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In reply to the discussion: It is not about the swimsuit issue it is about basic respect for women [View all]rrneck
(17,671 posts)Part of the problem with this whole "pictures on DU" controversy is the inflated penumbra of outrage that stretches to the limits of perception. With that kind of outrage there will always be somebody somewhere on the internet willing to pull your chain. People are too eager to be outraged for it's own sake.
It's like this. The dynamic in the current objectification battle is that the Bloods don't want to see certain types of images on DU at all, and the Crips respond by finding boatloads of images, articles etc. that fit the TOS and the SOP. The more pissed off the Bloods get, the higher they raise the bar on acceptable images, and the Crips use the Google machine to gin up more stuff to piss them off.
It turns GD into the back seat of a minivan on vacation, but there it is.
So being annoyed about what somebody said months ago is really no different from being annoyed about bare bottoms in GD.