<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
On 5/16/2011 9:04 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:BANLkTikxqJj+AM4wiS2z8w2ZkekYT7T1Lw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Chris McKenna <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:cmckenna@sucs.org">cmckenna@sucs.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt
0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);
padding-left: 1ex;">
Am I alaone in completely failing to understand what the fuss
is about?<br>
The image is not pornographic, exploitative, illegal or
otherwise<br>
inapropriate for featured picture status.<br>
</blockquote>
<div><br>
The image is also not artistically, historically, or
culturally significant, unlike all the other examples you
cited. The only reason it's featured is because it's sexually
arousing to anime fanboys who happen to dominate the culture
of Wikimedia Commons. I don't need to crawl into a semantic
rabbit-hole to defend this observation. I think its obvious to
any reasonable person. If the image would be embarrassing to
pull up in front of a classful of students, it shouldn't be on
the Commons Main Page.<br>
<br>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
As with a number of us - this is a big concern. While I had
originally posted this to the mailing list for gender gap
discussion, this is another of the reasons. <br>
<br>
Like I said, which I'm having a feeling wasn't even read by many -
you cannot pull THAT front page of Commons up in a classroom or
educational environment and have it celebrated by a middle school
teacher. Some of her kids might think it's "cool" or "hot", but, if
I'd be one pissed parent. All it takes is one pissed parent, who
overreacts, to report to the news that "my kid was shown porn at
school/museum/church/camp/after school workshops/whatever' and all
hell will break lose. <br>
<br>
#wikilove,<br>
<br>
Sarah<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch">Wikipedia
Regional Ambassador, D.C. Region<br>
Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art</a><br>
-- <br>
</font>
<div><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span
style="color: rgb(39, 153, 128);">Sarah Stierch Consulting</span></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span
style="color: rgb(39, 153, 128);">Historical, cultural &
artistic research, advising & event planning.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span
style="color: rgb(39, 153, 128);">------------------------------------------------------</span></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><a
style="color: rgb(39, 153, 128);"
href="http://www.sarahstierch.com/">http://www.sarahstierch.com/</a></font></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>