• Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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    The image has attracted controversy in recent years because of its subject matter, and many journals have deemed it inappropriate and discouraged its use, while others have banned it from publication outright.

    Brother, it’s a cropped image. Who the fuck cares where it’s from? What are we upset about here, a bare naked shoulder? That’s some Victorian era level puritanism.

    • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The context of a bare naked shoulder is important. If you walked into a male CEOs office and he had a picture on his disk of his wife and his kids in swimsuits at the beach, you would probably feel differently about it than if he had a pin-up poster of a supermodel in a bikini on his wall.

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        I don’t know that I think that’s a 1-to-1 comparison. If you looked at this picture with no foreknowledge of where it was from or what it was like uncropped you’d think it’s a perfectly innocent headshot of a woman. It’s not like strapless tops or dresses don’t exist, and the hat suggests she’s clothed so there is no reason for the mind to jump to the idea that she’s naked unless you already know it’s from Playboy.

        But I don’t know, I might just not get it. I had no idea the shoulder was such a big deal so it might just be me there’s something wrong with. I feel like I missed a memo. Which does happen a lot, to be honest.

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      that was my initial reaction until reading the article. some perspective that kind of helped was that the backlash to it was in the 90’s. porn existed in more places than just in magazines but it was still rare. to have it appear on the front line of a technology research field was just jarring to institutions at the time. we kind of take for granted how casually today we can just reference things in professional settings.

      but puritanism can always come back