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   simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 00:29:49 JST simsa04

   • tinydoctor
   So this admin would also ban you (if you hadn't heeded the 3-strikes warning) if you posted a picture of Michelangelo's "David".
   
   Which reminds me of the school principal Hope Carrasquilla who in April was forced to resign from her position at Tallahassee Classical School in Florida due to complaints by parents because she'd shown pictures of the nude "David" in an art class.
   
   Appalling to see how "safe space" admins are in bed with rightwing US-Evangelicals, incapable or unwilling to distinguish between nudity and pornography. They shouldn't check their privileges but their prejudices.
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     simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 01:04:24 JST simsa04

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     • tinydoctor
     I took Michelangelo's "David" as an example because in your reply to your admin's admonition you pointed to the classical depictions of Artemis. It was to these classical art figures to which she replied "Nope". And *that* is the problem. Because if every nudity is treated as pornography, you're not protecting "vulnerable minorities" but use the alleged need of protection for establishung your own agenda. Then you're back in the rightwing 1950s, be it conservative or merely Protestant.
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 01:04:25 JST tinydoctor

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     @simsa04 I don't know; perhaps classical #nudity and art by past masters like Botticelli and Michelangelo gets a pass... Covering a "sensitive" image is really #peekabooism. Very Victorian to my mind. Naughty pictures behind a veil. Makes it a temptation. Titillates by concealment; makes the art perverse rather than the perverse art...hmm? #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten

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     simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 01:06:14 JST simsa04

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     • tinydoctor
     Yes, I remember that as well. Modern fediverse admins are not that different, it seems.
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 01:06:15 JST tinydoctor

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     @simsa04 I'm old enough to remember when John Ashcroft, Attorney General during Bush II's reign, covered up the Art Deco statue of Justice at the Justice Dept. because it had one breast exposed. And he was mercilessly ridiculed for it too. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1788845.stm

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 01:14:32 JST tinydoctor

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     Back further than the fifties, 19th century, Victorian Era.

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     simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 01:17:35 JST simsa04

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     • tinydoctor
     The admin of your instance has been quite clear: EVERY depiction of nudity has to be CW-ed. Otherwise you're out.
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 01:17:37 JST tinydoctor

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     I've used images of Neolithic "venuses" such as the Willendorf Venus in several of my scissor dance #collages. I wonder if that merits a "sensitive" peek-a-boo coverup?

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 06:49:40 JST tinydoctor

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     As the Wicked Witch of the West said, "Ohhhhh, what a world, what a world. Who would have thought that some little <mod> like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness!"

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     simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 07:41:22 JST simsa04

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     • Kitsune
     My reply was to tinydoctor, not to you. I have no interest in talking to you. Stop addressing me.
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     Kitsune (kitsunelol@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 07:41:23 JST Kitsune

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     • tinydoctor

     @simsa04
     @tinydoctor

     Nope. If it contains something considered sexually explict (for example, the female breasts) then you'll have to mark it as sensitive,

     Also. Not an admin. I'm moderator.

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     Kitsune (kitsunelol@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 07:32:57 JST Kitsune

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     @simsa04

     Ok? It's an automated thing when clicking posts. It includes everyone.

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     simsa02 (simsa02@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 06:54:21 JST simsa02

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     @tinydoctor
     I wonder if current ages' prudery is even worse than the Victorian Era's. Back then, the equation of nudity and pornography at least had a touch of excitement and furtive lust wheras today it primarily breathes the stench of moral superiority.

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