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Ivy League nude posture photos

48 points by pessimizer 1y ago

g-b-r 1y ago
Astonishing https://journals.openedition.org/miranda/44430 https://journals.openedition.org/miranda/44430 is a good article
ycombinatrix 1y ago
What the fuck? Reminds me of Jerry Sandusky
nine_k 1y ago
I'd say this is the most important quote: > In later interviews, many women who had been posture photo subjects expressed profound embarrassment and pain over the experience, and even guilt about not objecting. Writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron (Wellesley '62) said, "We were idiots. Idiots!" If you find something obviously wrong, make a noise about it, even if the perpetrators look very serious and proper.
- gus_massa 1y ago
  It's easier to say than do it. In an unrelated field, 5 minutes before a medical procedure it's common that they give you some "standard" paperwork that says that they explained all the details of the procedure and all the possible complications. You can sign it, or risk losing your spot and coming one month later (probably without a detailed explanation).
shirro 1y ago
I have always hated the mad scientist archetype in media because it feels anti-intellectual and unrealistic but then you consider Unit 731, Joseph Mengele and all the experiments on black people, children, prisoners and service people in the USA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio... you have to wonder if perhaps some of the portrayals aren't a bit tame. It is disturbing how much psuedo science and unethical shit just gets a pass. If their media is to be believed they talk about polygraphs in the US like they are anything but a means to pressure a confession while the rest of the world regards them as pseudo-science. Consider that the places forcing freshman to be photographed for what was essentually racist eugenics psuedo science were supposed to be places of learning. Its wild. Like what the hell is wrong with our species?

48 points by pessimizer 1y ago

Astonishing https://journals.openedition.org/miranda/44430 https://journals.openedition.org/miranda/44430 is a good article

ycombinatrix 1y ago

What the fuck? Reminds me of Jerry Sandusky

nine_k 1y ago

I'd say this is the most important quote: > In later interviews, many women who had been posture photo subjects expressed profound embarrassment and pain over the experience, and even guilt about not objecting. Writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron (Wellesley '62) said, "We were idiots. Idiots!" If you find something obviously wrong, make a noise about it, even if the perpetrators look very serious and proper.

gus_massa 1y ago
It's easier to say than do it. In an unrelated field, 5 minutes before a medical procedure it's common that they give you some "standard" paperwork that says that they explained all the details of the procedure and all the possible complications. You can sign it, or risk losing your spot and coming one month later (probably without a detailed explanation).

shirro 1y ago

I have always hated the mad scientist archetype in media because it feels anti-intellectual and unrealistic but then you consider Unit 731, Joseph Mengele and all the experiments on black people, children, prisoners and service people in the USA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio... you have to wonder if perhaps some of the portrayals aren't a bit tame. It is disturbing how much psuedo science and unethical shit just gets a pass. If their media is to be believed they talk about polygraphs in the US like they are anything but a means to pressure a confession while the rest of the world regards them as pseudo-science. Consider that the places forcing freshman to be photographed for what was essentually racist eugenics psuedo science were supposed to be places of learning. Its wild. Like what the hell is wrong with our species?