s unlikely to stop de Blasio&#8217;s plan now. Thankfully the American economy is still responding.

Wall Street’s ‘Fearless Girl’ Is Probably Coming Down Next Week — But She’s Taking The Bull With Her

On Wednesday night, a member of a group called &#8220;Draw The Blue Line,&#8221; which has protested President Trump&#8217;s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord, decided to express her feelings by <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/14/iconic-wall-street-bull-statue-vandalized-by-trump-protesters.html">dumping blue paint</a> over the iconic Wall Street bull statue.
The NYPD told CNBC that not only had the paint been poured over the bull, but a sash stating &#8220;Draw The Blue Line&#8221; was placed around the &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; statue that stands opposite the bull.
The vandal, Courtney Frances Fallon, emailed CNBC she was &#8220;trying to cover New York City (and the world) with horizontal blue lines to represent rising sea levels for the UN General Assembly. My hope is that the blue will become so ubiquitous that UN members and delegates will see it and reply by publicly reaffirming their commitment to the Paris Agreement.&#8221;
The UN General Assembly is meeting between September 12-25.
Draw The Blue Line <a href="http://gothamist.com/2017/09/14/climate_change_charging_bull.php">states</a> that the group&#8217;s goal is &#8220;to communicate to attendees of the United Nations General Assembly that the public supports the Paris Agreement. Hopefully, they will hear this message and reassert their country&#8217;s commitment to the fight against climate change. This visual conversation will be a tangible demonstration of solidarity against climate change denial.&#8221; The group&#8217;s <a href="https://www.drawtheblueline.com">website</a> states, &#8220;&#8230;Draw The Blue Line is asking New York City and the rest of the world to put horizontal blue lines across buildings (facades and interiors), trees, fences, windows, on social media, everywhere during the 2017 UN General Assembly (September 12-25, 2017) to show support for the Paris Agreement.&#8221;

Trump Protester Vandalizes Wall Street Bull

Donald Trump

Paris

On Thursday afternoon, New York Mayor Bill De Blasio tweeted about the wonders of the Left&#8217;s favorite new New York icon: the bronze statue of a &#8220;fearless girl&#8221; who stands in defiance of the even more famous statue of a Wall Street bull.
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Unlike the Charging Bull, which has become a symbol of Wall Street, Fearless Girl is becoming a beacon for the fight against injustice.
&#8212; Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/852600296605986816">April 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Here are a few things you need to know:
1. The &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; Statue Is Funded By A Hedge Fund. State Street Global Advisors is behind the sculpture. State Street Global <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/fearless-girl-wall-street/519393/">manages $2.5 trillion in assets</a>. The notion that it funded a statue to rail against capitalism is idiotic. State Street isn&#8217;t just representative of Wall Street &#8211; it invests in Wall Street on the most general level, by putting all money into funds that &#8220;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/fearless-girl-wall-street/519393/">track the performance of indexes</a>.&#8221; As Wall Street goes, so too does Fearless Girl.
2. That Hedge Fund Has Few Female Executives. State Street Global Advisors has 28 high level executives, according to The New York Daily News. Five are female. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/firm-behind-fearless-girl-statue-counts-women-executives-article-1.3010972">Total</a>.
3. Employment Relies Heavily On Wall Street In New York City. According to the New York Federal Reserve, the financial services sector represented 35 percent of all paid income in the <a href="https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/current_issues/ci12-1.pdf">city of New York</a> as of 2000, and more than one in ten people employed in New York City were employed on Wall Street.
The Fearless Girl statue is a bit of stupid virtue signaling by a firm looking for some good publicity. De Blasio has embraced it, because he is a stupid man. But here&#8217;s what De Blasio should understand: if the bull actually walks away from New York, so too do all the jobs.

Communist New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Drops An INSANE Tweet About ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue

The internet won today.
During a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pix11news/videos/10155274222422042/">press conference</a> Monday, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) said she wants &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange:
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&#8220;We have also requested from the iconic New York Stock Exchange to have the Fearless Girl ring the bell at an appropriate time.&#8221;
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There&#8217;s one problem, but it&#8217;s a pretty big one: &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; is a statue. Maloney later clarified how such a magical thing would work:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMaloney">@</a><a href="https://twitter.com/RepMaloney">RepMaloney</a>&#8216;s idea of how Fearless Girl ringing Wall St. bull would work: a group of women leaders &amp; a little girl dressed as statue do it.
&#8212; Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/erinmdurkin/status/846382811602935808">March 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
Despite Maloney&#8217;s clarification, Twitter had better ideas:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/erinmdurkin">@erinmdurkin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMaloney">@RepMaloney</a> I suppose you could tip it over near the bell, so the impact would ring it.
&#8212; WhyteNoize (@InfernalDante86) <a href="https://twitter.com/InfernalDante86/status/846387198907830274">March 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/erinmdurkin">@erinmdurkin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMaloney">@RepMaloney</a> Are we sure she&#8217;s not a little boy? Maybe someone should ask and not assume just because she is wearing a dress!!
&#8212; MatthewLanfear (@matthew_lanfear) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthew_lanfear/status/846423056578990080">March 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Note: Fearless Girl is not an actual girl. <a href="https://t.co/DBLZSroDLG">https://t.co/DBLZSroDLG</a>
&#8212; Jillian Jorgensen (@Jill_Jorgensen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jill_Jorgensen/status/846376471916662785">March 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Jill_Jorgensen">@Jill_Jorgensen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ThomasHCrown">@ThomasHCrown</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/erinmdurkin">@erinmdurkin</a> This is how you get Skynet.
&#8212; Chase D. Troutner (@Captain_Strongo) <a href="https://twitter.com/Captain_Strongo/status/846395923945213953">March 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/jtLOL">@jtLOL</a> &#8220;First she insists we carry her all the way up here and now she just stands there&#8221;
&#8212; KDJF (@KDJFoxNH) <a href="https://twitter.com/KDJFoxNH/status/846380369129734153">March 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/jtLOL">@jtLOL</a> Does this story end with the burning down of a haunted statue factory in Mexico?
&#8212; Kelly Kinsley (@kakinsley) <a href="https://twitter.com/kakinsley/status/846385865295347712">March 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
Have Geppetto summon the Blue Fairy! Ring that bell, Fearless Girl.

Democratic Rep. Wants ‘Fearless Girl’ To Ring Bell At New York Stock Exchange

Liberalism

Arturo Di Modica, 76, the Sicilian artist who created the Charging Bull sculpture that stands on Wall Street to celebrate the prosperity and strength of America, is <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4332842/Charging-Bull-artist-says-Fearless-Girl-publicity-stunt.html">furious</a> that his sculpture now faces the bronze Fearless Girl statue installed March 7 to celebrate International Women&#8217;s day.
Di Modica told <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-street-bull-artist-calls-bs-on-fearless-girl-statue-2017-03-20">MarketWatch</a>: &#8220;That is not a symbol! That&#8217;s an advertising trick. My bull is a symbol for America. My bull is a symbol of prosperity and for strength. Women, girls, that&#8217;s great, but that&#8217;s not what that (my sculpture) is.&#8221; He added to the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/charging-bull-artist-girl-statue-advertising-trick-article-1.3003271">NY Daily News</a>: &#8220;I did it for all the American people. Not designed for men, women or gay.&#8221; 
Di Modica donated the Charging Bull statue to New York City in 1989 after he spent $350,000 of his own money to cast the 7,100 lb bronze bull. He placed it in front of the New York Stock Exchange in December 1989 to comfort Americans after the stock-market crash in 1987.
The bull was initially erected in Queens, but then quickly moved to where it currently stands in front of the Bowling Green Park.
State Street Global placed the Fearless Girl opposite the bull as a symbol of the company&#8217;s effort to encourage gender diversity on Wall Street. The Fearless Girl&#8217;s artist Kristen Visbal told the <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2017/03/07/creating-the-girl-who-stared-down-the-wall-street-bull/">Wall Street Journal</a>: &#8220;Wall Street is a traditionally male environment and it says, &#8216;Hey, we&#8217;re here.&#8217;&#8221;
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&#8220;That is not a symbol! That&#8217;s an advertising trick. My bull is a symbol for America.&#8221;
Arturo Di Modica, who created the Charging Bull
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New York City mayoral spokeswoman Natalie Grybauskas said of the Fearless Girl, &#8220;This temporary installation has elevated important conversations about women in leadership, and we&#8217;re as excited by that as many New Yorkers are! Making an art piece a permanent part of the City&#8217;s streetscape requires thorough and thoughtful review of a variety of logistical and design factors. We&#8217;re exploring the possibility of keeping the Fearless Girl for longer than currently permitted.&#8221;

Artist Who Created Wall Street’s ‘Charging Bull’ Hates ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue

On Tuesday, CNN, in its inestimable wisdom and desire to champion women&#8217;s rights, actually saluted a bronze statue of a young girl for standing its ground fearlessly against the blizzard that hit New York.
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New York&#8217;s &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; statue stands her ground against the Wall Street bull, even in the snow <a href="https://t.co/66S1V9KFJ6">https://t.co/66S1V9KFJ6</a> <a href="https://t.co/bSMjVJ78kN">pic.twitter.com/bSMjVJ78kN</a>
&#8212; CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/841638800090628096">March 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; was <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/07/news/girl-statue-wall-street-bull/?sr=twCNN031417northeast-winter-weather0115PMVODtopLink&amp;linkId=35456116">installed</a> the day before International Women&#8217;s Day by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) to publicize its attempt to increase the number of women on their clients&#8217; corporate boards. The roughly 50-inch-tall bronze statue was placed opposite Wall Street&#8217;s famous charging-bull statue.
On March 7, State Street tweeted, &#8220;We wanted to highlight the power of women in leadership. So we made room in the one place business couldn&#8217;t ignore.&#8221; Ron O&#8217;Hanley, president and CEO of SSGA, giving the keynote speech delivered at the Corporate Governance Symposium, stated:
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Today, we are calling on companies to take concrete steps to increase gender diversity on their boards and have issued clear guidance to help them begin to take action. A key contributor to effective independent board leadership is diversity of thought, which requires directors with different skills, backgrounds and expertise.
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O&#8217;Hanley added, &#8220;Certain research shows that companies with greater levels of gender diversity have had stronger financial performance as well as fewer governance-related issues such as bribery, corruption, shareholder battles and fraud.&#8221; He told <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/fearless-girl-wall-street/519393/">The Atlantic</a>:
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With the statue, we were very focused on wanting to send the right message. The artist, Kristen Visbal, was terrific in trying to understand what this commission was really about. Early renditions had a more confrontational pose. But the point was not that&#8212;it was not &#8220;You versus me.&#8221; The point was that where there once was just a you, now there&#8217;s a me, and we&#8217;re here together. I&#8217;m getting a little intergalactic on you! Sorry.
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SSGA&#8217;s website<a href="https://www.ssga.com/global/en/our-insights/viewpoints/enhancing-gender-diversity-on-boards-emea.html"> stated</a>:
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There has been an overwhelming reaction to the girl since her arrival, with thousands of people taking to social media to express their support. We are encouraged by the positive response, as our goal was to raise awareness and drive a conversation around the need to improve gender diversity in corporate leadership roles. 
As one of the largest investment managers in the world and a significant shareholder we believe that corporate board diversity enhances board quality and effectiveness as it brings together directors with different skills, backgrounds and expertise. 
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&#8220;New York&#8217;s &#8216;Fearless Girl&#8217; statue stands her ground against the Wall Street bull, even in the snow.&#8221;
CNN
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SSGA invests in over 3,500 companies in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, and represents more than $30 trillion in market capitalization.

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