On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 04:11:29PM -0500, knarf wrote: > Yes, I said that, and of course: > > 1) I was talking about adults, although lord knows kids much younger than her > have been sexualized through kiddie beauty pageants and the like, and, > > 2) I was talking about society's view of nudity not my personal view. > > That being said there is obviously nothing wrong or sexual about this photo. > > Sometimes I think that people do crap like this in hopes that some people > will get all up-in-arms and yell and scream about political correctness run > amok. So yes, an obviously stupid decision that we can all tut-tut about and > shake our heads at and wonder what the hell they were thinking.
I think that in this case it was a mom showing off a cute picture of her daughter. > > But in the end what does it mean or prove? And what does it have to do with > our earlier thread on nudity and sexualization and disparity in gender > portrayals? There are people who can sexualize *anything*, and if we let the attitudes of the few dictate the actions of the many, then nobody can do anything. > > Here's a question you may want to ask: would we all be crowing were this a > photo of a 21 year old with a skinny waist and 36 inch bustline? Would anyone > dare say there's nothing sexual about that photo? If a photo of a bare chested 21 year old man can be not sexual, then one of a 21 year old woman can also be not sexual. There are people that would sexualize one of Darby's street photos of a pretty girl smoking more than they would of the same girl topless in a recreation of the photo I linked to. Don't believe me? google "smoking fetish" sometime and see what you get. I think that the situation with this particular photo is that facebook's system is entirely automated, and all it takes is a few people reporting a photo for it to automatically be taken down, with no sentient oversight. It's almost enough to make someone want to start a campaign to get people to start flagging photos of christmas decorations as inappropriate. > > Cheers, > > frank > > Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > >On the subject of some people finding any nudity to be sexual: > >http://thefeministbreeder.com/why-subscribe/tfb-banned-facebook/ > > “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
