Photo Of 'Wall Street Finance Broseph' Humping 'Fearless Girl' Statue Goes Viral

FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NY — A photo of a "Wall Street finance broseph" humping the new "Fearless Girl" statue went viral this weekend, with internet commentators decrying how the man treated the statue.

The "Fearless Girl" statue was installed opposite Wall Street's famous charging bull on March 7, the eve of International Women's Day. The temporary statue was put in place last week to publicize an asset management company's initiative for greater gender diversity on public companies' boards. A passer-by snapped a photo of a young man, whom she described as a "Wall Street finance broseph," gyrating on the statue and posted it on Thursday.

"He pretended to have sex with the image of a little girl," wrote Alexis Kaloyanides, who posted photos on Instagram and Facebook.

Kaloyanides described the situation to the New York Daily News.

"There were people there, a family with a young girl who was posing with the statue, and everyone was talking about empowering children and women and the overall political climate," she told the paper. "And then to have this 20-something show up and begin grinding against a state of a 6-year-old girl was revolting."

Both Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray condemned the incident. De Blasio labeled it as "rape culture" in a tweet.

Multiple New York City representatives have called for the statue to be made permanent, and a change.org petition asking de Blasio to make it a permanent fixture had received more than 17,000 signatures as of Monday afternoon.

Lead image via Ciara McCarthy/Patch.