Quoting gregor herrmann (2018-07-27 05:32:20) > 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. Very well put! Thanks! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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