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It's alluding to menstrual bleeding. A delicious food looking like period blood I think can fairly be described as "poor taste".
by lucasmullens 7y ago
It's alluding to menstrual bleeding. A delicious food looking like period blood I think can fairly be described as "poor taste".
- novia 7y agoCan we get over the menstruation stigma already? The article is about menstruation tracking apps. You guys shouldn't be shocked by imagery alluding to menstruation in such a context.
- chooseaname 7y agoI iMessaged the link to the article to my SO. She said the image was in poor taste and deleted the message. So, there's that.
- egdod 7y agoI'm over the stigma. But it's still a private bodily function, and I still think it's in poor taste. It adds nothing to the article--it's just there for shock value/entertainment. Imagine if this were an article about... I dunno, an app that finds cheap toilet paper near your zip code. Would it be laudable if it included a picture of a smeary piece of melted chocolate?
- lacampbell 7y agoCan we get over the menstruation stigma already? I don't want to see images alluding to pissing or shitting. Do I have a piss and shit stigma?
- fortran77 7y agoApparently to women, and "white knights," yes.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> It's alluding to menstrual bleeding. A delicious food looking like period blood I think can fairly be described as "poor taste". There's is a difference between highly stylized allusion that relies heavily on contextual priming and “looking like”. That being said, the picture adds no value. On the third hand, though, the “large image which makes a highly stylized allusion to some aspect of the subject matter and provides no value” has been a trend in online articles for, what a decade or so now so it is neither surprising nor noteworthy that this one also has one.