Nudity, Is It Sexist In This Forum?

[Thumpalumpacus]

I just addressed it. I literally just did. I and others have several times.

No, you didn't.

Are you saying you're making a point that is not about banning male nips and I am missing it?

Yes. The point, really, is not about male nipples at all any more.

Because I wasn't talking about the law. I was talking about how if we ban male nips for equality what we are doing is saying we want equal discrimination. We are forced by law to discriminate against women. So therefore we should discriminate against men too. That way everyone is equally mistreated? It makes no sense.

Back in 1993 - 94, after I got out of the service, I beat the Central Coast of California looking for a job as a firefighter. It just so happened that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had issued a ruling stating that hiring pools for public positions should generally reflect the ethnic proportions of the community at large -- in other words, you couldn't ignore black ot Hispanic applicants in a city with sizeable percentages of those ethnicities.

I lost out on a couple of opportunities because of that decision. It bothered me at the time, but later, after thinking about it, I understood that someone had to break the status quo, and someone had to be jilted.

Me, not posting my nips here is not going to give me heartburn. It ain't a line I'm going to fight on. If the staff want to defend that line -- the right of men to post nips must be preserved -- hey, have at it.

I am discussing your and heatheness' point unless there's a point being made that I'm missing?

Well, the point being made is that the rules can be, and should be, better than a law that every Staff member hertofore has acknowleded is sexist, in this thread. Defending the rule on the basis of the law, while at the same time acknowledging that the law being used as a defense is sexist, strikes me as more than a little short-sighted.