Forum: OT


Subject: Gallery image deleted

Tisa opened this issue on Nov 23, 2002 ยท 66 posts


Madrigal posted Mon, 25 November 2002 at 9:34 AM

I agree with Mosca - if you're gonna delete TG images, you have to delete nude women, and why not go the whole way and delete all the nude men as well - after all, they're usually hunks, they might make the rest of us feel rather inadequate :D Maybe then we can start deleting all the figures in clothing too, they might be better dressed than ourselves...... I know a number of TG and TS people myself - not the same thing in my understanding, as far as I know TS are of one sex but have the wrong body, due, according to current thinking, to hormonal influences in the womb. TG tend to be more fluid, often adopting male and female personae or just being somewhere in the middle - a nice idea :) I think it's a fine line between mainstreaming images of a group of people who tend to be always the outsiders, even in the gay community, and using them as sexual images to titillate. I don't recall ever seeing an image of an FTM guy posted, correct me if I'm wrong, I wonder if perhaps a woman with a penis appeals to men who might be sexually interested in another man, but only if he's made safe by having breasts and other female characteristics. An FTM is much more threatening, a woman who's really a guy? It doesn't sit well with patriarchal society. I didn't see Tisa's image, though I'd have liked to. I think her art is pretty good, like the pussy pic, 15:1, I thought it was interesting. And armpit hair? Women have hair in their armpits, so what? So do I..... I'd rather see a real woman than Barbie, guess that's not the opinion of a lot of people around here :) Once shaved off my pubes, that's a killer, ouch, the itching....... Don't know how anyone can do that, just cause they think it looks nice. I post mainly at rotica, I don't get a lot of people looking at my stuff here, probably because most is obviously gay - I'm also not such a good artist yet as many that post here. I posted a naked woman and got a lot more hits than usual..... It's what people want. A lot of people come here, they don't want to be disturbed or challenged, they want to see tits. Personally, I'd rather see something that makes me think. My lover is notorious for doing pics that are quite shocking, he does a lot of bdsm gay art and, in the past, has had, er, disagreements with people on rosity because of this, the old that's not art it's porn thing. Not true - it is art, good art, and there's a lot more in his pics than sex. Okay, maybe it's porn as well, I guess you can have both. As far as Tisa goes, I like to see someone post something that makes people argue and disagree about it, I'd call that more artistic than a bunch of bland Vikki Temple pics. Surely art is about communication, the ability to communicate something of yourself, whatever that may be, if it's anger, fair enough. And I think pulling the image was wrong, even if it was directed at rosity, if she has issues with them fair enough, they're not immune to criticism, surely? It's just book-burning, if that's the case....... BTW, I think she IS Legume.........

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