[WikiEN-l] Nude Kate Winslet Picture

Wed Apr 13 16:27:34 UTC 2005

Rick wrote:

>The community HAS resolved this non-problem.  It has
>decided, by consensus, that there is nothing wrong
>with having images like this.
>
I hope this is not so.  I don't tend to be vocal in these debates, but I 
will feel a strong regret if the encyclopedia becomes the bulletin board 
for such a community.

I would like to suggest from my own experience a possible factor that 
tends to consistently skew debates on these subjects.  Some of you may 
be surprised, but most of you will sympathize with the idea that I find 
the mere subject line of the current thread to be embarrassing and 
discouraging to my participation.  I am very hesitant to visit, even for 
the noblest reasons, some of the arenas where these debates have run 
(autofel..., clit...).  I am a father, a brother, a husband, a church 
elder, an engineer, and many other roles in which I am loathe to be 
associated with the subjects of these debates.  I suggest that many, 
many others like me who have opinions that there is something wrong with 
including images like this also have various reasons to be discouraged 
from participating in debates about the same images.  I am very sorry 
that we are absent from such debates, but it just happens that they are 
framed in ways and carried on in places that discourage our active 
participation.

Tom Haws