Hello,
I wrote to a company which does male fashion and I might write to more, asking them to donate media.
Fashion is controversial but as an industry it has driven world history. Part of fashion is sexuality and Wikipedia is harmed by suppressing sexuality and the world is harmed when Wikipedia does this. Fashion is both what is marketed and how people present themselves in any context.
Two Wikipedians, Dorothy Howard (user:OR drohowa) and Jason Moore (user:Another Believer) are coordinating a Wiki Loves Pride event to commemorate June as LGBT Pride month. Especially if we could present other photos equally objectifying and celebrating a range of genders and body types then this kind of picture presentation could become a more positive experience among a general call for appreciation of sensual beauty in all its forms, rather than just pop-media marketing ideas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride_2014
The Wikimedia Commons challenge will also be LGBT-themed for June https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photo_challenge so perhaps people can upload sexiness and fun from various gay pride events around the world in June. Flickr in particular has and will continue to have lots of LGBT pride pictures from around the world. See also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_events_by_year
I would love to see this controversy turn into a discussion about acceptance of all kinds of people and praise for healthy expression of sexuality.
yours,
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:57 AM, LtPowers LtPowers_Wiki@rochester.rr.comwrote:
So where is the dude cheesecake? :)
We don't appear to have any that has reached Featured Picture status yet.
I'm kind of torn on this one. I don't think we should be making value judgments on whether or not a particular FP is "worthy" of being featured on the Main Page or not; if it's good enough to be FP, it should be good enough to be POTD. But the opponents are right that this would turn off a lot of editors and potentially cause a firestorm. That makes this seem like a case of maintaining our ideals versus being practical about the impact, but maybe that's oversimplifying?
Powers &8^]
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