On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:34:19 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > 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 -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: REM: Texarkana
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