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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:26:34PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote:

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> to women in music about how they are treated, and the ways in which

> they are sexualized and stereotyped by club owners,  other musicians,

"sexualized"? I'm intrigued, first time I've seen that word.
> music store employees (a whole topic of its own!), even fans.  It is

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> ugly.  So it's not just the details of this one image, which is itself

> rather tamer than a Victoria's Secret billboard.  

Not sure I've seen a "Victoria's Secret billboard" but if it's selling

womans lingerie, then of course in context it should be OK. 
Imagine if the default wallpaper was Justin Bieber in a weird

sexist pose, (In our eyes.) but girls croon and salivate all over

it. I don't know about you but I'd be thinking WTF, and deleting it from

my HDD.
>This is a deep and

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> serious subject!  Best just to avoid the argument by not bringing

> sexualized images in unless you are purposefully making something

I think you mean sexist, instead of "sexualized"
--

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people

who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the

oppressing." --- Malcolm X

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