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In reply to the discussion: Because the 'Swimsuit Issue' is not an original concept… [View all]Orrex
(63,172 posts)It's not porn. It's not graphic nudity. It's not violent. It hasn't been demonstrated to be hostile to women.
All that we know for sure is that a certain small (and entirely predictable) subset of DU's women has found it objectionable enough to make accusations of homoerotic pedophilia, uncontrollable masturbation, and weird-o confection-based cannibalism. Honestly, if I can piss off a crowd that voices such preposterous objections, you can bet that I'll go out of my way to do it.
You're asking the entire assembled membership of DU to preemptively self-police just in case some critical mass of critical women might be miffed. There are web forums that offer these sorts of constraints on subject matter. Heck, there are at least five groups on DU that offer a specific safe haven for women. What you're asking is that DU be sanitized to such a degree that no woman will ever have to risk seeing an image or reading a word that might upset them.
Do you honestly think that women are that delicate? My wife would kick my ass if I ever accused her of being so fragile!