Why Is This Photo Deeply Offensive?

[Warren DeMontague]

160. ... in the other post (#88) I said "fairly certain".

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Like I said, I do remember it. But I'm not invested enough to try and track down the 40 or so threads that stupid fight spawned to prove my point. I fully concede I could be wrong, although I am 100% certain there was some over-the-top hyperbole along those lines thrown out during those fun (cough) times. What the exact wording was, I don't know, and to hunt it via google that's probably what you'd need. Search function on DU would be even worse.

As for the bodies... hell, it's pretty obvious there was probably some photoshop involved; probably more than in the above banana sling picture, although it's also possible photo manipulation has advanced significantly in the intervening years. Still, I remember DU arguing more about butts than anything else. I can't find all the threads, but I can still find the cover itself, and given the layout of the thing, that makes sense.

Now, I do remember going to college with some extremely attractive young ladies, and I think some of the discussion (again, as I remember it) around the SI issue women was "it is physically impossible to have a body like that"- and I suppose one could say the same thing about Cap'm Banana up there...

still, I swear I remember some VERY attractive and fit bodies, from back in those days.

But, then, I also acknowledge that my memory may be questionable.