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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]MADem
(135,425 posts)Just here, on this board. Sometimes, I get a sense that it's performance art, at the least. I'm being kind in that assessment.
This is a political discussion board, but people do talk about stuff that isn't political. And it is most certainly not a workcenter. I don't find the comparison that someone made elsewhere in this thread (that this place is like a job site) to be compelling at all.
I think, if someone constantly harped on about guns in the workplace, people might get a bit annoyed, too (and maybe call the cops)....or if they spent their entire workday exchanging cooking/baking or household hint tips the boss might not want to hand out paychecks--but we see THAT on this board too. Thus, I think comparing the board to a workplace isn't terribly operative. This place is closer to a bar, with a lot of booths. They're talking about gaming in that booth, an they're talking about Israel and Palestine in the next one over. At that big round table, there's a buncha people yammering about LBN. Over on the corner of the bar, a crew of folks are crabbing about something called GD. If ya don't like the conversation, pull up a chair at a different table. If someone is a total jerk and gets nasty, tell the bouncers.
Maybe the solution is to create yet another frigging group, called "Post Yer Pin Up Pics and Nasty-Ass Soft Porn Here, Not TOO Graphic, Mind You." There, everyone could post pictures of half naked objectified individuals of whatever gender without excoriation, and people who don't like it could just trash the group and never have to see that stuff. Of course, that probably wouldn't be as much fun, nor would it produce six or seven hundred post threads with thousands upon thousands of page hits--I'll bet that hyperbolic Upton thread and the copycats it spawned have paid a few bills for the admins--so that's a positive to all the drama, I suppose!
I guess Kate Upton's gravity free bosom has now joined the pit bull/Olive Garden/smoking/breast feeding club....it's tiresome stuff. It doesn't enhance the GD experience, IMO...! If it pays a few bills for the site owners, though, I guess it's not a total waste!