carlosmanuel opened this issue on Mar 15, 2002 ยท 45 posts
Hiram posted Fri, 15 March 2002 at 5:14 PM
Hmmm. I'm not buyin' any of it. Nature is sexist if you want to get right down to it. That's why men are big and strong and women are little and weak.
KIDDING!!!!!
(I'm going to get my ass kicked for that, I know it. Before any body jumps on me I'll have you know I used to be married to a big, beautiful, black woman who could kick my butt at wrestling. Sometimes.)
But really:
The simple fact is that female genitalia are primarily internal. For most art purposes, the external bits are easily supplied with good texture and bump maps... unless of course you want to do erotica.
I'm not saying that there's not a legitimate reason to provide genitalia, I like to do erotic images too. But I'm not going to veil that with pretenses about natural beauty.
The female models, as they are, are more than adequate to express natural femininity in a huge variety of forms. Whereas, a male without a penis and testicles is obviously missing something.
The only reason to provide more than the groove we get is to be able to get up close and open it up. As I said, that's fine if that's what you want to do. Just say so, instead of being embarassed about what you're really making Vickie do at night.
RANT WARNING
Ask yourself why the hell Mike is circumsized. That's religious persecution!! I WANT FORESKIN MORPHS! Men's bodies are beautiful in their natural state! This is anti-male! It's sexist too! Why are they foisting MUTILATED figures on us???
Whatever.
I'm sick to death of party-line politics. "Let's see... is there something in this that I could possibly be offended at? There is!! Oh goody! I get to rant my favorite rants! All pre-packaged and ready to go! I don't even have to think them through myself, 'cause I read them in Utne Reader!"