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What is going on with the pictures of girls in this linuxreviews.org website ?

toyg 6y ago
I think they are pictures of Wei Lin herself. I'd never seen this site before, not sure why it's suddenly making HN front page for rehashing a story from April.
- tomcam 6y ago
  who is Wei Lin herself? It’s a common name.
  - cma 6y ago
    Author of the article (assuming he spelled it wrong)
- EdwardDiego 6y ago
  Wai Lin (the biography and pictures) is a character from a Bond film - played by Michelle Yeoh, whose cover story was as a reporter for New China News Agency.
  - toyg 6y ago
    Are you saying the whole thing is pseudonymous trollbait? Talk about the dangers of a “good” domain name...
- ratww 6y ago
  The avatar is cropped from this image of the K-Pop band AOA: https://imgur.com/r/AceOfAngels8/0n1LG https://imgur.com/r/AceOfAngels8/0n1LG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOA_(group) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOA_(group)
Lammy 6y ago
I always dread these purity-spiral final stages when it suddenly becomes sexist to normalize having women in things.
- jchw 6y ago
  While I despise purity spirals, moral panics, and moral grandstanding with a great passion, I don't think that's what's going on here. It is at least mildly quaint. In this case it looks like the folks behind the website are into K-pop, and one of the very strange behaviors of K-pop fans is to post images and videos of their favorite kpop bands ... well, everywhere, often in violation of site ToSes. I'd honestly love to know more about why, because it gets mildly aggravating even if the images/videos themselves are very inoffensive. Since this is their own website, I can't really be frustrated at all honestly. Still seems a little quaint, but I guess that's how a lot of 'ordinary' folks view those of us into Japanese otaku culture as well. Shrug.
  - Lammy 6y ago
    Sorry, not my intention to imply they may be inciting a moral panic or grandstanding. The original poster (sorry to pick on you! you're fine!) didn't ask what's with all the K-pop stars on the page; they asked what's with all the women. This comment is already longer than theirs and it just read to me like somebody who generally wants to do the best thing for the most people and would appreciate some help with whether or not a particular thing is "okay" or "offensive". I feel that our natural (not always universal) human desire for inclusivity too often gets entangled with inhuman[1] entities (i.e. an online advertising marketplace) that can speak the language of our emotion but only to get us to click the correct buttons and delete the correct knowledge to make the numbers go up like we programmed it to. I'm just weary of watching "sexist, or not sexist?" get asked about something until every shred of femininity has been deemed unacceptable and removed. Maybe just removing some photos[0] of women from our web pages. Maybe another group of work teammates stop inviting me to lunch or out on smoke breaks with them for fear of saying something offensive, losing their job, and seeing their name/address/SSN/rootpw dragged across Twitter during the Two Minutes Hate. Keep asking and it might eventually become Less Sexist to motion-capturing a real-life woman's face but then alter[@] her to not be so indecently-attractive for a major video game. Hopefully there's a farrier somewhere in this city who can explain this stuff to me. The potential consequences for deemed-offensive speech are severe enough that risk avoidance becomes the only rational choice. All I can do is share how much and how many times this pattern has hurt me personally, hope enough other people feel similarly, and hope talking about it at all might help people feel more empowered and safe enough to make decisions about these topics and not have to defer to the inevitable lowest common denominator when we ask the machines. [0] https://fstoppers.com/product/ikea-saudi-arabia-photoshops-women-catalog-5087 https://fstoppers.com/product/ikea-saudi-arabia-photoshops-w... [1] https://mattbors.com/blog/2013/03/27/the-gay-marriage-rush/index.html https://mattbors.com/blog/2013/03/27/the-gay-marriage-rush/i... [2] http://68.media.tumblr.com/747b5d8397547e41efb7980eb554838c/tumblr_ojd95z4IHS1ubh1kvo1_1280.png http://68.media.tumblr.com/747b5d8397547e41efb7980eb554838c/...
Accacin 6y ago
Looks like it's because: "Your source for GNU/Linux news, reviews and HOWTO guides. And some K-pop news too."
globular-toast 6y ago
There doesn't appear to be anything going on with them, it's just a site that is about both Linux and K-pop, for some reason.
kingofpandora 6y ago
> What is going on with the pictures of girls in this linuxreviews.org website ? Worth mentioning that is KDE 3 in the screenshot. KDE 4 was released over ten years ago and we are on 5 now.

toyg 6y ago

I think they are pictures of Wei Lin herself. I'd never seen this site before, not sure why it's suddenly making HN front page for rehashing a story from April.

tomcam 6y ago
who is Wei Lin herself? It’s a common name.
- cma 6y ago
  Author of the article (assuming he spelled it wrong)
EdwardDiego 6y ago
Wai Lin (the biography and pictures) is a character from a Bond film - played by Michelle Yeoh, whose cover story was as a reporter for New China News Agency.
- toyg 6y ago
  Are you saying the whole thing is pseudonymous trollbait? Talk about the dangers of a “good” domain name...
ratww 6y ago
The avatar is cropped from this image of the K-Pop band AOA: https://imgur.com/r/AceOfAngels8/0n1LG https://imgur.com/r/AceOfAngels8/0n1LG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOA_(group) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOA_(group)

Lammy 6y ago

I always dread these purity-spiral final stages when it suddenly becomes sexist to normalize having women in things.

jchw 6y ago
While I despise purity spirals, moral panics, and moral grandstanding with a great passion, I don't think that's what's going on here. It is at least mildly quaint. In this case it looks like the folks behind the website are into K-pop, and one of the very strange behaviors of K-pop fans is to post images and videos of their favorite kpop bands ... well, everywhere, often in violation of site ToSes. I'd honestly love to know more about why, because it gets mildly aggravating even if the images/videos themselves are very inoffensive. Since this is their own website, I can't really be frustrated at all honestly. Still seems a little quaint, but I guess that's how a lot of 'ordinary' folks view those of us into Japanese otaku culture as well. Shrug.
- Lammy 6y ago
  Sorry, not my intention to imply they may be inciting a moral panic or grandstanding. The original poster (sorry to pick on you! you're fine!) didn't ask what's with all the K-pop stars on the page; they asked what's with all the women. This comment is already longer than theirs and it just read to me like somebody who generally wants to do the best thing for the most people and would appreciate some help with whether or not a particular thing is "okay" or "offensive". I feel that our natural (not always universal) human desire for inclusivity too often gets entangled with inhuman[1] entities (i.e. an online advertising marketplace) that can speak the language of our emotion but only to get us to click the correct buttons and delete the correct knowledge to make the numbers go up like we programmed it to. I'm just weary of watching "sexist, or not sexist?" get asked about something until every shred of femininity has been deemed unacceptable and removed. Maybe just removing some photos[0] of women from our web pages. Maybe another group of work teammates stop inviting me to lunch or out on smoke breaks with them for fear of saying something offensive, losing their job, and seeing their name/address/SSN/rootpw dragged across Twitter during the Two Minutes Hate. Keep asking and it might eventually become Less Sexist to motion-capturing a real-life woman's face but then alter[@] her to not be so indecently-attractive for a major video game. Hopefully there's a farrier somewhere in this city who can explain this stuff to me. The potential consequences for deemed-offensive speech are severe enough that risk avoidance becomes the only rational choice. All I can do is share how much and how many times this pattern has hurt me personally, hope enough other people feel similarly, and hope talking about it at all might help people feel more empowered and safe enough to make decisions about these topics and not have to defer to the inevitable lowest common denominator when we ask the machines. [0] https://fstoppers.com/product/ikea-saudi-arabia-photoshops-women-catalog-5087 https://fstoppers.com/product/ikea-saudi-arabia-photoshops-w... [1] https://mattbors.com/blog/2013/03/27/the-gay-marriage-rush/index.html https://mattbors.com/blog/2013/03/27/the-gay-marriage-rush/i... [2] http://68.media.tumblr.com/747b5d8397547e41efb7980eb554838c/tumblr_ojd95z4IHS1ubh1kvo1_1280.png http://68.media.tumblr.com/747b5d8397547e41efb7980eb554838c/...

Accacin 6y ago

Looks like it's because: "Your source for GNU/Linux news, reviews and HOWTO guides. And some K-pop news too."

globular-toast 6y ago

There doesn't appear to be anything going on with them, it's just a site that is about both Linux and K-pop, for some reason.

kingofpandora 6y ago

> What is going on with the pictures of girls in this linuxreviews.org website ? Worth mentioning that is KDE 3 in the screenshot. KDE 4 was released over ten years ago and we are on 5 now.