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In reply to the discussion: Are there women here who are not offended by the SI cover or Kate Upton's spread? [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)That provides the legal basis for prohibitions against a hostile environment? If so, those images don't belong on DU. It's one thing for people to have them in their home and another to use them in public spaces. If you think Civil Rights law doesn't matter or that DU should be exempt from promoting a welcoming climate for diversity, that is of course your choice.
Also note those were posted with the expressed purpose of offending and provoking feminists. Skinner locked the Kate Upton thread and told the GD hosts similar threads were not acceptable in GD. It is a means of marking territory to show women who don't tow the line that they aren't welcome here. That is the intent of creating a hostile environment, which is why it is illegal in any public agency, non-profit, or place of employment that follows the law.
I have never worked at a place or visited a public building or Dem party function where such pictures were displayed. For decades it has been clear such things are not acceptable because they are hostile to women, as defined by law. That this comes as news to some people around here makes me wonder where they have been the last few decades.