kyphi wrote:Shewasfly wrote:Hello. I'm a straight woman and I enjoy sports. I'd like to be able to talk about them on here from time to time without being subjected to sexist talk or have to look at random pictures of half naked women. I don't think men would be told to tolerate being in a space where they were talked about like objects or like they're inferior anymore than women should be asked to.
I also would appreciate if the rules would be applied the same across the board. If a guy can post hundreds of irrelevant pictures of naked or nearly naked women and no mod bats an eyelash, the mod(s) who see one picture of a half naked man should
not be allowed to immediately delete that post and especially so without explanation.
My suggestion is to deal with this, immediately. Thanks
I've been here 10 yrs longer than you, and you do have a valid point. Realgm HAS become better with restrictions on pictures of scantily clad women. We have some globals who have women's backs on this matter. Plus, we now have spoiler tags which help also. But, and it's a big but, this is a sports' site and sports' culture does include scantily-clad women. It's everywhere; sex sells.
OK, then I should be able to do the same, as should other women posters. Again, as a woman I am sadly used to seeing women objectified, so its not just about the pictures themselves. I would bet my last dollar that in the Heat game thread that I'm referring to--that I'm sure you are aware of--the guys were
alot more bothered by my pic than I was about theirs because they are not used to seeing their gender objectified like I am. And so they feel entitled to feel more justified about taking exception to my post than I do to theirs.
But all that said, when I post the same except with men, I do not expect mods to immediately delete my post because its not their taste. Their taste is not mine either, but I am told to suck it up and deal with it so why shouldn't they?
Most of these pictures are in game threads across RealGm and include pictures of that team's "dancers" as good luck charms.
This part makes sense if the pictures are actually of dancers. Restrictions need to be put in that this is what its kept to. I wouldn't have an issue with that, especially since they will at least have on team memorabilia. But if that restriction isn't made in game threads and women/gay men fans cannot begin to post the pictures that
we like to see, that is clearly unfair.
There is no way these pictures are going away altogether so I suggest you pick your battles and just ignore most of the pictures. Plus, don't make it personal by calling posters names; that's a fast track to a ban.
PM me if you want to know whom to contact about the egregious ones.
Ask yourself why they have any right to be present in the game threads? Guys can make separate threads to post T&A all they want, why are they entitled to have them in game threads?
