[WikiEN-l] Kate Winslet Picture

Wed Apr 13 16:28:34 UTC 2005

> 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

Well said, I sorry for having not taking that into consideration for the
subject line when starting the thread.

-Kevin