2007-03-25 01:51:50 · 11 answers · asked by Invisible_Flags 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My avatar is sexually explicit? really? It is a statue of Dionysus! How is that sexually explicit!
We are all naked under our clothes! Gods are usually depicted in the nude. There is nothing lewd about it.
2007-03-25 01:59:27 · update #1
That is an odd one...however I want to remark on the avatar. It's great.
Story time everyone!
A friend of mine works in a public art gallery and she has a grandson of about nine or ten years old. On one of there one on one outings she took him to a book store. He wanted a book on Michael Angelo's work. So they asked the salesperson for help. He directed them to the childrens section.
My friend said.."oh no..." so they went to the adult section. The sales clerk braught out a book that was largly text. My friend specified they needed the colour plates!
The clerk querried about that and said he didn't think that that was appropriate for children.
My friend was shocked. (Not so much shocked as.. fired up!)
She proceded to explain to him that this was 'art' and that there was nothing sinful about the human body. The human body is beautiful she told him and baught the book!
Later, when they got back home and her grandson was looking through the book, he asked his grandmother" why all the penises were so small?". Geee..that terrible! LOL! ( I say sarcastically...smile)
I was raised in an art family. I am an artist. I started life drawing when I was twelve with nude and semi-nude models.
I respect people. That was something that was taught to me.
In an art class where there is a nude model for the first time, you can practically draw a line down between the people who were raised to 'respect' the body and those who were taught to 'fear' it.
I am a very modest person. I don't where skimpy cloths and I am actually a little shy. But there is a really important lesson here, especially for the woman and and all the people like her that view the body as something to be feared and as inherently sinful.
I find it particularly ironic that many of these views come from 'reliios' people. Some of the worlds greatest works of art that portray Christ are of him practically nude. LOL! Excuse me but a trip through the churches and cathedrals of Europe would do some of you a great deal of good! LOL! Oh, there is a lot of nudity there. You better watch out!
We live in a society that sexualizes and wxploits the naked body. This is really overplayed to make money by playing on the minds of people that have been raised to view the body in an unhealthy way. WHat happens when you tell them you can't have that cheesecake. You want it more right. Then you may start obsessing about it right! Then it looks even more tantilizing and you start fanticizing about how good that cheese cake is going to taste! OMG!!!!!Do you guys get it yet? NOw they gotchya! By the ....!You feel guilty and boy that is going to cost you a few hail Mary's. Now you gotta sneeke out and buy that cheese cake and hide out somewhere to eat it. There is a lot of money to be made in the cheese cake trade. SSSSSSSSHHHHH!
All this when it was really just a pound cake. hahahaha. Jokes!
There is a huge difference between your avatar and the bucksome bleached blonde I've seen on here sticking her chest out towards the viewer. Too funny. She's OK, it's just that I now wonder if that person has had the same complaint as you. LOL!
I may try to dig up something of my own now and see what happens...
hmmm. Maybe the Extacey of Saint Terrassa. Speculation has it that that artwork was fashioned after a women having an orgasim.
2007-03-25 03:05:14 · answer #1 · answered by Jamie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well perhaps they think like the English did when the Gadsden Flag was created and used in the War for American Independence. Actually, I quite like the phrase as we are all allowed our own personal liberties.
Some will report any answer that strikes them the wrong way; there are a number of over-sensitive here.
Oh, and I like your avatar - I've always had an appreciation for good art.
2007-03-25 08:58:51 · answer #2 · answered by genaddt 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why that should be deleted. In fact I have a tattoo with that slogan in it. I had an answer deleted when I said Saint Joseph is my favorite Saint and another one deleted for saying I had no reason to seek conflicts with Muslims. Some shameful people use that report flag to delete things for ideological reasons and that is really wrong.
2007-03-25 09:00:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know man, after 6 accounts I've gotten used to having my answers violated for no reason. If I don't say anything offensive, they'll just violate me for simple, good-natured remarks, so I might as well be an asshole and violate all of the terms of service I can.That's how I see it anyway.
2007-03-25 08:57:55 · answer #4 · answered by Praetorian 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I didn't delete your answer but your avatar is sexually explicit and really isn't appropriate in a forum where kids may be reading answers. Could you change the avatar to something that is more suitable for family viewing and is not offensive?
Thanks!
2007-03-25 08:56:37 · answer #5 · answered by Searcher 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
That's not offensive. Just another case of Yahoo deleting answers for no reason whatsoever.
2007-03-25 08:56:01 · answer #6 · answered by Ally O 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
lol you can't even see the statue clearly - I think they just don't investigate abuse properly - apparently though "Each abuse report is reviewed by a customer care agent to determine the appropriate action". You can complain here - they actually do get back to you - so we'll find out
http://messages.answers.yahoo.com/answers/forumview?bn=SEA-ViolationsNotice
2007-03-26 06:25:17 · answer #7 · answered by Basil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It implies the other is doing you wrong, and we all know the other should not be doing that...
but it depends on the persons perspective and how enlightened they are.
sexual...
I agree it is not! It is a dark time but the light will rise again.
2007-03-27 02:57:30 · answer #8 · answered by James 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They think your avatar is rude! LOL
Don't change it.
2007-03-27 05:05:20 · answer #9 · answered by Jelena L. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think that dionysos bother the person who tald you that!if he/she has a problem with this statue maybe he/she is inexpert!
2007-03-26 04:28:11 · answer #10 · answered by charlotte 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋