[Gendergap] Hardcore images essay - HELP!

[Fred Bauder]

> On Tuesday, February 15, 2011, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
>> There are some excruciatingly naive arguments being made on the essay's
>> talk page, e.g.:
>
> Is this the sort of thing that would benefit from public pillory? For
> example, a posting on Geek Feminism blog or elsewhere? On one hand, I
> think such attitudes merit public critique, on the other, I wouldn't want
> such efforts to backfire and make Wikipedia even less appealing to
> possible contributors, particularly if this is just a rat hole.
>

A ham-handed approach is sure to set us back. Some quite "nasty" images
are very informative; most images with sexual content are kind of like
window-dressing, prosaic and repetitive. There are good arguments for
including some explicit images, but not for endless cruft.

The "no-censorship" crowd will predictably take the position that any
restrictions will involve removal of illustrations of explicit, but
significant information.

Fred