Mykeru wrote:ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:AndrewV69 wrote:Mykeru wrote:ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:Gumby's new avatar: amazing!!
Posting gore pics like goatse and the testicle thing: childish and tiresome. You're going to make some people feel a bit violated, while everyone else is left with "meh, it's not the ync.com".
To avoid censorship, can we have the spoiler tab back?
Sez the cartoon ejaculating glans penis?
With a racist hat even. None of those images bother me in the slightest. But then I used to eat my lunch while sitting at the dissecting table.
One other thing ... is anyone here seriously disturbed at seeing Greta naked? It is not as if it is a private image, and though she is not to my taste, what possible objection could there be?
Well great, you've worked in a dissecting lab. You've seen nasty shit and don't feel anything other than curiosity in images of an extra-scrotal testicle or a goatse. Many people will feel violated and have lasting damage from scrolling down a page and seeing these. I hope this isn't the kind of place where posting gore images and videos is seen as amusing or effective.
If you want to show yor disdain for social conventions, and demonstrate your belief that just because you have seen broken bodies, so everyone else should be fine with them, go and post your stuff on nickelodeon.com. Why not, right? Because you have eaten your lunch at a dissection table, so fuck those kiddies and their sensibilities.
Look, sugar-tits. It happens. It's not a trend. It's not a harbinger of things to come. It doesn't mean you have to be buried outside the city walls when you die of acute butt-hurt.
Sometimes people, to make a point or, in my case, to one-up someone just for the mean-spirited juvenile hell of it, will post stuff that pushes the envelope just a little bit. You won't like it. It will make you feel all icky inside. It may make you beat off to it and then, as a sort of obvious reaction-formation, get on here and complain about it a lot.
But let me assure you. You will go to sleep tonight and tomorrow, when you wake up the sun will be shining, the birds singing and it will all be like a bad dream. Then the people you work with on the farm will come into the room and you'll tell them they were in your dream spreading their ass cheeks and it's good to be home.
Then you will log back in and keep scrolling until you find the stuff that pissed you off in the first place and a signal will go out through the either and, without you even knowing it, the Vatican will fast track you for canonization because you are such a fucking martyr.
Oh my goodness. The DRAMA!
Yeah, taking the time to write a novella which uses some nice humor and imagery to stand in place of an argument is your thing, that's fine (though in this case I don't think you took enough time planning character development and plot cohesiveness. Please take that onboard as constructive criticism.).
But this isn't the same thing as posting Meyers's head onto the body of a naked man with a knife poking from his ass cheeks (as I have done). Or posting a gif of a dog humping a cow (which was excellent satire).
This is about posting goatse and posting an image of a testicle hanging from a cut in the scrotum. These are images which go beyond nakedness, and into bodily internality (behold my social science-type creation of words and WEEP!). Goatse is something which many people would be quite upset to find when scrolling down some a message board. And that 'upset' is nothing like Opheliar's 'upset' at seeing her head shopped onto a lizard's body, or whatever.
Yes, we may point out that an anus is just one end of the human hosepipe, so what is the difference between posting goatse and photos of bad dentistry. But then that's a bit like, as the point I was trying to make in my last comment, saying there is no difference between showing 11-year olds in sex-ed class a video of a woman breastfeeding her baby and showing them "Anal Virgins II".
Anyway, I think the summary would be this: offensiveness - sexual, anatomical, linguistic - is a spectrum. I've declared my position on the first two here (as for the third, I have no limits), and that is all I can or want to do. It's up to the other Pitizens to decide where they stand and whether it's important enough to them to make comment on it either way.