Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?
On July 27, 2018 3:09:35 AM GMT+05:30, Zlatan Todoric <zlatan@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>On 7/26/18 11:32 PM, gregor herrmann wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:34:19 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> gregor
>>
>I hereby, second this. There is nothing for me to add or remove from
>this imho perfect statement by gregor.
>
>Z
Seems perfect to me too. Just wanted to state where I stand on the issue.
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