It's made of classy...

[bluegargantua]

Hi,

Remember that informal study about sexism on the cover of Dragon Magazine? Yeah, you'll fondly wish for more of that after seeing this. [MILDLY NSFW]

"Girls just ain't into D&D..."
Tom

Comments

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."

- Justice Potter Stewart, Supreme Court of the United States; concurring opinion, Jacobellis v. Ohio, 1964

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

The surveyor could also have shown the group of images to a significant sample set of an audience and had them rate the suggestiveness and submissiveness of the images and taken that statistic... there were probably a dozen ways it could have been done better than just "me decided". I take umbrage with the supreme court decision, as well as with bodies like the MPAA who think they "know it when they see it". Cultures decide norms, not individuals, or even small groups of individuals.

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

"Culture" is just the tyranny of the mediocre majority, which is pretty much what bodies like the Supreme Court are designed to distill into a manageable sample size. :)