Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

[Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com>]

Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Others? You and I seem to have different ideas about what we want
>> children to find when they reach up on the family/school bookshelf.
>
> Please leave your children's upbringing out of our operating system.
> I'm not sure why you would have Debian's packages printed and on
> display in your bookshelf without scrutiny. As a parent, you know that
> it's your responsibility to limit their access to whatever your
> culture might find offensive, if you don't wish them to be exposed to
> that. On the school bookshelf I expect to find a good encyclopedia
> containing a lot more interesting images than what is available in the
> clip-art package, and if not, they can always turn to Wikipedia
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast comes to mind).
>
> Hopefully no one will have to determine if a package is "child-safe"
> before accepting it into Debian. That would be a big can of worms to
> open.

But we already do so. The fortunes package has the sexually-oriented
jokes and the atheism aphorisms split out into the fortunes-off package,
because it is (rightly IMO) considered that people might take offense at
getting these randomly.

There is nothing wrong with trying to reach a reasonable accommodation
with people to make them feel more comfortable. The only argument
against OP is simply that you feel that they are not asking for a
*reasonable* accommodation. That can be debated, but a dismissive tone
like above does not come over like you're interested in actually
debating it.

Mart

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