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In reply to the discussion: Sports Illustrated cover - practically porn? [View all]F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)296. This. This right here is objectification at it's worst.
Last edited Fri Feb 6, 2015, 07:12 AM - Edit history (1)
Look at what you just said:
If I want to get off on pics of women I look at porn
You see somen as things there for your sexual pleasure. And that's pretty fucked up. Also, you ever wonder how it might make the women on this board feel?
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Ok, how's this? If I am embarrassed for my teen to see most of her hairless vagina
adigal
Feb 2015
#116
Pet peeve of mine. The outer part is the labia. The vagina is the passageway between the
uppityperson
Feb 2015
#123
Yes, sorry, labeled her labia and mons pubis wrong. I was going to look it up but had no time
adigal
Feb 2015
#125
If this is embarrassing to you, how can you watch teevee, go to the beach,or go to a movie with him?
pipoman
Feb 2015
#338
If someone wrote "I find pictures of old women gross," that person would be attacked.
Orrex
Feb 2015
#507
No, not what I said at all. I said that stores want those products visible for a reason.
alp227
Feb 2015
#559
OK, if "shoving in your face" is too rough, how about something more complex and specific.
alp227
Feb 2015
#561
Gross? Wow...I would get in trouble if I posted pics here of what I think is gross
NoJusticeNoPeace
Feb 2015
#626
i believe "he" is a "she". as are most of the posters saying it's porn. whereas their opposition
ND-Dem
Feb 2015
#303
Adrahil, I share many of your misgivings about social hierarchy and sexual objectification, but...
Threedifferentones
Feb 2015
#376
I imagine it's some sort of affectation, like wearing a fez or calling everyone "mac"
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#432
So if someone finds me attractive on the basis of my physical appearance, that means
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#191
Ok, let's pretend you are right...then what is the purpose of the cover if not sexual
adigal
Feb 2015
#541
Yes, objecting to the commodification is being intertwined with objecting to the body or sex
adigal
Feb 2015
#549
So you're picturing her with hair and you think others have a problem with objectifying women?
TransitJohn
Feb 2015
#477
Of course....because her bio says she COULD HAVE gone to college, she's brilliant! Rhodes Scholar
adigal
Feb 2015
#262
Are they going to say she's stupid?? And I have green eyes, most people love them, thanks!! Nt
adigal
Feb 2015
#389
Wow!!! Seven of them!! And do you seriously think Princeton didn't take Brooke Shields because she
adigal
Feb 2015
#450
She probably was an athlete, she looks like one...my point is that any dinky little high school
adigal
Feb 2015
#451
And Bill Frist thought he could see active intelligence and responses from a picture
mythology
Feb 2015
#534
pretty girl, fake boobs, shaved pubes, swimsuit pulled down. not selling swimsuits.
ND-Dem
Feb 2015
#307
And yet, one annual magazie issue somehow = ALL media, ALL of society's expecations for ALL women
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#606
No, I dont believe a woman in a bathing suit on a magazine cover equates in any fucking way, shape,
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#288
If you dont hate the SI swimsuit issue, you support stuff like lynching.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#290
Oh, they're RAMPED up for this year. Ready. Damn issue isn't even out yet.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#421
No, actually, you've got it backwards. And someone needs to break the news to her
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#568
LOL, I couldn't have added anything more to that thread if I'd tried, still makes me laugh.
polly7
Feb 2015
#533
Of course there is one rule for concealed female genitalia and another for stone penises.
Nye Bevan
Feb 2015
#214
If your daughter sold the photos she took (or paid the models) would that make it porn?
onenote
Feb 2015
#117
Outrage! Outrage I tell you! I am outraged that people would be outraged by this outrage!
Rex
Feb 2015
#48
You know, it may not be a priority to you, or even perhaps a particularly pressing issue
F4lconF16
Feb 2015
#86
Yep, and then there are those of us who think hand-wringing over sex and depictions of nudity or
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#199
even better, I'm entitled to think "insidious and systematic objectification" is just what happens
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#256
"It's interesting that the far right and the far left have such similar views about sexual topics."
prayin4rain
Feb 2015
#267
I'm unaware of any studies applying the scientific method conducted by MacKinnon n/t
prayin4rain
Feb 2015
#537
Thank heavens we have people to determine for us what constitutes "healthy sexual attraction".
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#510
Well if Dr. Perrin Elisha, Aspen Psychiatrist and Therapist says it's true, it MUST be!
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#514
One can find women in bathing suits attractive and oppose the commodification of such.
alp227
Feb 2015
#516
So if the same woman is on the beach in the same suit, it's okay to find her attractive.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#517
You know what you should do? You should go to admin and demand that I be taken off of the
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#614
Your definition of "healthy sexuality" is not objective, or science-based, it's a completely
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#609
You know....you need to visit some of the NJ nude beaches. It might do you good. nt
msanthrope
Feb 2015
#395
Your son has found a way to avoid the dead end exploitation of his physical beauty
fasttense
Feb 2015
#550
Battling the evil hordes on our sister site. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
The Straight Story
Feb 2015
#228
Mons pubs is showing and another mm her labias would be showing. Happy now?? Nt
adigal
Feb 2015
#141
No. Not porn. Typical beachwear most places, in many places women wear far less
riderinthestorm
Feb 2015
#124
Yes I get that for the purposes of this discussion SI is not Porn at all
ChosenUnWisely
Feb 2015
#273
Threads like this are interesting it shows who is liberal and progressive and who is an uptight
ChosenUnWisely
Feb 2015
#278
I will just lurk when it comes out why argue over something silly and pointless
ChosenUnWisely
Feb 2015
#280
As far as I know it is. I wonder if memebrs of congress still get their free
ChosenUnWisely
Feb 2015
#283
So Meta was like dropping a hand grenade in a room full of people! My kinda place!
ChosenUnWisely
Feb 2015
#526
Outside of Kiddie Porn, Real Porn requires penetration otherwise it is art!
ChosenUnWisely
Feb 2015
#341
Sorry Charlie, BDSM is art to many, and one could also make a good argument that bukkake is art
ChosenUnWisely
Feb 2015
#345
Some could call it performance art, who am I to judge what is good or bad art
ChosenUnWisely
Feb 2015
#351
Unless you get out between 2 am and 6 am I doubt we ran into each other.
ChosenUnWisely
Feb 2015
#368
So I am f-ed up why do you care? You don't know me, I don't know you. So feel good about
ChosenUnWisely
Feb 2015
#358
Not porn but she shaves right to the edge of the naughty bits so we got that question answered.
Monk06
Feb 2015
#136
Next week is the 50 Shades of Grey Suckfest Movie Opening. It's best to get this done early. nt
msanthrope
Feb 2015
#399
And as usual, we get a thread hundreds of posts long over a magazine cover...
nomorenomore08
Feb 2015
#151
I wanted to make it so the nun is actually coming out of her bathing suit
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#203
Right? It's a ridiculous picture, no purpose except to push the envelope as far as they can
adigal
Feb 2015
#266
The entire purpose of the photo is to be sexually enticing. Isn't that the definition of porn?
DebJ
Feb 2015
#231
Thanks, HappyMe. I'm all prepared now for this years attempt to break the trainwreck record....
Violet_Crumble
Feb 2015
#324
Absurd...a pilot being burned alive doesn't keep people from having other concerns
adigal
Feb 2015
#374
Don't worry mom...your teenage sons have actual porn for their sexual pleasure...
pipoman
Feb 2015
#339
Can you imagine?? They put a size 16 woman into one of their editions this year
adigal
Feb 2015
#373
i know I did. I think it's funny that you're bemoaning the bad-mouthing of SI swimsuit models
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#455
Oh, another faux-clever response. How cute. But this is a serious issue, and many women are
adigal
Feb 2015
#459
You're trying to change the subject. You were complaining about people bad-mouthing the models.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#465
Right, last year some people were goin' on all day long about how no one can look like the 3
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#439
No images of the prophet muhammad or of women in bikinis seems to be a theme with some folks
The Straight Story
Feb 2015
#462
Do you suppose that men appear on a lot of magazine covers without makeup and photoshopping?
Orrex
Feb 2015
#488
"It's porn!" "No it isn't!" Yawn. Grow up. Don't look at it if you don't like it.
yellowcanine
Feb 2015
#391
So you are assuming they don't??? So if a girl is affected by media images, that means her mother
adigal
Feb 2015
#493
Are you seriously posting a Daily Mail article that describes a woman as the property of Derek Jeter
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2015
#411
Does the picture arouse you? If not then it is not porn, if so then yes it is porn.
Rex
Feb 2015
#440
Sweet! It's totally time for another round of good old fashioned DU prudery!
TransitJohn
Feb 2015
#475
Finding women in bikinis attractive is apparently "unhealthy sexuality"
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#519
I would hold open the door for someone buying the spiderwoman comic
The Straight Story
Feb 2015
#524
Lol. The moral outrage here definitely compares well to the religious right at times.
Calista241
Feb 2015
#548
Not my type. Too skinny and boney. It's not porn to me 'cause she looks just silly.
BlueJazz
Feb 2015
#572
What they really want is to tell EVERYONE what they should or shouldn't do...
NaturalHigh
Feb 2015
#630
People who are offended by and made uncomfortable by the human body or the act of sex
NoJusticeNoPeace
Feb 2015
#627