Seriously Jim? They don't show anything. There's barely any skin showing. No underwear, no nothing.

ok, say you're me. I'm in my office. I click a NON NSFW thread just as one of my macho buddies walk in. this loads: (click the arrow)
This is not safe for Jim.

Thanks for the cellar pro-tip jim, I didn't realize that.

My point still stands. In my experience, this would be akin to standing in the room, arms akimbo, silently glaring in the direction of the evidence of the offense in question (laundry, computer porn, dirty dishes, credit card receipt, that Hawaiian shirt, etc) . As opposed to just *saying*, plainly "That bothers me" perhaps accompanied by a helpful pointing gesture. Helpful cathartic gestures optional, of course.

That's a fair point. I think calling the pics 'creepy' was a bit mean though. I'd be really hurt if someone said a pic of me trying to look pretty was creepy.

Sorry I missed those posts. Some time, when I'm not at work, I'll move 'em.

This.

well, that's why I didn't say anything at the time, Dana. But for someone who demands tolerance, Ib is pretty goddamn intolerant.

Now, I find myself altering my posts to avoid gendered pronouns, for fucks sake. At what point does enough of the joy get sucked out of this place by all the worrying about who you're going to offend?

I get that. And I think you could have said something at the time. Just y'know...in a less hurtful way. I don't see anything wrong, myself, with telling Ibs to put stuff with a sexy pose in the nsfw thread, regardless of if there's anything on show, on the grounds that the world we all move in is not the same as the Cellar.

Jim, in the immortal words of Wm Shakespeare:

I don't get it. What's so wierd about a pretty girl, fully clothed, showing off her tie collection? It's a little different, but BFD. As I posted earlier, I don't give a flying shit if men (or women) want to post cocks or tits or what have you on the NSFW threads. I don't read those threads and up to now ignorance has been bliss.

But I come down strongly on Ibby's side concerning the first link she provided for grvdigr's posts in the NSFW Motivational thread. I came up in the days before the idea of equal rights for women had ever even been thought of. In high school, I had a chemistry teacher who firmly believed that women could not understand science, and he told us that the first day of class. He informed us that no woman, no matter how well she scored on exams and homework would never recieve an "A" from him. Conversely, a woman could never attend a single class, flunk every test and still receive a "C" because the poor thing lacked the capacity to understand anything much beyond home economics. The principle and other teachers knew about this man's prejudice, but nary a one stepped in to correct the situation.

I wanted to study climatology when I was going to school in the 70's. I was actually accepted into a prestigous graduate program in that field. I was the token woman in that department. Every other student was male. I was the target of any number of sexist comments made by the FACULTY, not my fellow grad students. I had been awarded a teaching assistent position which would have covered my tuition and given me a small stipend, as well.

That teaching asignment was what did me in. There were 8 of those awards in the department of climatology, but only one of them was in direct conflict with Climatology 500, a class REQUIRED of every climatology grad major. It was an incredibly difficult class that involved such advanced math that it made my old nemesis calculus seem like the multiplication tables. Guess who got that sole conflicting teaching assignment?

Now, the department may have had a perfectly valid reason for giving it to the sole woman, but if so, they never mentioned it to me. I was told I could "comp" the climatology class and take the final with everyone else. Right. I still can see that book in my mind's eye. It was a slender dark blue volume and it started right out with differential equations - something that I was introduced to briefly 4 years before and had never used again. Let me tell you, I cried over that text and how far I was falling behind my classmates who got to go to the lectures and ask the prof questions. Call me a wimp or a "woman with no head for science," but I was forced to quit that program. I regret it to this day.

I could go on, but I'm sure you get the general idea.

Grvdigger can post all the tits and ass he wants, but his other post was way out of line. His anti-women posts are about as amusing as the following from:

Racist Redneck Rebels - "Keep The Hate Alive!"

Buttons you can buy:

"Ain't RACIST Just Never Met a NIGGER I liked"

"Martin Luther Coon"

01. Droppin' The Kids Off In Harlem (2:36)
02. Niggers, Niggers, Niggers (2:21)
03. We Are All Niggers (4:01)
04. The Nigger Crematory (2:09)
05. Pederast Priests (3:47)
06. Marty The Maggot (2:56)
07. Jungle Bunny (3:27)
08. All Good Things Come From Africa (2:20)
09. Blow Up The Middle East (2:44)
10. Free Mumia (1:58)
11. Like A Nigger On Payday (2:32)
12. Nigger Snipers (3:19)
13. Oh My God, I Married A Nigger (2:43)
14. Reparations My Ass! (2:02)
15. Whatever Happened To That Dear Ol' Klan Of Mine? (2:30)
16. The Birds Are Singing (3:25)

If an African American saw shit like this posted here, would he be justified in getting upset? But a woman shouldn't get upset over similiarly demeaning junk? Why not? What's the difference?

Just my 2 cents:

I'm a 51 year old gay male. I freely admit that the 1st thing I think of when I meet someone else with male parts is "Would I fuck this guy?"
Don't know if that means I objectify or demean them or not.
I just know that I have a dick and as long as it works, I'll keep think with it when i damn well want to.

If you're gonna cite, which is more than Brianna did, cite correctly, instead of just trying to continue stirring shit up.

Both those posts you point out were posted AFTER the shit flew. And were/are clearly retaliatory posts. Anybody with a brain cell would see that.

Carry on.

Man.

You people are getting pretty goddamned free with the 'N' word lately. Racism must be coming into vogue. Again.

I don't suppose it's possible YOU are offending ppl with that shit, is it?

Dear SamIAm: If you can get over being offended for, oh, say, 3 seconds, please observe the post times of the posts in question and note them in relation to Brianna's.

Have a nice day!

there's an interesting rub.

Gilbert Gottfried on CNN today, talks about what happened after he was fired by Aflac for making tsunami jokes. Bold mine.