Casette opened this issue on Jan 20, 2007 · 433 posts
JimFarris posted Thu, 25 January 2007 at 6:25 AM
For those who are wondering what all the fuss is about, incidentally, the image shows a topless woman in jeans holding up two pictures, one over each breast. The pictures are of two tits - small birds of the Paridae family, also known as chickadees. There is a word-baloon by the woman's head where she says "Some of you people should be ASHAMED of yourselves", and the text on the image reads as follows:
"The tit, also called chickadee or titmouse, is a bird of the family Paridae. Tits are are a large family of small passerine birds which occur in the northern hemisphere and Africa. The name 'titmouse' derives from the 14th century, composed of the Old English name for the bird, mase (Proto-Germanic *maison) and tit, denoting something small. In America, these birds are called "chickadees", an onomatopoeic name derived from their distinctive "chick-a-dee-dee-dee" alarm call. The name 'tits', common to most of the remainder of the English speaking world, is simply a shortened version of 'titmouse', and simply means 'small'."
The thumbnail is complely true in everything it says. It's a picture of a naked pair of tits. The two tits shown in the image are not wearing clothing (as is normal for birds), hence, they are naked. The woman is topless, there is nudity in the image, but it conforms to the TOS as it is tasteful nudity - the nipples are covered by the pictures she is holding up. The image is a joke - a pun on the name of the bird.
Soooooo...
Someone had to have blocked the picture without even looking at it, just based on the thumbnail.
To me, this simply brings the whole issue of the new thumbnail TOS to a head. My image was blocked without even being looked at, simply based on the thumbnail, which is totally compliant with the new TOS. But, because nobody actually bothered to LOOK at the image before they blocked it, they never saw that it was a joke - it's a pun.
My apologies to any moderators who are reading this and disagree, but I am afraid that the real problem here at Renderosity is that the administration has grown ridiculously puritanical.
Come on, now - we're talking about a picture of two little birds. Someone needs to get a life.