Nudity, Is It Sexist In This Forum?

[SteelCurtain]

I get that. I am responding, however, to the continual rebuttals here inside this thread (not the moderator's thread) which address only the legal dimension (understandable as it is) but ignore the larger point. I find it frustrating that people for whom I hold such high opinions wave the law around even as that point of contention has already been addressed.

If the Staff don't wish to make it an equal point, in order to represent a higher understanding than that provided by the law, great. But her point is that that also says something, and you cannot then say "I'm for equality" as you retreat into the trenches of a law which is inherently unequal. By standing pat on what the law says, and not working to go past it, what is the message the Staff is delivering?

If you're fine with the way the law reads and feel no need to be better than it, great. But own it -- own that buy-in that you're wielding in your own defense. If you want to be better than the law, you can be.

I'm thinking that is the point of this thread, to make us think about what we take for granted. It's making me rethink my positions on gender issues, and that isn't a bad thing. I was joking about not posting my own nips -- it's more a matter of not scarring the eyes of these youngsters with some old guy's flat tits -- but seriously, what sacrifice is being requested?

I really don't get the line-drawing and digging-in that's going on, outside of the context of emotions being bruised ... and that's not really a good way to moderate a forum, is it?

Esquilax's point is well put, though. Like I said, we all disagree with the lines that the law has drawn. We don't think that the proper reaction would be to take a sexist law farther. We don't agree that expressing that solidarity actually accomplishes anything at all. It is not going to make the situation better for anyone.

As for the line drawing---that is coming from a reaction (however biased) to the origin story of this issue. It came as a reaction to the issue at TTA, and the immediate levying of the charge of sexism on part of the staff here combined with the later accusation of orchestrating a child nudity post in order to shut down the conversation here---that, for better or worse, colored our reception and lines were subsequently drawn.