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> I am trying to understand the claim that using a picture of Lena is somehow sexist. Oh come on, really now? This is the picture: http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~
by clicks 13y ago
> I am trying to understand the claim that using a picture of Lena is somehow sexist.
Oh come on, really now? This is the picture: http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~lmpo/lenna/len_full.jpg http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~lmpo/lenna/len_full.jpg
You don't think she's posing in a sexually suggestive way? The picture is originally from Playboy as the other comment pointed out.
- srean 13y agoThe image used in the research papers is a tight crop around the face, and sorry to disappoint I dont find anything suggestive there. Pretty yes, suggestive no. Answers to questions like that depend a lot on the ambient culture. Some conservative cultures might find it provocative, sometimes an just and unveiled face is considered so.
- Terretta 13y agoThat is not the picture. In two decades of computer science I'd never before seen that picture. This is the picture: https://www.google.com/search?q=lena+image+processing&safe=off https://www.google.com/search?q=lena+image+processing&sa... Unless the audience was 12, I'm unable to imagine a single "giggle" or "snicker" in reaction to it. Perhaps this was PR hyperbole or in the mind of the beholder. That said, if the idea is to add Fabio to this standard set (which includes the mentioned baboon, btw) ... http://opticalengineering.spiedigitallibrary.org/data/Journals/OPTICE/24272/OE_51_10_100901_f010.png http://opticalengineering.spiedigitallibrary.org/data/Journa... ... then why not. There's a benefit to a direct face shot that's less of a bonobo.