On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:26:34PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote: > to women in music about how they are treated, and the ways in which > they are sexualized and stereotyped by club owners, other musicians, "sexualized"? I'm intrigued, first time I've seen that word. > music store employees (a whole topic of its own!), even fans. It is > ugly. So it's not just the details of this one image, which is itself > rather tamer than a Victoria's Secret billboard. Not sure I've seen a "Victoria's Secret billboard" but if it's selling womans lingerie, then of course in context it should be OK. Imagine if the default wallpaper was Justin Bieber in a weird sexist pose, (In our eyes.) but girls croon and salivate all over it. I don't know about you but I'd be thinking WTF, and deleting it from my HDD. >This is a deep and > serious subject! Best just to avoid the argument by not bringing > sexualized images in unless you are purposefully making something I think you mean sexist, instead of "sexualized" -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
