At 04:30 PM 8/29/2005, lea murphy wrote:
As a woman who has had to, on occassion, make a deposit of one form
or another in the great outdoors sans a toilet let me assure you
that this in NOT EVEN CLOSE to the position we assume when such duty
is to be done...
Here's the problem.
1) Some men think it looks like a woman taking care of business.
2) Some women say that it's not a position that a woman would use
when taking care of business.
So what's the problem? The problem is that photography is about
*perception.* It doesn't really matter, unless it was captioned
"Woman Taking Care of Business", what it is or isn't, this is what
some men see in the photo. The fact that it might be uncomfortable,
physically difficult, or even impossible isn't really relevant. It's
a *photograph*, not a scientific fact. This is true of all
photographs, at least until they are (truthfully) captioned.
Jeff Spirer
Photos: http://www.spirer.com
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