Thanks to JR for this link on the Florida WWE nipplegate drama. Apparently Florida law prohibits pictures of nipples in public, with the law possibly being taken too literally in this case.
The big winner in blog coverage was sociological images, a clever parody of 1970s feminist windbaggery serious academic explanation of why deleting or showing nipples is either bad or good.
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Nipplegate: Only In Florida
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OMG... That's a real disaster!;)
"Feminist Windbaggery", huh?
Very nice. I just took your blog out of my bookmarks.
Finally, someone who agrees women should get back in the kitchen!
Dude don't cave to the feminazis.
Epic fail on the commentary.
In my defence, I honestly thought the sociology site was a parody. I had no intention of offending and I genuinely apologize if I did.
Anoymous: (Nice of you have to the courage of your convictions.) There's a big difference between "women should be in the kitchen" and "feminist windbaggery".
Where are the feminist groups protesting the wholesale butchery of birthing women and the rampantly spiraling rate of unnecessary c-sections? Nowhere to be found, because it wouldn't get them any real publicity, and they're just glory whores. I have no time for anyone claiming to be a feminist all the time they sit back while woman are being scarred and mutilated for reasons that amount to convenience for the medical staff, and the utter lies they tell women. Feminists disgust me. Get out and start defending womens rights to birth safely, then you'll have my support.
Sorry to derail, and I do have a relevant comment, though largely it amounted to chuckling and saying "hehehe Nipple H".
If they're truly removing nipples Orton should be gone from that image, as he's a total tit.
Tim, if you seriously can't find any feminist blogs dealing with the natural birth movement, you've seriously not even looked. Try using Google, if you actually care to find them and are not just looking for reasons to feminist-bash out of ignorance.
Not really a photoshop disaster - they HAD to remove the nipples. What else were they to do - put smiley face stickers over them?!?
ps. I'm the guy that made the sarcastic comment about the kitchen. My post was meant to really point out the failings of the commentary... not equating "feminist windbaggery" and sexism. Maybe I should have said something else... whatever...
@Tim, my girlfriend is actually a midwife here in Canada and doing exactly what you suggest. I think you'd be surprised by the level of activism that actually does go on behind the scenes. The number of women using midwives in Canada continues to increase yearly which just goes to show they're winning. Maybe you only see the glory whores fighting the useless battles because thats what gets media attention.
ps. stereotyping is bad.
As a ignorant Swed, would that work with girls to in Florida? Show girls with naked breasts but then take away the nipples?
The internet once again turns a funny picture into a complex heated debate on social and political issues. I love you guys.
obviously...
http://xkcd.com/386/
The Scorpion King Movie poster has The Rocks Nips covered up.
Great! I will tell about this blog to my friends. It's always great to see the mistakes of professionals:)
I read the blog post that was thought of as "feminist windbaggery" and it was clearly not a parody. It just happened to use big words that you might have to actually go to college or read a book to understand.
I don't really accept your apology, why not just call it "windbaggery" and leave the "feminist" part out of it? Feminism has actually done a lot for some of us, not you apparently.
BTW "anonymous", "feminazis" is so played. Why don't you go back to combing your mullet?
actually...i take that back. it was nice of you to apologize. i just don't like it when people take something they don't like or understand about feminism and use it to tar the whole movement with the same brush.
I like this blog, but yeah, the feminist windbaggery comment kind of bugged me. I'll take your word for it that it's an honest mistake though.
Most feminists are not anything like the stereotypes that morons like to propagate. In fact, feminism is fundamentally the concept of treating all women like people, equally and fairly, instead of relegating them to some easily dismissed category.
There is a lot of debate as to how that should be accomplished, but feminism is hardly ever given a fair shake in the mainstream media because ultimately being asked to look at things from another perspective means having to think, and a lot of people avoid that like the plague. That seems to explain why so many people really seem to take any discussion on sexism personally-- to take it seriously and to think about it logically would mean having to face the potential of change in one's thoughts, and therefore, one's life. Too scary, for most.
The big show appear on this wrestle billboard come to be known as florida nipplegate. sociological images in an effort is to explain the heteronormative male gaze, picked up the heavily air brushed visual. They were photoshopped out supposedly because of a law in florida that prohibits the display of nipples.
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