[LAU] Fuck your sexism

[Dan MacDonald]

Great work L!

I got a great laugh out of your response - I'm still laughing now!

:D

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Louis Gorenfeld
<louis.gorenfeld at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://www.extentofthejam.com/PoliteGrind.mp3
>
> Lyrics:
> "Sure, the image was a little bit sexist. But I think you're
> overreacting a little. Why can't we all get along? GRRAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
>
> -Louis
>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Bill Gribble <grib at billgribble.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>I'm afraid I'm missing the required cultural reference. What is it
> >>exactly that you found offensive?
> >
> > I think that a large number of people find it offensive to use
> sexualized images of women in the context of activity such as music
> creation or recording that has nothing to do with sex, and in particular
> nothing to do with male sexual fantasy, which is what Lolita images
> represent.
> >
> > At best, it is insensitive to women users of the software who didn't ask
> to see some fantasy images of young girls portrayed as objects of sexual
> desire.
> >
> > At worst, it can appear to be an aggressive attempt to push away women
> as users by intimidation, in the same way that men have used pinup images
> of women in workplaces to keep real women out, or "in their place", or
> always conscious of their outsider status.  This is particularly a problem
> in the technology and free software worlds, so we should be extra-sensitive
> to it.
> >
> > I understand that falktx is pulling in the image in question from a
> source (Vocaloids)  that is relevant to computer audio production; it's a
> bit like a glamour shot of a "real" music celebrity, but even more relevant
> to an audio software distribution.  It's not a bad choice on all levels.  I
> doubt he thought the image would be offensive.  That doesn't change the
> fact that it IS offensive to at least some people, and that "best
> practices" of sexism avoidance would guide one to leave this image out.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill Gribnle
> >
> >
> >
> >
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