How can we ever know if the majority of the world finds something offensive? All we ever get to hear about are the vocal minority. I think it's pretty easy to make a pronouncement on body parts, saying that male and female parts should be treated in the same way on wikipedia. If you are worried about it we could just take a vote. All those in favor of treating the penis and clit photos the same say eye.
Theresa
-----Original Message----- From: Delirium [mailto:delirium@hackish.org] Sent: 12 May 2004 11:58 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: troubled.
Anthere wrote:
I expect that female genitals have the same right of display than male
genitals.
Either hidden, or visible.
But that equal standards are respected between women and men.
I personally agree they're approximately equal, and think both should be
a link. But I don't see how we can make that pronouncement. If the majority of the world happens to be more offended by one than the other (which seems to be the case), we're not really moral arbiters that are here to say they're wrong. Principles such as "the offensiveness of female and male genitalia should be equal" might make for an interesting
discussion for a philosophy of media class, or a journal of feminist theory, but I don't think we should really be in the business of putting
forth new standards for what people should find offensive and what they shouldn't find offensive. If it's easy to keep them consistent then fine, but if people find one much more offensive than the other, then that's a matter to debate using some other tool than Wikipedia.
-Mark
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