Rebecca said:
On 4/17/05, Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
Exactly. There's nothing wrong with tweaking a few tweakable noses, especially those who raise purely personal objections, based on local cultural sensitivities, to aspects of an encyclopedic project. Such pressure is a naked and (because we're nice people and don't like to offend, largely successful) attempt to distort the encyclopedia on non-encyclopedic grounds. We can give a little but only where it doesn't matter much.
Oh, come off it. The examples we're talking about aren't based on entirely personal objections or local cultural sensitivities.
The Titanic picture is an excellent example of one to which some people have expressed entirely personal objections. It is not a shockingly violent image, or even an overtly sexualized one, just a woman in a classic nude pose, the kind of thing you'd expect to see in the window of your local art gallery.