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Feb. 3rd, 2004

1:25 PM

to give you an idea of how i feel about nudity.

imagine how things would be if this was NOT WORK SAFE. because there are tits in it.

it's so ridiculous, the whole thing. and i'd take my shirt off but i think you all know why that would not work, even besides getting myself arrested.

get over the boob people. get. over. the. boob.

Mood: busy

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norabombay wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 10:46 am (UTC)

Well, the little ridge of muscle down by his hips? That's blatently pornographic that is.

Think of the children.

Er, the popstars.

Er, my willingness to stare longingly...

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booyeah wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 10:53 am (UTC)

I don't particularly have a problem with the boob on tv or whatever. In fact, I would like to encourage more of this sort of thing!

I'll never "get over" the boob though. I like them too much.

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 11:02 am (UTC)

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I like boobs too. However I believe we should not all have a heart attack and talk about it for a whole week when we see one. Hello, most people ate from them for quite some time early on. By "get over it" I mean not have this ridiculous reaction as if our children's minds are being horribly warped when they see one etc.

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eeedge wrote:

Feb. 4th, 2004 04:44 am (UTC)

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It's an American thing.

I had a woman I worked with and respected a lot tell me that she'd rather have her 9 year old son see graphic violence on television than nudity because the violence wasn't real and the nudity was.

How's that for warped logic?

But a lot of people, esp. in the South, seem to think like that!!

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catsaurus wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 10:53 am (UTC)

I agree with everything you said, except this: it's so retarded, the whole thing.

Please, please, please try not to use words like retarded to describe a bad situation, event, person, etc. It's a medical condition, period.

Sorry for the rant, I work in the field and am on a personal crusade against retard, that's so retarded, etc.

/rant

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 10:59 am (UTC)

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ok. i won't use it anymore. i'm sorry.

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 11:00 am (UTC)

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also i changed it!

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catsaurus wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 11:27 am (UTC)

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Thanks!

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 02:16 pm (UTC)

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And FYI I feel completely the say way about using "gay" as an insult, so I don't know why I wasn't more sensitive about "retarded".

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catsaurus wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 02:33 pm (UTC)

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That's a perfect analogy, thanks!

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oontzgrrl wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 10:53 am (UTC)

God. Why am I so attracted to him???

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devolutionary wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 10:54 am (UTC)

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Because you're a reta... er, Dumb.

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judithiscariot wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 10:58 am (UTC)

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my old boss preferred "fucked up."

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oontzgrrl wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 11:49 am (UTC)

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hehehehe. I prefer the words intelligence challanged. But still, that guy has a stomach you could eat off of. And then Lick all the crumbs off of him cause something that pretty should not be full of crumbs. Plus I'd like to pinch his lil heiny. Man unlike Britney, I'd be giving it up for him. :)

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professorbooty wrote:

Feb. 6th, 2004 08:21 am (UTC)

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I think you mean gimp.

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subliminaltea wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 11:12 am (UTC)

You know what might cure America's fixation? Watching the movie Breast Men over and over. heh. It's a 1997 flick with David Schwimmer in it. Despite this fact, it is an ok movie. A friend of mine rented it cause, well... erm. The obvious reason. (Huhu huhu huhuuh! Boobies!) However, it turned out to be a hollywoodized biography of the men that invented breast implants. They show in gruesome detail the surgical procedure, and at one point, the results of a botched job. By the end of the movie, I turned to my friend and said, "I don't ever want to see another boobie again. Ever."

Fortunately in later years I was cured, but that's another story. ^^

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meercat wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 11:30 am (UTC)

Man, no shit. I hear more about Janet Jackson's .3-second flash of boob than I do about the latest toxin someone mailed to a senator. Don't make sense.

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professorbooty wrote:

Feb. 6th, 2004 08:22 am (UTC)

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Someone mailed Janet Jackson's boob to a senator?

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bitchiekittie wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 11:55 am (UTC)

we're a country of repressed freaks.

take, for example, a viewing of the movie "28 days later" where the audience gets a quick glimpse of penis. the whole place breaks out in nervous giggling.

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 02:15 pm (UTC)

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The penis is a whole other issue! Have you read the True Porn Clerk Stories entry about size issues? This whole bizarre fear/contempt for the penis is something I really don't get. People need to stop freaking out over the penis but I figured I'd talk about just the boob today. :)

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geniealisa wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 12:00 pm (UTC)

I keep wondering if Europe would even look up from their morning coffee for this kind of thing. Then I wonder why I don't just live in Europe. Then I wonder why my boss' wife is describing in detail the types of snaps used for Ms. Jackson's wardrobe. So many other things that should be done instead of wasting brain cells on someone's chest.

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 02:12 pm (UTC)

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Heh... more reasons for europeans to have a laugh at our expense...

I always wonder what I'd be like if women had wandered around half naked all my life. And I don't mean just stripper shaped women, I mean all women.

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schpahky wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 02:46 pm (UTC)

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One of the best things about going to a public bath in Japan was seeing all the naked women. All ages, all shapes, it's not a gym where people are there to get buff - they're there to relax. It was such a non-event.

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lekythen wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 04:59 pm (UTC)

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*waves* I live in the UK. Tuesday's Daily Telegraph had a very short, bemused article over the US bruhaha.

I mean, honestly. We get the Sun here, which daily publishes the famous Page 3 girls. Said girls almost always have bare breasts and teensy bikini bottoms. The editor of the Sun is a woman. *rolls eyes at the Americans* I'm not even going to mention Eurovision, which is full of nudity, male and female. Erect male nudity forces the show to be aired past the watershed, which is 9:30pm.

I like the UK. It's vaguely rational in comparison to the US.

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prakriti wrote:

Feb. 5th, 2004 02:03 am (UTC)

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Nudity? On eurovision??? You've got to be kidding me. I've always seen eurovision as the wholesomeest, most purely gay thing ever! Although maybe that would explain the erect male nudity... *doh!*

Besides, there was that big hoohaw last year when Tatu wanted to kiss on stage and eurovision told them not to.

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lekythen wrote:

Feb. 5th, 2004 05:25 am (UTC)

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*smacks forehead* Bother. I meant Eurotrash. *rolls eyes* Not that it isn't easy to get them confused.

Ah, the Eurovision Song Contest. Got to love it. I wrote my dissertation during last years. Tatu was okay. Less amusing than Dana International, I feel. Damn, I wish we could inflict it on the Americans.

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prakriti wrote:

Feb. 5th, 2004 06:09 am (UTC)

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Ahhh..Eurotrash. Yes, it all makes sense now. *nods head sagely*

Sadly, I think most americans would hate Eurovision, except for the moral majority in middle america who would latch on it and make all their poor children spend years trying to compete and only suceed in raising the incomes of psychiatrists all across the country. :)

Also, they would never understand the whole Greece/Cypress relationship.

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lekythen wrote:

Feb. 5th, 2004 08:40 am (UTC)

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Don't forget Malta. And the great Baltic state vote rigging.

I may have to friend you as you're an expat with sense. *grin* Would you mind?

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prakriti wrote:

Feb. 6th, 2004 02:57 am (UTC)

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Absolutely (not?)! I was just thinking of friending you as well, but I thought it might be more fun to stalk you *grin* Its probably better if we just friend each other. :)

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 6th, 2004 08:52 am (UTC)

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I cannot tell you how much pleasure it gives me that my friends friend each other, even all the way across the pond.

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keryx wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 12:33 pm (UTC)

Wouldn't that still be considered NOT WORK SAFE? Just for being sexy, that is, not for being considered "nudity" per se?

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 02:09 pm (UTC)

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Usually I think people use the lingo "not work safe" specifically to refer to things that make a movie R rated or what have you. Nipples, and crotchal area. The picture I chose is a sexed-up poster (mainly because it was the first one I found and I thought it would be amusing to juxtapose the aggressor in our recent little American Marketing Hoohah with the aggressee) but I was trying to bring attention to the fact that women's boobage = NAUGHTY/men's boobage = neutral. No, I wouldn't put a picture like this up in my cube, if that's what you mean. But people would have alot less compunction about pulling it up in a browser window in most workplaces than pulling up a picture of a shirtless woman. Or, that is my perception...

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keryx wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 02:56 pm (UTC)

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Yeah, yeah, yeah - I get your intention. :P Admittedly, the culture as a whole sees naked women as way more sexual (unless a dick is involved).

I was trying (and egregiously failing, oops) to make a comment on workplace controls. See, at my workplace, which is - um, pretty PC (despite the fact that my immediate coworkers don't subscribe to any PC philosophy) - it would be just as likely that you'd get smacked for any picture, regardless of gender, with sexy or "inappropriate" intonations.

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 4th, 2004 07:08 am (UTC)

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Oh definately - in regards to workplace controls - I wouldn't recommend people put up half naked pictures of anyone. I am a big fan of certain brands of conservative professionalism.

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castironskillet wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 01:29 pm (UTC)

It's just because men are so visually stimulated. It's a much milder form of the same logic that keeps orthodox muslim women so under wrap - "How can a man be expected to control himself?!"

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cheetahmaster wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 01:44 pm (UTC)

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It's just because men are so visually stimulated.

I don't believe in any biological component to this. I think women and men are equally visually stimulated.

That's just me though.

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 02:10 pm (UTC)

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Yeah, because all the men I know are animalistic slaves to their sex drives. /sarcasm

Stupid puritannicalbizarro fetishistic culture...

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professorbooty wrote:

Feb. 6th, 2004 08:26 am (UTC)

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I'm sorry, could you repost this comment with shorter words please? I'm distracted by the comic misadventure I've found myself in with this bottle of super glue and someone's dessert. I just couldn't help myself.

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 6th, 2004 09:05 am (UTC)

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so was it like this:

puri(sex)tan(sex)nical(sex)biza(sex)rro fet(sex)ishistic

or like this:

(sex)pu(sex)rit(sex)anni(sex)cal(sex)biz(sex)arro etc.

because god knows, only boys think about sex every 2-4 letter.

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boymonster wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 03:43 pm (UTC)

I think you'll have to eliminate all sexual associations with women's breasts first before you'll ever be able to get this country to "get over the boob".

Even in countries where women going topless is acceptable, it's still considered sexy if the woman in question is attractive. And people still freak out.

As for the Superbowl, I'm just pissed off I didn't get to see Britney, Pink and Beyonce' leading a Roman arena in a hearty round of "We Will Rock You."

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professorbooty wrote:

Feb. 6th, 2004 08:27 am (UTC)

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Are there no sexual associations for the hipbone or the curve of the neck or a bared midriff?

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 6th, 2004 09:06 am (UTC)

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It's true, we appear to have gotten over the belly button, why not the boob?

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miss_blu wrote:

Feb. 3rd, 2004 06:44 pm (UTC)

Exactly. :-) -rips hair out in frustration-

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caninescapula wrote:

Feb. 4th, 2004 11:10 am (UTC)

Conspiracy to take focus away from elections? I think maybe. :)

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fractals wrote:

Feb. 4th, 2004 07:11 pm (UTC)

Hey I've seen you around the antiporn community, and I always like what you have to say, soooooo do you mind if I add you?

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snidegrrl wrote:

Feb. 4th, 2004 07:31 pm (UTC)

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Hey, add away! I will add you too. I like the stuff you have to say as well.

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