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Three months after a statue of a defiant little girl was installed facing New York’s Charging Bull statue, an artist has installed yet another statue in protest: A small pug peeing on the girl’s leg.

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Though his work was condemned as an anti-feminist backlash, the statue’s creator Alex Gardega insisted he’s just making a point about how it feels to have one’s statue toyed with.

“I decided to build this dog and make it crappy to downgrade the statue, exactly how the girl is a downgrade on the bull,” Gardega told the New York Post.

Fearless Girl, installed just before International Women’s Day on March 8, is a life-sized girl standing defiantly in front of the New York financial district’s iconic bull statue.

The placement of Fearless Girl has angered the bull’s creator, Arturo Di Modica, who says it alters his statue’s original meaning as a symbol of the “strength and power of the American people.”

Gardega has not met Di Modica, but said he empathized with the artist and meant his statue, Pissing Pug, as a tongue-in-cheek commentary.

“There is plenty of room for ‘Fearless Girl.’ It just interferes with another artist’s work/vision,” Gardega told NBC News.

Nevertheless, almost as soon as the peeing pug was spotted, Gardega was being lambasted online as an icon of “male fragility.”

“Man perturbed by powerful women protests Fearless Girl statue with peeing dog,” declared the official Twitter account of the Women’s March.