Nudity, Is It Sexist In This Forum?

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I'm absolutely glad to agree to disagree with you here. I don't agree that this topic is important when it comes to equal rights for women on this forum. If you think it is, I respect your right to feel that way. And I respect your decision to not post your exposed chest. I will not post mine too.

Well, I don't think of the women here as oppressed because of this. But simply waving the point away doesn't answer it, and while it's not high on my list of things which demand improvement here immediately, I'd rather see her point addressed reasonably. As you can tell from my earlier posts in this thread, it's not that I'm unsympathetic to the Staff's position.

But you're looking at this as if you know everything and you don't.

No, I'm not. Not at all. I'm offering my opinion.

You can think me childish if you want. I don't think you would like it if someone accused you of being involved in a conspiracy to close their thread, especially if said conspiracy involved posting child pornography.

I was perfectly happy in this thread being silly, maybe but not mean or rude (I don't think) until that accusation was made.

I get that, and I'm not defending or supporting that accusation at all. I can understand anger at being unfairly accused; it's a hot-button for me as well.

I'm not defending that at all. I can understand anger at being unfairly accused; it's a hot-button for me as well.For the record, I would never ever use any method to try to get a thread closed accept for the appropriate method for when a thread violates rules. More importantly, I would never ever instigate or condone the posting of child pornography on this board or elsewhere ever. If I'm being overly sensitive for finding that accusation to be incredibly offensive then so be it. But I take it very seriously, as I well should considering the criminal nature of child pornography.

I understand, and I apologize if I didn't make it clear that I don't agree with or associate myself with that charge. I don't, and won't. I post here at AF on the premise that the Staff are acting in good faith. Seeing some of the behavior in this thread is for me a bit disheartening, is all. I think her basic point is that satisfyng the law is understandable and necessary, but the resistance from staff on considering a higher standard than that seems a little odd to me. There's value to holding free-speech as the sine qua non of a freethinking forum. There's also value to considering how the forum's policies might well be furthering an attitude that no doubt we all -- except for a couple of chauvinists here -- find unpleasant.