[Glice]

Originally Posted by knox

it depends.
a face represents identity, there are so many things pictures can represent.
usually with sex workers, their faces are not that relevant, the idea that they have an identity outside their sexuality is not the point in that context.
Personally, I love seeing people's faces. I love to know they are real people.
That really hasn't got much to do with exposing yourself to be objectified sexually.
Now if men do that regardless of your intentions, that is another story.
I don't think it's right to expect women to AVOID doing things because of how they COULD be percieved by sexist eyes.
How many times will a woman be doing something as innocent and absent-minded as sitting down, arranging her hair and be accused of trying be seductive, therefore worthy of objectification? Should I be self concious at all times in order to prevent the "male gaze" from doing that? Or should men stop excusing themselves, acting like it was called for?

What woman doesn't like admiration? But one must know the difference between admiring and degrading. The healthy and unhealthy.

I guess what I am trying to say is that there is a tendency to separate sexuality from personality and individuality, and not enough material or behaviour out there accepts that those things are always together.

There is a huge difference between wanting to be sexy and wanting to be objectified.

If some women feel empowered by stripping in a context, I don't see a problem in that as long as people don't start assuming that´s what we all should feel. The greatest problem with feminism is that it tends to ignore women are individuals and feel differently about things.

now that it is degrading in two directions i agree. i sometimes wonder if prostitution is more degrading for the prostitute or the client.

I agree entirely with all of the above; I just really think that, in the context of the above, it's a bit rich to do the passive-aggressive act of saying (essentially) 'I think stripping is objectification but you go ahead' and plastering yourself all over the internet to the exclusion of actual linguistic communication.

I am in a foul mood though, so I wouldn't take anything I say to heart (that's as true for today as any other day, actually).

[Rob Instigator]

the saddest thing at a strip club is not the dancers, no matter how burned out they are, but the hordes of slack jawed, braindead zombies who sit there and rape the girls with their eyes, and waste all their extra money.

[Glice]

I think it's the little lonely mice underneath the stage, their slumber disturbed well into the little hours by humans doing things they just don't understand.

[jon boy]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

the saddest thing at a strip club is not the dancers, no matter how burned out they are, but the hordes of slack jawed, braindead zombies who sit there and rape the girls with their eyes, and waste all their extra money.

but posting endless pictures of girls asses on the internet is fine?

[Rob Instigator]

Sure! why not? and by "endless" you mean three or four pics every 6 weeks? I do not post hot lady ass as much as you would like I think.

[the big quasar]

Originally Posted by Glice

I think it's the little lonely mice underneath the stage, their slumber disturbed well into the little hours by humans doing things they just don't understand.

Excellent. This conjured flahes of "One Froggy Evening".

 

[Rob Instigator]

hello my baby
hello m,y honey
hello my ragtime gaaaaaaalll
send me a kiss by wire
baby my heart's on fireee

[the big quasar]

Fucking awesome.

[Conrad]

Originally Posted by Glice

This seems ridiculous from the person who put pictures of herself all over the internet, specifically this site. Which is to say that when you do that, you make yourself an object for 'the male gaze'. I would draw the line between someone posting an image on a messageboard so others can see what you look like and doing almost nothing but post pictures of yourself. Objectification doesn't stop just because the 'receiver' is absent, or obscure.

I've nothing to offer on the subject of strippers except that if it is degrading, it's degrading in two directions.

I post pictures of myself on a message board full of gay guys and women too, thank you very much. I'm also fully clothed in every single picture, never even posted one of me in a bathing suit.

As for my lack of posting in other threads, most of you just talk about music I hate so I really have nothing constructive to offer there. Being a Sonic Youth fan is a thing of the past for me, I just like the people here. I try to post a bit though, but to be honest since I don't come here too often anymore I don't know what you people are talking about half the time.

[jon boy]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Sure! why not? and by "endless" you mean three or four pics every 6 weeks? I do not post hot lady ass as much as you would like I think.

it just seems rather ironic and somewhat ridiculous that you find strip clubs so offensive when you have posted so many pictures of girls in the past. more than every six weeks or so and more than a couple of pictures.

of all the people on here you are known as the ass man.

[Conrad]

Originally Posted by Glice

I agree entirely with all of the above; I just really think that, in the context of the above, it's a bit rich to do the passive-aggressive act of saying (essentially) 'I think stripping is objectification but you go ahead' and plastering yourself all over the internet to the exclusion of actual linguistic communication.

I am in a foul mood though, so I wouldn't take anything I say to heart (that's as true for today as any other day, actually).

I don't care if that's passive aggressive, I'm not a damn preacher and I don't tell people what they should or shouldn't do.

And yeah, cause I only post pictures of myself

Never photography, or art, or comments on strippers.

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by jon boy

it just seems rather ironic and somewhat ridiculous that you find strip clubs so offensive when you have posted so many pictures of girls in the past. more than every six weeks or so and more than a couple of pictures.

of all the people on here you are known as the ass man.

I never said I found strip clubs offensive I find many of their clientele sad and pathetic.. the guys for whom it is not a night out unless they hit the strip joint. seems very sad to me.

[knox]

I honestly think the reason causing these accusations going back and forth is that we are, in general, to relutanct to admit that a certain amount of sexism is rooted in all of us.

I just think that's we need to fight against, not each other. In the process, many contradictions will surface, but as long as we're facing them...

[Glice]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I never said I found strip clubs offensive I find many of their clientele sad and pathetic.. the guys for whom it is not a night out unless they hit the strip joint. seems very sad to me.

Is it any sadder than posting the odd picture of a woman's arse once every 6 weeks? How is the calendar of the planet Mercury going for you, by the way?

Conrad: Alright, I'm being a prick; I don't really care, you carry on doing whatever. If anything I'd advocate to defend strippers or prostitutes or pornographers, mainly because I have friends/ family in those trades. Ultimately, I'd argue more that for me, personally, I'd really rather not have my pictures online, the point being that it's impossible to legislate for other people's comfort levels.

knox: I'm not holding hands in some fucking drum circle with a load of menstruating twats and listening to Ani diFranco. Not in this or any other life.

[Rob Instigator]

you really think it is equally sad to post a pic of a hot girl in the "post pics of hot girls" thread as it is to spend hundreeds of dollars a paycheck and hour upon hour of one's life sitting ina dim room with loud cock rock playing watching girls strip for a dollar at a time?

shiiiiiit.

internet ass for all!

[Conrad]

I know a stripper hound and it's definitely a lot more pathetic than Rob's posting of asses.

Originally Posted by Glice

Conrad: Alright, I'm being a prick; I don't really care, you carry on doing whatever. If anything I'd advocate to defend strippers or prostitutes or pornographers, mainly because I have friends/ family in those trades. Ultimately, I'd argue more that for me, personally, I'd really rather not have my pictures online, the point being that it's impossible to legislate for other people's comfort levels.

Whatever you say...

[knox]

I would never ask anyone to hold hands or listen to AniDiFranco, I´m a germophobe possibly an AnidiFrancophobe.

You don't like to post pictures online, fair enough, but most of us don't have a problem with that, I think you're being unfair on Emmah.

[wellcharge]

here are photos of me for everyone to objectify

 

 

 

 

[knox]

ill objetify your glorious cat.

[Rob Instigator]

does jessica biel ever post on here? does she like sonic youth?