Anthere wrote:
So, are you saying that we should mask female
genitalia because the
world is generally offended by watching it, while we should display
male genitalia because the world is generally not offended by watching
it ?
Are you also gonna remove pictures of women who show their hair
because in most of the world women hide their hair ?
And how exactly do you measure the level of offensiveness of female
genitalia in the world compare to level of offensiveness of these
humiliation pictures in the prison article ?
Mind you, I think most of the world think these are VERY offensive, so
by your standards, they should be immediately put into a separate page.
For what it's worth, I think they should both be put on a separate page,
prominently linked, but not displayed inline.
I don't like the idea of us telling people that they are wrong to be
more offended by one than by the other though. Changing that, if you
believe it needs to be changed, is a debate for somewhere
else---Wikipedia shouldn't be a tool to promote particular ideologies
about media, apart from the very basic one that we support GFDL'd material.
I don't think most of the world has women hide their hair, though I
could be wrong. A sizable minority does though. I would not think we
should put pictures of women's hair in a particular language's Wikipedia
if a large majority of that language's speakers found it offensive (I
don't know if this is the case for any actual languages, so that's
hypothetical). Our goal should be to produce a free encyclopedia, not
to force people to look at images they find offensive simply because we,
as the moral arbiters of the world in a somewhat western-imperialist
fashion, have deemed that people who are offended by them are wrong and
should adopt our (much better, of course) political and ethical beliefs
instead.
-Mark