On 6/8/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/7/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
We've advanced from there, fortunately, so now we have a a discussion over whether the sexually titillating representative of prepubescent sexual victimhood is to be a free image with her legs akimbo or a non-free one with a phallic object stuck in her mouth.
If we are to make the (probably unwarranted) assumption that these are the only two choices, the free image should win based on licensing status alone. Of course the best solution would be to find or create a free image that everyone can agree on, but I don't see that happening.
Well those were the two choices on offer. The free image raised eyebrows, not because of its sexual suggestiveness, but because it was an image of wikipe-tan, who is apparently regarded as a kind of Wikipedia mascot.
I've proposed alternatives that were less in-your-face (and were also free) but they were rejected. In particular, a bookstore montage which show, with range and perspective that lends distance, books for sale that included those with covers depicting busty teenaged schoolgirls--certainly lolicon but not so dodgy as flat-chested little girls with huge phalluses stuck in their mouths.