DigitalJunkie said:
Perhaps for an uptight, puritanical, fundamentalist religious "public," but that's not a public I believe should be acquiesced to.
I mean come on, it's just plain silly. Women wearing skimpy bikinis can be found not only on broadcast television on a routine basis, but in the actual "public" as well, leaving virtually nothing left to the imagination as to female anatomy.
But if a goddamn NIPPLE should happen to peek out, OH MY GOD! QUICK! COVER THE CHILDREN'S EYES!
Oh dear. I notice the nanny filter here allows the word "nipple." Some innocent child might read it and start wondering what a nipple is. This could lead to their parents being asked some very awkward questions.
Really, it's beyond silly.
Maybe the (intact) post w/pics could be moved to the "sin bin" for those of us who aren't easily offended?
Really. Once the pic was removed, they might just as well have removed the post too for all the good it is without the pic.
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G.Kleinschmidt said:
Yeah. Somehow it's ok to show bare breasts as long as they belong to African natives, or dramatic depictions of African natives (i.e. the miniseries Roots). It's also ok to show African wildlife humping like there's no tomorrow.
But show the bare breasts of a non-African native and well... like I said, it's beyond silly. But you can't reason with the irrational.
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Steve Eddy said:
Yeah, that’s the double standard I had in mind.
There’s a rather disgusting foundation of racism through it too, IMO. Most fixations with nudity stem from religious taboos on sex – and female sexuality in particular. But with regards to her sexuality, the native woman is considered less human (or more of an animal), so therefore inoffensive unclad.
Cheers,
Glen
G.Kleinschmidt said:
Exactly!
Another example of the hypocrisy here in the US.
On broadcast television, you can't swing a dead cat without running into a commercial for boner pills or "male enhancement" pills and creams. Yet condom commercials are still taboo. You only see condom commercials on cable channels like MTV.
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Steve Eddy said:Ah, you're in Oz, where I've been told the word "cra*" is considered to be worse than the word "shi*" (and why you can't even say "cra*" here). Though every Ozzie I've ever asked about this has said it's a load of cra*.
Ha! Put that in your debugger and debug it
. Hey, somebody debuggered the debugger bug!
SY said:
Sorry, I can't buy that argument. DiyAudio is about audio. The subject of the thread is funny ads for audio gear, and what he posted was a scan of an ad for audio gear.
If it was a contextual issue, then why was only the pic deleted leaving a post which is pretty worthless without the pic?
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P.S. I lost the URL for the Naughty Asian Nurses forum. Could you send it to me again? Thanks!
andy_c said:Ha! Put that in your debugger and debug it
Actually on AOL years ago (and it may well still be the case) you couldn't use asterisks like that. It was considered "masked vulgarity." In fact, I was once banned on their Newsroom forum for saying literally "the F-word." "The F-word" I was told was also considered "masked vulgarity.
*sigh*
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Steve Eddy said:
Ah, you're in Oz, where I've been told the word "cra*" is considered to be worse than the word "shi*" (and why you can't even say "cra*" here). Though every Ozzie I've ever asked about this has said it's a load of cra*.
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Yeah, that does sound like crap.
Cheers,
Glen
PS
(Hackers can post anything)
In the US the lunatics are running the asylum.
Show murder, torture, and all other manner of violence, but fer chrissakes, don't show a nipple! If we weren't constantly bombarded by images of violence we might not be willing to go to foreign lands, meet interesting people, and kill them.
I they were to start allowing us to see the occasional nipple we might want to travel to foreign lands, meet interesting people, and "love" them.
I_F
Show murder, torture, and all other manner of violence, but fer chrissakes, don't show a nipple! If we weren't constantly bombarded by images of violence we might not be willing to go to foreign lands, meet interesting people, and kill them.
I they were to start allowing us to see the occasional nipple we might want to travel to foreign lands, meet interesting people, and "love" them.
I_F
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