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In reply to the discussion: Why Is This Photo Deeply Offensive? [View all]TNLib
(1,819 posts)11. As a hetro female
I don't find it offensive at all
That dude is hot!
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If you highlight the text and click the "excerpt" button above the text box, you will get a nice
tblue37
Apr 2017
#68
You are welcome. It took me a year or more before I figured out how other people were getting
tblue37
Apr 2017
#73
I used to know how to make the damn gray box a different color, even.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#190
You mean there are liberal websites with user communities even MORE old and cranky than DU?
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#97
I don't usually like country music, but I have to admit I like that song.
Different Drummer
Apr 2017
#63
I might be in a minority here, but this really does nothing for me, I'm female and this shot
a kennedy
Apr 2017
#14
Muscles like that make men/women look like insects. And the photo is not safe for work.
KittyWampus
Apr 2017
#16
i hate to admit, i was afraid to comment because of fear of being labelled OMG YOU'RE A SEXIST
steve2470
Apr 2017
#164
I know-I knew at the time from my PMs-- A lot of people were bullied into silence during that shit.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#165
Silly, one of the many benefits of that "underwear" is, it doesn't HAVE a back side.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#163
Or, maybe people just like to look at sexy attractive people of the opposite or same gender
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#110
People are sexually attracted to other people, often based upon physical appearance. This isn't
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#113
using your logic, cultures that strictly censor images of sex and nudity should be less misogynistic
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#183
no, actually, it would have spawned a month-long outrage, and anyone who rec'ced this thread
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#171
Why would a liberal site find it offensive? Are they overrun with conservative trolls?
AgadorSparticus
Apr 2017
#35
I imagine many people can say "whatever gets you through the night" to racist speech as well.
LanternWaste
Apr 2017
#41
"Good men doing nothing" about someone deciding of his/her own free will to pose for a sexy picture?
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#169
I wonder if you had cropped the pic at the navel if the same complaint would have occurred.
LonePirate
Apr 2017
#44
Except in my experience, at least on "progressive" sites, it's the same people who get upset.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#78
Unbelievably insensitive, to compare paid models to the victims of the Killing Fields.
Coventina
Apr 2017
#133
I have a friend who is a survivor of the killing fields. I interviewed him and survivors of three
stevenleser
Apr 2017
#145
Exactly. 3 women posing in bathing suits for a magazine isn't a "human rights atrocity" at all.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#148
There was a full month of multiple threads. Threads upon threads upon threads.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#157
Oh, I just thought that for the multiple times you referrenced it, you'd remember.
betsuni
Apr 2017
#158
Pat is so full of shit he's simply hard to take seriously enough to ridicule, if such a
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#111
uhmn my eyes were kinda drawn to the package but I'm sure that's my problem hahahaha
luvMIdog
Apr 2017
#107
The same people offended by this were offended by the split-second revealing of Janet Jackson's.....
steve2470
Apr 2017
#132
The most offensive thing that happened at the Super Bowl Halftime in the past 20 years?
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#139
I'm offended by the silliness of his HAVING CLOTHES ON IN THE SHOWER! ;-) He's actually not as
WinkyDink
Apr 2017
#149
I'm still waiting for the flood of outraged, homoeroticism-traumatized dudebros we were promised
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#198