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It's pretty sexist if you ask me. A general complaint of mine: tech news (and in this case this blog post) include meaningless pictures of woman in a way that

It's pretty sexist if you ask me. A general complaint of mine: tech news (and in this case this blog post) include meaningless pictures of woman in a way that is embarrassing to the industry. I'm getting tired of clicking links on HackerNews and LinkedIn today that look like US/People Magazine to any casual observer walking by. We're better than that.

watty 15y ago
The majority of the article is doing touch up work to a woman, which is a very common task. There is nothing sexist about this work, and it's idiotic to claim so.
- factorizer 15y ago
  that would be a valid reason, if the author of the article actually was working on touch up work of the pictured female. somehow i have the suspicion that no: he chose it on purpose, because, you know: BOOBS!
- lukejduncan 15y ago
  Why have the main picture a shot of cleavage? He doesn't touch up the cleavage anywhere in the picture. If he did, it'd probably make for a pretty weird demo. The point of the picture was to illustrate the single window mode. It seems like there would be a common sense test where you think: "Is this really how I want to represent myself and this software?"
  - watty 15y ago
    It's a female in a bathing suit! There's nothing sleazy about touching up a female or male in photo editing software. In fact, these are probably two of the most common things touched up for photo work.
    - nicubunu 15y ago
      not even a bathing suit, she is wearing a corset http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/2012/04/siamb-2012-denisa.html http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/2012/04/siamb-2012-denisa.html
ciupicri 15y ago
Out of curiosity why is it embarrassing? I bet that if I'll ask some female friends from the industry what they think of the article, none of them will complain about this.
- lukejduncan 15y ago
  It's like a sensationalist link-bait title, but more visible. I really dislike that opening industry news has a high probability of looking like I'm reading a tabloid to anyone who walks by my cube. Seriously, if someone walked by and sees a 30 in monitor with a large picture of some girls cleavage do you really think they'll buy that I was reading about open source photo editing software? It reminds me of the old joke: "I read playboy for the articles." Maybe I'm unreasonable, I'm open to that conclusion. I just find myself think "really guys, how does that picture say anything about this article" incredibly often. It seems tacky.

watty 15y ago

The majority of the article is doing touch up work to a woman, which is a very common task. There is nothing sexist about this work, and it's idiotic to claim so.

factorizer 15y ago
that would be a valid reason, if the author of the article actually was working on touch up work of the pictured female. somehow i have the suspicion that no: he chose it on purpose, because, you know: BOOBS!
lukejduncan 15y ago
Why have the main picture a shot of cleavage? He doesn't touch up the cleavage anywhere in the picture. If he did, it'd probably make for a pretty weird demo. The point of the picture was to illustrate the single window mode. It seems like there would be a common sense test where you think: "Is this really how I want to represent myself and this software?"
- watty 15y ago
  It's a female in a bathing suit! There's nothing sleazy about touching up a female or male in photo editing software. In fact, these are probably two of the most common things touched up for photo work.
  - nicubunu 15y ago
    not even a bathing suit, she is wearing a corset http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/2012/04/siamb-2012-denisa.html http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/2012/04/siamb-2012-denisa.html

ciupicri 15y ago

Out of curiosity why is it embarrassing? I bet that if I'll ask some female friends from the industry what they think of the article, none of them will complain about this.

lukejduncan 15y ago
It's like a sensationalist link-bait title, but more visible. I really dislike that opening industry news has a high probability of looking like I'm reading a tabloid to anyone who walks by my cube. Seriously, if someone walked by and sees a 30 in monitor with a large picture of some girls cleavage do you really think they'll buy that I was reading about open source photo editing software? It reminds me of the old joke: "I read playboy for the articles." Maybe I'm unreasonable, I'm open to that conclusion. I just find myself think "really guys, how does that picture say anything about this article" incredibly often. It seems tacky.