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You're probably jesting; but it'd be more representative of the computing industry if we used a picture of a male. It is an interesting philosophical question o

by roenxi 3y ago

You're probably jesting; but it'd be more representative of the computing industry if we used a picture of a male. It is an interesting philosophical question of whether that would be an improvement.

bitwize 3y ago
I think the most appropriate response to this kerfuffle was when an all-female team of researchers published an image processing paper... using Fabio as a test image.
- sitkack 3y ago
  That was a great paper Stable image reconstruction using total variation minimization https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Stable-Image-Reconstruction-Using-Total-Variation-Needell-Ward/99a2a73c43962cf3c69a57db3b1f95e72a48e33e https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Stable-Image-Reconstru...
Shawnj2 3y ago
The issue with Lena is objectification, the equivalent male photo would be like a picture of the chest of a bodybuilder.
- roenxi 3y ago
  Well ... it wouldn't. It'd be a bodybuilder shot cropped to the head. The shot, as used, isn't objectification. The original would have been, but it isn't used - because, I would suggest, of the objectification issue.
  - numpad0 3y ago
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    - CapstanRoller 3y ago
      >One side is going to say the entire existence of an attractive women is amoral No one said that, is saying it, or will say it. You made it up in your head and keep "quoting" this claim so you can get mad about it and "argue" against it. Grow up.
      - matsemann 3y ago
        Yeah, this whole thread is weird and filled with angry rants against something no one has said. It's quite ironic that removing a picture for the sake of inclusitivity raises this kind of responses. I wonder how many here are also making their woman coworkers uncomfortable every day, given their apparent lack of empathy and dismissal of their feelings.
        foverzar 3y ago
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numpad0 3y ago
To be blunt, male don't feel threatened by a poster of a manly topless macho. It won't incite inferiority complex, at least not by much. Else The Terminator would offend and upset a shit ton of men, and it would been a very unpopular movie. So why should it be suddenly problematic the subject of a poster had assumed certain gender that isn't men? If it's biological, why can't it be said? Is arachnophobia and ophidiophobia shameful to admit too?
- matsemann 3y ago
  Because "feeling threatened" is not what this is about, so your point is meaningless. It's dishonest to make up stuff.
- roughly 3y ago
  > To be blunt, male don't feel threatened by a poster of a manly topless macho. It won't incite inferiority complex, at least not by much. Oh man, if only this were true.

by roenxi 3y ago

You're probably jesting; but it'd be more representative of the computing industry if we used a picture of a male. It is an interesting philosophical question of whether that would be an improvement.

bitwize 3y ago

I think the most appropriate response to this kerfuffle was when an all-female team of researchers published an image processing paper... using Fabio as a test image.

sitkack 3y ago
That was a great paper Stable image reconstruction using total variation minimization https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Stable-Image-Reconstruction-Using-Total-Variation-Needell-Ward/99a2a73c43962cf3c69a57db3b1f95e72a48e33e https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Stable-Image-Reconstru...

Shawnj2 3y ago

The issue with Lena is objectification, the equivalent male photo would be like a picture of the chest of a bodybuilder.

roenxi 3y ago
Well ... it wouldn't. It'd be a bodybuilder shot cropped to the head. The shot, as used, isn't objectification. The original would have been, but it isn't used - because, I would suggest, of the objectification issue.
- numpad0 3y ago
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  - CapstanRoller 3y ago
    >One side is going to say the entire existence of an attractive women is amoral No one said that, is saying it, or will say it. You made it up in your head and keep "quoting" this claim so you can get mad about it and "argue" against it. Grow up.
    - matsemann 3y ago
      Yeah, this whole thread is weird and filled with angry rants against something no one has said. It's quite ironic that removing a picture for the sake of inclusitivity raises this kind of responses. I wonder how many here are also making their woman coworkers uncomfortable every day, given their apparent lack of empathy and dismissal of their feelings.
      - foverzar 3y ago
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numpad0 3y ago

To be blunt, male don't feel threatened by a poster of a manly topless macho. It won't incite inferiority complex, at least not by much. Else The Terminator would offend and upset a shit ton of men, and it would been a very unpopular movie. So why should it be suddenly problematic the subject of a poster had assumed certain gender that isn't men? If it's biological, why can't it be said? Is arachnophobia and ophidiophobia shameful to admit too?

matsemann 3y ago
Because "feeling threatened" is not what this is about, so your point is meaningless. It's dishonest to make up stuff.
roughly 3y ago
> To be blunt, male don't feel threatened by a poster of a manly topless macho. It won't incite inferiority complex, at least not by much. Oh man, if only this were true.