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The wickedness that is women's nipples
Just a reminder that women's nipples in art should be covered, lest we head down the slippery slope towards the death of civilisation as we know it.
Personally, I'm in favour of the death of civilisation as we know it.
Personally, I'm in favour of the death of civilisation as we know it.
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What is the world coming to when painted nipples offend people but having pawn shops that buy wedding rings to help feed the obscene desperation of the many while filling the pockets of the few is considered inoffensive?
Oh yeah, you said. It's coming to the end of civilisation as we know it.
My politics a little leftish, can you tell?
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Brings to mind Stephen King's The Stand though.
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I do like that the article points out that this same town ran a 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" campaign at one point. Yeah, so painted nipples will lower the moral tone of the place.
The fact they didn't even ask the artists back to paint the pasties on annoys me no end. The stickers look crap, and just whacking them on there is disrespectful to the artists.
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Las Vegas is actually an oddly conservative place. The styles of acceptable hedonism are very tightly prescribed. Despite the people handing out cards in the street advertising escort agencies, it was also the only city I've been to in the US where I was advised against wearing my d-ring chain shirt; I did anyway, but certainly got less welcoming looks than I had in San Francisco, or would have expected in New York or Ann Arbor.
Our Vegas taxi driver was certainly a very dyed in the wool Republican (Australians are Good Friends of the US, Obama is destroying the economy, etc etc etc).
And once you're more than a couple of km from the strip, you're suddenly in bland suburban sprawl America. I queued in a post office for a little while, then went walking in search of busses or taxis - I could have been anywhere.
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said cards have blobs or stars photoshopped over the nipples.
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Oh, but they're only evil on women. Male nipples are pure and good.
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Various bits of research show that men can and do lactate. In fact historically there was cases of men who lost their wives who went on to breastfeed their infants successfully.
The big issue is cultural. There's an tribe where the men do the breastfeeding and child-raising while the women do other work. Compare this to our culture where you still get guys who refuse to change a nappy.
I didn't try it with Lex because the research I'd found suggested that male milk wasn't as good for the child. Further looking into it suggests that it's actually got a lot more protein that female milk.
So no, not useless, just bound up in bullshit and cultural issues.
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If something is for a functional, useful purpose (like feeding babies) it's evil. But something that is for show (like pasties and male nipples) is all good.
Sounds like Las Vegas thinking!
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It's like movies. You can torture people, shoot old ladies in the head, blow up children, but don't show a breast, that's a terrible, disgusting thing to do.
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