Hello all El 26/07/18 a las 23:32, gregor herrmann escribió: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:34:19 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > >> Can you explain what makes you feel uncomfortable about it? >> Is it (semantics of) the word itself or context? > > For me: The context. > > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 03:09:45 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> What's wrong with looking at boobs? > > Nothing in general, but: context. > > > This whole discussion reminded me of a campaign by the German project > pinkstinks.de called "Sexy yes, sexism no": > > https://pinkstinks.de/sexy-oder-sexistisch/ > > Summary in my words: > > It's fine to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell women's > underwear (left picture: "Bra 29 EUR"). > It's not ok to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell a chair > (and the scantily clad woman is just decoration / an object to draw > attention to the ad) (right picture: "Chair 199 EUR"). > I think that explains the issue of objectification quite well. > > Translated to packages: > > It's IMO fine to talk about and show breasts in a game which teaches > the names of body parts to children; or in an app that helps women to > detect early warnings signs of breast cancer; or (Ian's example) in > software controlling sex toys; etc. Because there they are simply > on-topic. > > And it's IMO not ok to use the boobs theme for a web scraper or other > software unrelated to boobs themselves, where its only function is > to make a small group of users giggle while objectifying, offending > or boring the rest of the world. >
+1 I didn't contribute first to the discussion because when I catch up reading the thread (several times during this summer) my brain is exhausted already, and couldn't find the words. Also because mosquito bites [1]: the inner-me debates between ignoring or using the flamethrower; usually ignoring wins, in my case. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDd3bzA7450 - How microaggressions are like mosquito bites • Same Difference Thanks, Gregor. Kind regards -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona