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Title aside, this is an article about the theft of a famous painting and the opening contains an image of said painting. Are many workplaces really so strict o

Title aside, this is an article about the theft of a famous painting and the opening contains an image of said painting. Are many workplaces really so strict or people so embarrassed about nudity that being caught reading an article with an image of tastefully painted nudity is an issue?

haliskerbas 5y ago
Yes, being labeled a creep at work risks your entire livelihood.
- elliekelly 5y ago
  Ceci n’est pas “a creep”. The treachery of images of women’s breasts on the internet.
- m_st 5y ago
  This is a picture of art. Not a nude web site. If I would be considered "a creep" for reading this, then I would consider changing employer. Or not be reading articles on the internet while working.
mcherm 5y ago
> Are many workplaces really so strict or people so embarrassed about nudity that being caught reading an article with an image of tastefully painted nudity is an issue? Yes. Many are. Labeling thing with "NSFW" is a polite step we can take to make it easier for those whose workplaces DO have that concern. I have previously worked in a high school and at a bank -- both would have had this concern; for the former it would have been a serious offense.
- Agentlien 5y ago
  Out of curiosity, can I ask in which part of the world these were located? The fact that it would have been a serious concern is itself concerning in my eyes. The art of Magritte is something I would expect and hope would be showcased in school, not frowned upon.
- gambiting 5y ago
  >>for the former it would have been a serious offense Looking at ART would be a serious offence at a high school???? Are the history/art books you use at that school also censored? I mean, sure, someone might react to it if they only saw the painting briefly flash on the screen, but surely any sort of misundersstanding could be explaineed in a grand total of 10 seconds of conversation.
  - danaris 5y ago
    At some high schools, books with art of that type would have been strictly prohibited in the libraries. Even at others, looking at art in a book about art, that happens to have naked ladies pictured, would be seen as completely different (and more obviously scholarly) than looking at naked ladies, whoever originally painted them, on the computer. Once it's on the computer, it's just Internet Porn.
    - gambiting 5y ago
      >>At some high schools, books with art of that type would have been strictly prohibited in the libraries. What an awful, awful place to live that must be. >>Once it's on the computer, it's just Internet Porn. Is that like a written rule somewhere? Surely it could be explained to a person with like, 2 functional brain cells that an article about art will have a picture of said art included.
      - danaris 5y ago
        > What an awful, awful place to live that must be. Welcome to the fundamentalist theocratic Christian hell that is (parts of) America. > Is that like a written rule somewhere? Surely it could be explained to a person with like, 2 functional brain cells that an article about art will have a picture of said art included. While I have personally been fortunate enough not to fall afoul of such people, I have absolutely heard from people who had to deal with librarians or other school administrator types who, whether or not they had 2 functional brain cells in other contexts, were absolutely inflexible in their treatment of students on computers. Naturally, this would've been back in the '90s, so having computers at all was a fairly new thing, and computers with Internet access were (for a public school library) positively bleeding edge. But students doing anything on computers other than very obviously typing papers were, at best, Goofing Around With School Resources, and, if there was anything on the screen that might remotely resemble porn....frankly, that could have been enough in many places in my youth to get a student expelled, without the possibility of appeal. Today, such a reaction would be much less common, but I would not be at all shocked if there were places in the Bible Belt where it was still totally possible.
sixothree 5y ago
You could pretend the reality some people live is not true.
- Agentlien 5y ago
  Let me be clear: I am not claiming what others experience is not real. Simply saying that it's far enough from what I've experienced in my corner of the world, that I find it surprising.

haliskerbas 5y ago

Yes, being labeled a creep at work risks your entire livelihood.

elliekelly 5y ago
Ceci n’est pas “a creep”. The treachery of images of women’s breasts on the internet.
m_st 5y ago
This is a picture of art. Not a nude web site. If I would be considered "a creep" for reading this, then I would consider changing employer. Or not be reading articles on the internet while working.

mcherm 5y ago

> Are many workplaces really so strict or people so embarrassed about nudity that being caught reading an article with an image of tastefully painted nudity is an issue? Yes. Many are. Labeling thing with "NSFW" is a polite step we can take to make it easier for those whose workplaces DO have that concern. I have previously worked in a high school and at a bank -- both would have had this concern; for the former it would have been a serious offense.

Agentlien 5y ago
Out of curiosity, can I ask in which part of the world these were located? The fact that it would have been a serious concern is itself concerning in my eyes. The art of Magritte is something I would expect and hope would be showcased in school, not frowned upon.
gambiting 5y ago
>>for the former it would have been a serious offense Looking at ART would be a serious offence at a high school???? Are the history/art books you use at that school also censored? I mean, sure, someone might react to it if they only saw the painting briefly flash on the screen, but surely any sort of misundersstanding could be explaineed in a grand total of 10 seconds of conversation.
- danaris 5y ago
  At some high schools, books with art of that type would have been strictly prohibited in the libraries. Even at others, looking at art in a book about art, that happens to have naked ladies pictured, would be seen as completely different (and more obviously scholarly) than looking at naked ladies, whoever originally painted them, on the computer. Once it's on the computer, it's just Internet Porn.
  - gambiting 5y ago
    >>At some high schools, books with art of that type would have been strictly prohibited in the libraries. What an awful, awful place to live that must be. >>Once it's on the computer, it's just Internet Porn. Is that like a written rule somewhere? Surely it could be explained to a person with like, 2 functional brain cells that an article about art will have a picture of said art included.
    - danaris 5y ago
      > What an awful, awful place to live that must be. Welcome to the fundamentalist theocratic Christian hell that is (parts of) America. > Is that like a written rule somewhere? Surely it could be explained to a person with like, 2 functional brain cells that an article about art will have a picture of said art included. While I have personally been fortunate enough not to fall afoul of such people, I have absolutely heard from people who had to deal with librarians or other school administrator types who, whether or not they had 2 functional brain cells in other contexts, were absolutely inflexible in their treatment of students on computers. Naturally, this would've been back in the '90s, so having computers at all was a fairly new thing, and computers with Internet access were (for a public school library) positively bleeding edge. But students doing anything on computers other than very obviously typing papers were, at best, Goofing Around With School Resources, and, if there was anything on the screen that might remotely resemble porn....frankly, that could have been enough in many places in my youth to get a student expelled, without the possibility of appeal. Today, such a reaction would be much less common, but I would not be at all shocked if there were places in the Bible Belt where it was still totally possible.

sixothree 5y ago

You could pretend the reality some people live is not true.

Agentlien 5y ago
Let me be clear: I am not claiming what others experience is not real. Simply saying that it's far enough from what I've experienced in my corner of the world, that I find it surprising.