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That Twitter page is NSFW. Although the username should have warned me.
by smegel 9y ago
That Twitter page is NSFW. Although the username should have warned me.
- ygaf 9y agoWhy is a warning downvoted?
- exodust 9y agoBecause there's nothing unsafe about it.
- YeGoblynQueenne 9y agoI didn't downvote but the page is perfectly SFW. There's skin on display but no more than in, say, a one-piece swimsuit ad (on average- there's four or five pictures). There's no inappropriate body parts on display. I'd feel safe to show this to my boss, though my boss's mother would probably disaprove.
- sn9 9y agoReally? I wouldn't dream of showing that page to my boss or coworkers. Honestly, doing so could plausibly and understandably make many women and some men uncomfortable.
- viraptor 9y agoI agree these may be uncomfortable for some. But they're definitely SFW. I'm ok with some things being uncomfortable. We got past the idea that women can wear trousers to work. We can get past this as well. Some progress can be uncomfortable.
- ryandrake 9y agoIt’s almost as if... there isn’t a single universal definition of NSFW and different workplaces have different expectations! I know—-crazy, right?
- flukus 9y agoCould you put up a calendar of similar pictures at your work desk? If not, like most of us then it's not SFW.
- exodust 9y agoPoor analogy. A calendar is obviously your choice of decoration that your colleagues will see every day. The calendar's content is on you. Visiting a Twitter page for a few seconds in your browser and the background happens to show the woman in a bikini, is absolutely not the same as your choice of calendar. There is no nudity anyway, it's 100% legal and we see similar images in the street, shop windows, billboards, TV, everywhere.
- ploxiln 9y agoThere is a funny kind of contradiction going on here. On the one hand, men in the tech community have been told it's never OK to use/share/endorse images of attractive women with "lots of skin", in any work or tech-community context, because it objectifies women, makes them uncomfortable, and pushes them away from the tech industry. On the other hand, men should respect how women present themselves, and welcome them into the tech community. Still, this doesn't save you if a moral busybody walks behind you when you're looking at this twitter profile - it's very conceivable that a guy could get in trouble or ostracized for "ogling scantily-clad women". Hell, surely you remember the two guys at pycon 4 years ago, some woman behind them heard one tell a (rather tame) "dongle" joke to the other, generated outrage on twitter, got them fired, etc. In this modern era where moral outrage is more in fashion than ever (in recent memory anyway), the only winning move is not to play.
- Mz 9y agoI am a woman. I think she ought to tone it down a bit. I blogged about that. Edit: ironically this comment was being ignored as long as I had the disclaimer in it that I am routinely accused of victim blaming for trying to empower women. I removed it because I also get constantly accused of making things about me. The second it was removed, a personal attack in violation of the guidelines was posted as a reply and now my comment has been downvoted. Here is the blogpost in question in case anyone wants to read it instead of knee-jerk assuming I am just some sexually uptight prude: http://michelerebooted.blogspot.com/2017/11/how-i-try-to-direct-attention-as-woman.html http://michelerebooted.blogspot.com/2017/11/how-i-try-to-dir...
- awesomepantsm 9y agoThat's nice, why should I care what you think about how some random person in the 7 billion people in the world should dress.
- Mz 9y agoThat's nice. What makes you think I care to hear about your open contempt and dismissiveness of my opinion?