Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> writes: > Am Dienstag, den 02.12.2014, 23:29 +0100 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES:
>> And offencive (sexist) for 50% of the population the women... > Now it's getting really ridiculous. Gosh, it's a picture of a woman! Er, no, it's not just a picture of a woman. It's a cropped Playboy centerfold. In other words, it's a porn shot (if one from the fairly artistic side of that spectrum) that's been cropped to remove the explicit sexual content. The image itself is one thing; the surrounding context of the image makes it a bit worse. Obviously, in terms of great problems facing the world, this isn't the worst. But having the standard test picture for image software be a porn image does send certain messages, and they're probably not messages that we (by which I mean the general software and tech industry as a whole) actually want to be sending. This is not a problem of Debian's creation, and we can't fix the world, but insofar as we can contribute to not sending those messages, I think that makes the world, and Debian, a better place. Thank you very much to Reinhard for doing the irritating and tedious work of starting to replace it. It feels like a distraction from other work and a thankless task, I know, but small things like this really do make people happier and help people in tiny ways. Software became a bit less off-putting, a bit less locked into a particular model of how genders are "supposed" to interact, and a tiny bit more welcoming. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
