Half naked women in avatars/signatures

[Answa~]

Thanks for the glass of water, I was really thirsty! And how did the oil work for the car?

 

[Kat]

Agreed guys, but we all know what that quote means. You just have "better" answers than me^^.

 

[Raivyn]

Rationalize it all you want, it does not make it any more appropriate.

 

[Kat]

just fixed a few things to clarify what I think jender has been trying to get at.

Nice, good fixing.

 

[alanon]

YOU GUYS ARE ALL WARPED!!!!!!!!!!

Jen had pictures from a halloween party. The site she was hosting the pictures at offered for you to be able to order the pictures on a mug. I made a comment on that. Fluids are coffee, Hot chocolate (YES I still love that shit) OJ, etc....

Maybe if all you perverts didn't have visions of nakked women dancing through your heads (and sigs), you'd quit putting such connotations on a innocent comment.

I'm thirty now, where's that mug....

 

[Sculli]

Btw - the only reason I was aksed to remove the .gif is because animated .gifs cause lag in forums.

True. Till this thread no one mentioned anything negative about the content of Raivyn's former sig.

 

[Kat]

Rationalize it all you want, it does not make it any more appropriate.

Face it Raivyn. Your chick with her tits hangin' out bouncin' around was NOT appropriate in any way, shape or form. It was offensive to the women on this forum. And that is the bottom line.

Jender's sig is nothing compared to some chick with her tits bouncin' all over the place dancin' with an IPod.

nuff said.

If you boys don't like our opinion, oh well. I do believe I speak for most of the women of qcdn though when I say the above.

 

[Tyrath]

I honestly don't give a crap about either - I would just prefer people remove their heads from the sand and develop some consistency is all.

Revealing clothing = not ok.

Comments about oral sex = ok.

Dancing women = not ok.

Lingerie adds = perfectly acceptable.

I can't be the only person wondering "wtf?" right now.

Btw - the only reason I was aksed to remove the .gif is because animated .gifs cause lag in forums.

Don't care much about the others, but lingerie ads? It has nothing to do with this forum, nor has this forum allowed it, so I dunno why that's even there.

 

[Bajaratt]

My only real problem with Raivyn's sig was how distracting it was when I was trying to read the forums.

As for this whole "let's not hurt the kids" argument going on, how many children(under the age of 13) actually play this game? The answer is not many, and and even smaller number actually visit qcdn with any frequency. Face it, the majority of the people here have at least a textbook knowledge of sex and i'm sure just about all, if not all, have seen much more sexually explicit images, so the sig's aren't harming them by exposing them to something new.

Moreover, this whole thread isn't "about the kids," it's about you. YOU do not like the sig/avatar, and you're using the children as a means to get your way. You're practically forcing people to back you up, because no one wants to hurt kids. It's a fairly common tactic, but it's abusive as hell none the less. It's only a few people that seem to be offended by it, and I can only gauge that by the people posting in this thread against the images, so it's obvious that most people don't care.

Looking at the text vs. picture thing, it's another moot point. Claiming that you can put anything you want in text and it's not nearly as significant as someone putting up a picture is ludicrous. If you're just glancing through the posts; yes, the picture would catch your eye a lot faster, but the words would be just as explicit to someone who's actually reading the boards.

You guys find it offensive, fine. Just please stop acting like it's some kind of travesty and that everyone hates it just as much as you do. I didn't like odon's sig with the almost naked guys, but I didn't cry out against it, I just ignored it. There has been several solutions presented that solves the problem of you seeing the images, but without encroaching on everyone else. It's just like the people who bitch about being /checked in game but never turn on that filter so they never see it. You can solve your own problem, but you don't want to and instead you're just bitching about it.

All that being said, I don't really care one way or the other if sig's like Raivyn's was get banned. They're not that common and they're not a major part of these boards. If it's a hardcore porn picture, then yes, you have a point but for the most part you're overreacting.

 

[Raivyn]

Face it Raivyn. Your chick with her tits hangin' out bouncin' around was NOT appropriate in any way, shape or form. It was offensive to the women on this forum. And that is the bottom line.

Jender's sig is nothing compared to some chick with her tits bouncin' all over the place dancin' with an IPod.

nuff said.

If you boys don't like our opinion, oh well. I do believe I speak for most of the women of qcdn though when I say the above.

I beg to differ.

And when everyone is done talking about the children, I'd like to point out that jender is complaining because she personally has a problem with it objectifying women.

But her sig is not a problem.

I can't be the only one who sees the glaring inconsistency.

 

[Sculli]

As for this whole "let's not hurt the kids" argument going on, how many children(under the age of 13) actually play this game? The answer is not many, and and even smaller number actually visit qcdn with any frequency.

QCDN doesn't allow users under the age of 13.
Of course people are able to lie during registration, but officially there should be no users under the age of 13.

 

[jender]

I beg to differ.

And when everyone is done talking about the children, I'd like to point out that jender is complaining because she personally has a problem with it objectifying women.

But her sig is not a problem.

I can't be the only one who sees the glaring inconsistency.

Yes you are.

How is my sig objectifying women? Alanon is my friend, he made a comment about ME that I found amusing. WTF does that have to do w/ objectifying women as a whole?

 

[Sneakypants]

Just please stop acting like it's some kind of travesty and that everyone hates it just as much as you do. I didn't like odon's sig with the almost naked guys, but I didn't cry out against it, I just ignored it.
...for the most part you're overreacting.

/clap Baj. I agree.


Best advice has been from Jen..."Take it for what you will."


Why can't we all just do that and then shut the fuck up?


I'm just glad this thread is thug infested.

 

[Raivyn]

Well said baj.

Again I'll say that I don't care one way or the other - it was good for a while but it was time for it to come down, fine. Just don't get how it induced armageddon.

 

[Raivyn]

My only real problem with Raivyn's sig was how distracting it was when I was trying to read the forums.

As for this whole "let's not hurt the kids" argument going on, how many children(under the age of 13) actually play this game? The answer is not many, and and even smaller number actually visit qcdn with any frequency. Face it, the majority of the people here have at least a textbook knowledge of sex and i'm sure just about all, if not all, have seen much more sexually explicit images, so the sig's aren't harming them by exposing them to something new.

Moreover, this whole thread isn't "about the kids," it's about you. YOU do not like the sig/avatar, and you're using the children as a means to get your way. You're practically forcing people to back you up, because no one wants to hurt kids. It's a fairly common tactic, but it's abusive as hell none the less. It's only a few people that seem to be offended by it, and I can only gauge that by the people posting in this thread against the images, so it's obvious that most people don't care.

Looking at the text vs. picture thing, it's another moot point. Claiming that you can put anything you want in text and it's not nearly as significant as someone putting up a picture is ludicrous. If you're just glancing through the posts; yes, the picture would catch your eye a lot faster, but the words would be just as explicit to someone who's actually reading the boards.

You guys find it offensive, fine. Just please stop acting like it's some kind of travesty and that everyone hates it just as much as you do. I didn't like odon's sig with the almost naked guys, but I didn't cry out against it, I just ignored it. There has been several solutions presented that solves the problem of you seeing the images, but without encroaching on everyone else. It's just like the people who bitch about being /checked in game but never turn on that filter so they never see it. You can solve your own problem, but you don't want to and instead you're just bitching about it.

All that being said, I don't really care one way or the other if sig's like Raivyn's was get banned. They're not that common and they're not a major part of these boards. If it's a hardcore porn picture, then yes, you have a point but for the most part you're overreacting.

reposted for more viewing

 

[jender]

Good Lord, one person backs you up and you need to repost it on the page it was originally posted on.

I see I am dealing w/ a genius.

Night all - good talking w/ you.

 

[Raivyn]

Yes you are.

How is my sig objectifying women? Alanon is my friend, he made a comment about ME that I found amusing. WTF does that have to do w/ objectifying women as a whole?

Explain how my sig was objectifying women in a way more terrible than everything else that goes on across pop-culture America today.

A guy has a simple image in his sig and all of a sudden he is a chauvinist pig who objectifies women. "Take it for what you will".

 

[Kat]

And again, I hope someday you boys have daughters and you go to a gaming site and there will be YOUR daughter with her tits hangin' out dancin' with an IPod.

OHHHH to be a fly on wall when said daughter comes home that day. ahahhhahahhah.

 

[Raivyn]

Good Lord, one person backs you up and you need to repost it on the page it was originally posted on.

I see I am dealing w/ a genius.

Night all - good talking w/ you.

actually its not on the same page - at least on my computer, didn't want you to skip a great many fantastic points being made by baj just because the conversation raced past.

Hooray for thinking you win a discussion with personal insults.

 

[Sabia]

In terms of QCDN this thread has been pretty far from Armageddon.

Everyone's kept the language civil, there have been good arguments from both sides and I do think this was a necessary thread.

A lot of the girls playing games (Ie here) aren't your typical 15 year old sluts that you're refferring to, we're a little outside the norm and yeah may take a little more offense to something like your sig than some other women would.

I don't belive in objectifying anybody and yeah your sig did that, your sig had no personality, no name, no respect and was just a set of bouncing boobs. It's your sig and you're free to do what you want with it but you do have to expect some back lash from something like that. You could take it in stride but don't get all defensive and be like "WTF I don't understand why you girls don't like my sig." Just like you have the right to post what you want (within reason) in your sig, we have the right to tell you what we think of it.