Interesting...

[siercia]

Here is a story that uses the controversial picture from the photo contest my company is hosting as a jumping off point for a discussion of male and female sexual socialization. It's an interesting article. It also has a link to the photo, which is odd, because I thought it was decided that the picture wouldn't be published. I still think I'm horrified that it's available. All I can imagine is being that woman, and happening across the photo in the course of a normal day (I mean, how many people read Salon?) and just being devastated by it.

"But the Mardi Gras molesters cannot be dismissed as perverted monsters. They look jovial, clueless, entitled. They are the guys next door, our sons, caught up in an extreme rendering of "boys will be boys." This is, 100% what bothered me the most about this picture; that these boys just looked like what was happening was no big deal, something they were absolutely entitled to see and do. That just makes me shudder. It makes me fear for having a daughter, and glad I don't have a son to raise.

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[scirocco.livejournal.com]

And now we see why Hannah's taking Martial Arts, and learning to appreciate knives.

[siercia]

Somehow I think that all the martial arts in the world could have helped her there. Not against 20 guys.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I've seen that photo on other sites, too. For over a month, I've run into that photo, and articles about it, in several places.

Suck.

[siercia]

Would you have published it?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

That's a tough call. On one hand, it totally exploits someone's very painful situation. On the other hand, it's incredibly telling.

The best photos, IMO, are disturbing.

[poopsmoothie.livejournal.com]

That picture makes me shake.

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[siercia]

I wanted to throw up the first time I saw it. It was bad enough that when it first made it onto the server, the woman in charge called us at 9:00 at night and asked us to shutdown the entire server until they could delete the picture in the morning. Then they needed it back in so they could decide whether or not to publish it. The whole thing was just icky.

One of the contest administrators acted like I was stupid when I said with absolute conviction that I would never publish it. Pissed me off.