On 4/17/05, Tony Sidaway
<minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com> wrote:
Exactly. There's nothing wrong with tweaking a few tweakable noses,
especially those who raise purely personal objections, based on local
cultural sensitivities, to aspects of an encyclopedic project. Such
pressure is a naked and (because we're nice people and don't like to
offend, largely successful) attempt to distort the encyclopedia on
non-encyclopedic grounds. We can give a little but only where it
doesn't matter much.
Oh, come off it. The examples we're talking about aren't based on
entirely personal objections or local cultural sensitivities.
The Titanic picture is an excellent example of one to which some people
have expressed entirely personal objections. It is not a shockingly
violent image, or even an overtly sexualized one, just a woman in a
classic nude pose, the kind of thing you'd expect to see in the window of
your local art gallery.