Re: [LAU] [Fwd: Re: Fuck your sexism]

+1 to Bill ... but bringing this back to the linux-audio-sucks
conversation: choosing a default UI that makes some people uncomfortable is
usually poor UI design.

In some places here in the US it is cute and kitschy to put sacks of salted
roasted peanuts around your tavern and let people drop the empty shells on
the floor. It makes the wood floor shiny and keeps the customers thirsty.
But it also serves to exclude the population subset with a peanut allergy.

Did you intend to exclude people who find pin-up girls uncomfortable from
your user group? If not, design principles of usability and accessibility
dictate you should probably change your default behavior.

To me, this is the same as fixing a default palette that is unusable to
those who are colorblind.

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Luke Peterson
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On Feb 10, 2013 2:27 PM, "Bill Gribble" <grib@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

>
>
> Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net> wrote:
> >Is it bad to show a cute girl? Should we only show women wearing hijab
> >or burka?
>
> No, of course not. But sexism is real, and we live in a world where
> sexuality is used as a tool and weapon against women. The projection of
> images of male sexual fantasy in every situation and scenario, whether
> relevant or not, is a mechanism which serves to disempower women.
>
> In the case of wallpaper for a desktop, the choice is not whether to show
> a sexy woman or a woman in a burka. There's no requirement to have images
> of people at all!
>
> I have a female relative who is a somewhat prominent electronic musician
> and has maintained a "professional identity" as a male, since the bias
> against and stereotyping of "lady DJs" is so prominent. This is more of a
> political statement than an actual attempt at deception since she doesn't
> really hide her gender beyond her stage name. Talk to women in music about
> how they are treated, and the ways in which they are sexualized and
> stereotyped by club owners, other musicians, music store employees (a
> whole topic of its own!), even fans. It is ugly.
> So it's not just the details of this one image, which is itself rather
> tamer than a Victoria's Secret billboard. This is a deep and serious
> subject! Best just to avoid the argument by not bringing sexualized images
> in unless you are purposefully making something sexy. I don't think falktx
> was trying to make something sexy.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Gribble
>
> >FWIW
> >
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> >
> >Regards,
> >Ralf
> >
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