On 6/8/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/7/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway(a)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.