[Closed] The Ad on here "1 tip for a sexy stomach" with the girl in the red bikini

Like probably every other person on the planet I wear and buy T shirts....but I don't buy, wear or even view knickers online.

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" if you were offended by it then don't look at it but to report it to the mods is taking the "I'm offended, ban it now" stance in my opinion. So you were offended?, bully for you!, I consider Stephen Fry has the correct response for this situation"

You're railing pretty hard at those people who are offended by the perv threads and who report them to the mods for that reason. Have we established that any such people actually exist?

It was a response to "emsz" as she reported the thread due to the fact she took offence to it.

Does this mean it is only ok to use pictures of women if I am trying to sell stuff? I have some stuff I need to sell soon.

[quote=konabunny said]You're railing pretty hard at those people who are offended by the perv threads and who report them to the mods for that reason. Have we established that any such people actually exist?

If you re-read this thread then you will find that such people do exist.

Does this mean it is only ok to use pictures of women if I am trying to sell stuff?

Does this mean it is only ok to use pictures of women if I am trying to sell stuff? I have some stuff I need to sell soon.

Only if you pay for the privilege. Then the overlords will have limited control...

Nick 😆

I'll make a Paypal donation if my stuff sells then. Any men or women want to volunteer to be exploited for my financial gain?

I am an equal opportunities offender and terms of employment will be equally bad regardless of your age, sex and religion if that sets your mind at ease.

I am an equal opportunities offender and terms of employment will be equally bad regardless of your age, sex and religion if that sets your mind at ease.

having posed in nothing but a tyre mankini and a dapper 'tache to raise lots of money for mens cancer charities, I have no issues with prostituting my self to earn you some cash. How do you want me, draped over a frame with a cheeky wink or holding a bar end and looking all manly and lustful?

Actually that means I may have been viewed as a sexytime object by pervy* men and women.....can i be offended now? 😕

* they would need to be very perverted to see me as a sexytime object 😆

I've just trawled through 3 Pages of this garbage and I still don't know what the **** the one tip is!!

Sorry, realised I missed this gem from earlier:

The kylie (recent) thread wasn't about her music at all.

I wasn't aware she was known for her music.

@tazzymtb, I need to sell some flat bars.

I want something that says "classy, but practical". Can you work with the brief?

Can you work with the brief?

I want something that says "classy, but practical". Can you work with the brief?

easy, I'll mount them to my frontage using some anodised purple bolts in the existing holes(for the retro bike market) and pose firmly grasping the bar, whilst wearing a rapha and nice walz works cap. May convince people that it'll only mount on a retro 150mm stem though 😆

I've just trawled through 3 Pages of this garbage and I still don't know what the **** the one tip is!!

Eat less food.

"talented and gorgeous to boot"

Surely this could include blokes? - but i'd guess the on STW less guys would be condsidered gorgeous...

I think I'd have greater issues with peoples definition of talented tbh.

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I still can't see any bikini clad women?!

Sorry, realised I missed this gem from earlier:

"The kylie (recent) thread wasn't about her music at all."

That was purely to point out to Emsz that the thread wasnt pretending to be anything other than a thread full of nice pictures.

Nobody was trying to pretend to like her music (as it was suggested)

Everybody was being perfectly open and honest, just looking at some nice pictures.

No music was mentioned.

As Emsz said.....

.... Perv by all means, but at least be honest about it.

See - this is where it becomes difficult.
I got banned the other evening on that thread for posting the picture of Monica Bellucci.
No nudity, no boobs, wearing a full length dress - so in no way a "pervy" or even slightly "risque" and certainly SFW, yet post removed during me doing an edit to include Pat Benetar so I got the ban extended as they decided I posted it twice!
For me it's quite simple - overtly racist, porn, etc - fine delete it but really... there was more "NSFW" on the adverts here than that thread and the mods are IMHO heavy handed on this forum with regards to what "they" feel is against their rules.

This accounts for the message I got about posting up some publicity photos for Alison Hannigan, Willow in [i]Buffy, The Vampire Slayer[/i]. I [i]assume[/i] someone got all bent out of shape because one was her in slightly saucy high school girl clothing, a reference to her character, which she was playing when in her twenties, and another in a bikini top. None were NSFW, all had been used loads of times, including on here, by me, in the past. I sadly missed the later part of the female singer thread, I could have posted up a whole bunch, taken by me, of attractive singers on stage, but I guess, because I'm male, and happen to find some singers particularly attractive, some might take offence at what just happens to be a happy coincidence. I don't have to be able to see Laura Marling, Julie Fowlis, Emiliana Torini, The Staves, or Katzenjammer, among many, to enjoy what they do, but it's nice in a live environment to watch attractive people performing music that one enjoys.
Is that so offensive to some people?

For me it's quite simple - overtly [s]racist[/s], porn, etc - fine delete it

racist? Make them a mod

If anyone's interested, I'm now getting adverts for Bon Prix knitted jumper dresses and combat-ready light sabers. Quite scary how accurate the targeted advertising can be!

I reckon some regular bighitter type forumites should get their belly out and write "cotic Soul" or sommat on their bellies in lipstick and upload a photo to the ad bits. that'd be good.

EDIT: I didn't know you could get combat ready lightsabres! where do I sign up?

For me it's quite simple - overtly racist, porn, etc - fine delete it but really... there was more "NSFW" on the adverts here than that thread and the mods are IMHO heavy handed on this forum with regards to what "they" feel is against their rules.

I think it's quite clear that their values only extend as far as their wallet. Paid for adverts depicting racy images of overtly sexualised attractive women are all ok, but dare a forumite post so much as a picture of a woman in a long dress....

Of course, they have limited control on what they show on their website though, so that makes these double standards perfectly ok. Sex sells.

Perhaps if they were serious about this then the "report post" button could also appear under each advert.

I have no useful contribution to make

You've just killed it fourbanger - edit it quick and we may still have some life left in this thread

I don't agree with Emz, but you are an idiot.

Couldn't agree more.

I don't agree with emsz either.

But fourbanger, you are a tool.

C'mon fourbanger, that was out of order - edit it or i guess you are now passed out drunk face first on the floor.

You disagree, but has anyone reported it yet?

You disagree, but has anyone reported it yet?

Yes, for the first time

I may disagree wi him but i've never reported a thread yet nor will i ever, i'm a big boy and can get offended like everyone but i don't throw my toys out the pram in the huff and expect others to appease my sensibilities, unlike many on here. It may be out of order but that's no reason to report it, we're not at school now.

Agree with the chocolatier.

"Is that so offensive to some people?"

You sound pretty offended by it.

People who don't like perv threads: humorless pc douchebags who should stop whining and realize the world doesn't revolve around them. They should htfu if they want to read about yoghurt-knitting.

People who don't like their perv threads being binned: Voltairean martyrs whose multiple whines about the mods' decisions about what's good for the mods should be respected. They should not htfu and go elsewhere for perving.

Congratulations to konabunny for the most cryptic post of the year so far

Think what you like but I'm making a serious point. We're as anonymous as we choose to be here. The reality is the persona we display on here isn't necessarily who we really are. I can be anyone I want to be and get offended about anything.
The real world isn't moderated. If someone offends you on the street, tough shit. Stop being so sensitive and get over it.
No offense meant to emz, just using you as an example. Soz.

Nealglover, my hero!

I may disagree wi him but i've never reported a thread yet nor will i ever, i'm a big boy and can get offended like everyone but i don't throw my toys out the pram in the huff and expect others to appease my sensibilities, unlike many on here. It may be out of order but that's no reason to report it, we're not at school now.

I'm making a serious point

If you wanted to make a serious point, why didnt you make it the first time ?

What you typed in your first post made you sound like a tool.

That's your fault, not mine 🙄

emsz - Member
Perhaps, but women are seen more in our society as objects, not people.

They're really not.

Didn't say it was. I said the agent provocateur advert of her riding the bucking bronco more or less is.

re the talented and gorgeous thread.

I love music, and music threads on here, you can normally find stuff you haven't listened too before, and that's v cool. That thread wasn't about music (otherwise there would have been links) it was about How The Women Looked.

Now, I've said this before in this thread, and I'll say it again, I don't mind nakedness, we are beautiful.I don't care about the kylie thread (she doesn't do it for me, but whatever) beacuse I know what it is, and I can avoid it.

Read the Nicole Cooke rant, she says it better than me.

The real world isn't moderated. If someone offends you on the street, tough shit. Stop being so sensitive and get over it. No offense meant to emz, just using you as an example. Soz.

The real world isn't moderated.

Yes it is.

To a point, and one that's a lot more lenient (and often more consistent) than on here

I would like to see the thread in question (the talented music/arse one) and decide for myself if it offends me. Actually, i'm offended that i wasn't given the opportunity to make that call. Who do i complain to?

Euro - Member
I would like to see the thread in question (the talented music/arse one) and decide for myself if it offends me. Actually, i'm offended that i wasn't given the opportunity to make that call. Who do i complain to?

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/talented-and-gorgeous-to-boot

Looks like Emzs went well out of her way to be offended by that. In fact, that's quite a dedication to being offended by inoffensive things

I do LOLz at people who accuse others of being offended by proxy when being informed they're being cocks.

Good job you're such a paragon of virtue then, eh?

You seem bothered zokes. So I won't take your comment personally. I'm sure you'll take it back when you're not so fighty. (Unless you [i]weren't[/i] being sarcastic, in which case, of course, no worries.)

Sorry - missed the emoticon:

🙄

You can take it personally now

Ah bless. Don't worry, a_a and Piggie might be up soon and you can have a fight with them. Aren't there any forums in Oz where you could work this kind of stuff out during the day? Or are they better at not being professionally offended down there?

Had a good day cycling actually, and watched the tour down under yesterday. Things going well down here, thanks for asking 🙂

I'm glad you're out there. Enjoying yourself. Just such a pity you can only get on here at pretty unsocial hours. 😛

I should add - it's Invasion Day here, so public holiday. But just like the UK, it rained! I now have to wash my bike for the first time in nearly three years #firstworldsouthernhemisphereproblems

hammyuk - Member

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/talented-and-gorgeous-to-boot

Thanks. Now I can see what all the fuss is about. No wonder it was pulled - it's disgusting and i'm disgusted.

For the life of me, i can't see the problem. But then i'm not a nutter, so phew!

The ad'currently over on the right:

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Anyone offended? Not me, but irritated that my son has no doubt been using my computer for stuff I've asked him not to. Porn is fine but the games come crammed with nasties.

So what is the 1 tip for a sexy stomach?

[i]So what is the 1 tip for a sexy stomach? [/i]

Choose your parents well ?

Choose your parents well ?

If only that were possible.

[img] http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/13589572000163424070 [/img]

Blatantly sexist and provocative eh (choose your own smiley)

[img] http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/17696417561817258403 [/img]

More femdom filth from the banner up top

Missed. The. Point.

But as I've said on many threads I don't really have a problem with sexy images. It's the violent ones that offend me. From over there>>>>>>>

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I am sure we know it, but the biggest problem here is consistency. Whilst some get half clad laddies (lucky) some get sheds (maybe not so lucky) some of us get marking tape (me, why??)
It was never anyone intention to offend, form, style, function is one's own interpretation (why do we have so many wheel sizes)
But if a photo, is not banned in the first place, how can one say it is banned in another?

Right.

The issue is not with the pictures, it's with the intent behind the pictures.

There is and I think always has been a tendency for MEN to imagine women as simply a place to put one's penis, without considering the woman as a human being. I didn't really understand this at all til I spent a summer working with the council 😯 Now, if a man is talking like this about any pretty woman, then it would be reasonable to see it as a slight against woman-kind.

Now I'm sure there are many women who like to be treated as a sex object, but there are a great many who do not. So when men are behaving as above, it is offensive and a little upsetting.

I think this is down to what could be the underlying issue on which the feminist struggle is based. Most men could overpower most women and treat them as a sex object if they wanted, because on average we are bigger and stronger. I think this results in an underlying tension in many male/female interactions. On my last project at work for instance my two colleages were three inches taller than me, putting me in the unusual position of having to constantly look up at people during the ocnversation. It felt rather strange, and it did make me wonder about the gender balance.

So if you are 5'4 and 9st, and there's a 6'2 15st bloke talking in a very unpleasant way about rough sex, that must surely be quite indimidating.

So when you read a thread full of blokes oohing and aahing over women's looks, I can easily imagine how all the above issues would come to mind. It's all about baggage. I'm sure the majority of middle class STWers are quite enlightened and mostly feminist themselves, but it's important to remember that the readership doesn't know this generally, so whilst you are simply admiring a beautiful face from an aesthetic point of view, this is not always obvious. Especially if read by a woman who might have (or in fact probably has) experienced a lot of negativity in this particular area.

In fact most of the posters here are probably so middle class that they don't see anything wrong at all with what they are doing.

I have skimmed the thread in question, and there are some really beautiful people on it. But given all the unavoidable baggage associated with the act of admiring women in a non-personal context and over the internet, it's perhaps best to steer clear in case you upset someone without meaning to.

It's all well and good to say 'well I should be able to admire women without being considered sexist'. Yes, you should, but you can't, so don't. Simply doing it anyway isn't going to improve the situation.

So what's the intent behind this one, Molgrips. Taken from over there>>>>>>>

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No idea, but it looks like an attempt to associate a desirable image with a product to a certain section of the male population.

Very well put.
But
"come to mind" that is subjective, and who, can moderate that?

Do the people at STW realise the site attacts such quality advertising I wonder?

And another, this time the side and the top banner (no not you Mark! ) 😉

[img] http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/17785150051149375751 [/img]

"come to mind" that is subjective, and who, can moderate that?

No-one. That's why tact and sensitivity are required. It's the internet, and what we write could be taken in a number of different ways.

Whats wrong with adverts for sheds (Garden office for the middle classes). I had a good perv around that advertisers site and got a little excited at what sort of shed you can actually get in your garden.

I'm going to give it one more go.

I really really don't care what you choose to look at, what I got pee'd off about was the fact that yet again on a thread pretending to be about music ( talented) they were actually discussing looks ( gorgeous) . Male musicians wouldn't be talked about like that. Men can't seem to see past whether a woman is "pretty" or not, doesn't matter if she's a brain surgeon, or whatever, men just seem to go " yeah, whatever, nice tits..." The images on there were just "pretty" women with nothing about their music, no links no albums references nothing.

The point I'm making ( very badly) is if you're going to Perv, then Perv, don't pretend to be admiring those musicians for their music when really, secretly , you just fancy a bit... Ok?

That's why mostly I don't care about the Kyle thread, I know it's not trying to be anything other than pictures of her in her pants ( someone buy that woman some clothes). But just don't dress up your perving as something else.

I'm going to give it one more go.

Male musicians wouldn't be talked about like that

Every group of girls I've taught has contained females with a crush on some star or other. Take That, Boyzone (or however it's spelt). The conversation generally turns around how hunky they are and what it would be like to... .

edukator - the ads are displayed based on your browsing history. Try looking at halfords a couple of times, boom, there it is on the ads here. Interesting to see what you've been looking at

[i]edukator - the ads are displayed based on your browsing history.[/i]

I thought he'd realised that and didn't care 😉

Three of us use the computer. Who do you think is responsible for this over on the right?

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per·vert·ed
/p?r?v?rtid/
Adjective

(of a person or their actions) Characterized by sexually abnormal and unacceptable practices or tendencies.

Why is the aesthetic admiration of the human form perverted?