<story><title>Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of-jpegs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamleppert</author><text>What’s wrong with female beauty? It’s not like it’s porn or a nude image. I’m not even a straight male but I can still appreciate female beauty and I don’t think it’s sexist. The photo is more artistic than anything. I wonder if the same people who complain about this photo lodge similar complaints when they visit art museums that have female nudity in oil paintings or nude female sculptures?&lt;p&gt;I know nudity and even a slight sexual undertone in anything upsets some people, but I don’t understand why. I think it says something more about the person than our culture. Sexuality is a core part of the human experience and to deny it is to remove that part of our humanity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yawaramin</author><text>Because it&amp;#x27;s not about you. It&amp;#x27;s about the women who see the image, understand its history, and see it as another reminder of how tech is not just male-dominated but thoughtlessly so (having &lt;i&gt;Playboy&lt;/i&gt; issues lying around in the research lab) and where women are literally reduced to objects. From the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “As silly as it sounds, they were surprised she was a real person,” he told me.&lt;p&gt;Women notice stuff like that, I guess.</text></comment>
<story><title>Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of-jpegs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamleppert</author><text>What’s wrong with female beauty? It’s not like it’s porn or a nude image. I’m not even a straight male but I can still appreciate female beauty and I don’t think it’s sexist. The photo is more artistic than anything. I wonder if the same people who complain about this photo lodge similar complaints when they visit art museums that have female nudity in oil paintings or nude female sculptures?&lt;p&gt;I know nudity and even a slight sexual undertone in anything upsets some people, but I don’t understand why. I think it says something more about the person than our culture. Sexuality is a core part of the human experience and to deny it is to remove that part of our humanity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pharmakon</author><text>Personally I’m not bothered, and while the image isn’t pornographic, it is from Playboy which does make it at least porn adjacent. I see it’s use less as a matter of offensiveness or some headfuck of “intersectionality” and more as just immature and unprofessional. Sexuality is great, it’s everywhere, and I think it has literally nothing to do with this issue.&lt;p&gt;I can understand not wanting a Playboy model to be the standard image in a professional setting, especially a setting that is overwhelmingly full of guys.</text></comment>