--- On Wed, 18/5/11, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > From: Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> > Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia > Commons > To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" > <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Wednesday, 18 May, 2011, 15:23
> No, the image had political content, read policy for > Commons, as an > allegory of Liberty. Bare breasts, although usually > somewhat smaller > breasts, are standard in images of Liberty, at least > French, or European > ones, see File:1672 Gérard de Lairesse - Allegory of the > Freedom of > Trade.jpg I am sure the editor who said "I like her big tits" had that political message in mind. > You keep saying, "just because it has tits in it". That is > specious. See > the author's note on the description of the image, "Author: > Niabot, > because commons should stay free“ I have honestly not seen Niabot claim that he was trying to riff on traditional bare-breasted representations of Liberty. The only person I have seen make that claim is you. Even if true, the question is whether the artistic, historic and educational merit of this particular riff on the Liberty figure warrant featuring this image. In my opinion, they do not, and I honestly suspect any of these concerns were way over the heads of those who voted for it. Niabot has a recent habit of signing his images with a political tag line. The same "because commons should stay free" tag line is present in this close-up of the cat in the image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version_(kitty_crop).jpg Here (*deservedly* a featured picture by him), he says: “Niabot, because wikimedia commons lost his roots”. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anime_Girl.png Personally I disagree with the statement, as the roots of Commons are not manga, or sites like DeviantArt, but in this case the image is deservedly featured. The same "commons has lost its roots" tag line is also on these images: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dojikko.png http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Futanari.png I don't think the author's tag line affects image quality one way or the other. Andreas _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
