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> nothing in the Baywatch intro is NSFW a debatable claim. There are several scenes in the intro I would not want to have paused fullscreen in a work environme
by heeen2 5y ago
> nothing in the Baywatch intro is NSFW
a debatable claim. There are several scenes in the intro I would not want to have paused fullscreen in a work environment.
- wongarsu 5y agoNSFW is definitely a sliding (multi-dimensional) scale, and different cultures and work places place themselves differently on it. At a previous workplace (software department in a manufacturing company in Western Europe) a women with only the lower half of her bikini laying on a beach was fine as a desktop background as long as you couldn't see her nipples. At a different company in field service exposed frontal breasts were still SFW. Meanwhile in many other jobs you would get in trouble for far less.
- meepmorp 5y agoMany years ago, I worked a printing company, and several of our accounts were local porn mags and an adult newspaper that was basically escort ads. The account reps loved those jobs.
- BeefWellington 5y agoAre there shows you'd be comfortable having paused fullscreen in a work environment? Just doing so would suggest you aren't actually working (on its own a problem in many cultures).
- Charlie_26 5y agoHow can you call yourself Beef Wellington when you aren't even familiar with the concept of lunch
- macksd 5y agoI probably wouldn't do this in a shared office, but I'm pretty open about the fact that I often like to have a show in the background while I work. Keeps my mind from wandering too far if I have a momentary pause for a big download or a long compile or something. And a lot of people find moderate background noise helps them focus. I've been through every Star Trek multiple times and am plenty productive at work. But Bay Watch isn't something I would want coworkers to see. Nipples or no nipples, it's trying to sexualize / objectify about as much as they could get away with in prime time TV. I can't go join a meeting about inclusive culture with my female coworkers if they just saw me staring at Pamela Anderson's bouncing tits in the middle of the workday.
- eru 5y agoThough Star Trek had its moments as well.
- BeefWellington 5y agoI agree with pretty much everything you said. My statement was not a defense of watching Baywatch but rather a comment on watching everything being highly dependent on your workplace situation and culture. In an office setting the background noise can be highly disruptive, for example.
- ct0 5y agoHigh jacking the top comment to include my epiphany that "work" is really relative. I used to work at a place that had playboys in the bathroom. We should replace NSFW with NSFC - Not Safe for Childern.
- scotty79 5y ago> Not Safe for Childern. Which is also a debatable because I don't think there's much resarch indicating that images of naked people are in any way harmful for children. Maybe NSFPP? Not safe for parents and puritans?
- wizzwizz4 5y ago"Images of naked people" and "sexualised images of naked people" are different things. A six year-old reading Playboy is totally different to a six year-old visiting a nudist beach.
- lambic 5y agoOr just "contains nudity". I always found it strange that people seem more worried about kids seeing naked people than they are about kids being exposed to violence.
- commandlinefan 5y agoAnd some people actually work at playboy - they have a website after all.
- easrng 5y agoNot Safe for Children according to who? And how do you define children?
- commandlinefan 5y agoWell, unless you work for NBC that is.