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In reply to the discussion: Why Is This Photo Deeply Offensive? [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)119. You should take it up with the OP, then.
Although I'm pretty sure he's genuinely interested in the subject matter, and not merely posting it as part of some super-secret plot to normalize the frimzhaddling of fitzwardle flardnerbishitudes or whatever.
I'm not ignoring your point, I am rejecting its central jargon-laden conceit, namely, that any picture of a scantily clad person that sexually arouses another person is somehow guilty of "objectification".
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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