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

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:26:34PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote:
> to women in music about how they are treated, and the ways in which
> they are sexualized and stereotyped by club owners, other musicians,

"sexualized"? I'm intrigued, first time I've seen that word.

> 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.

Not sure I've seen a "Victoria's Secret billboard" but if it's selling
womans lingerie, then of course in context it should be OK.

 
Imagine if the default wallpaper was Justin Bieber in a weird
sexist pose, (In our eyes.) but girls croon and salivate all over
it. I don't know about you but I'd be thinking WTF, and deleting it from
my HDD.

>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

I think you mean sexist, instead of "sexualized"

-- 
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X
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