I may have been over-the-top being hyperbolic by calling them Psycho Breastfeeding Mom Scream queens, but well -- they're being over the top with "It's all natural! It's my RIGHT!"
No, it's not your right. You hit "I agree" when you chose to make your LJ, which means you said you'd abide by the TOS for LJ.
And the boycotting and the staying offline and the "I'll delete my LJ for a week/30 days" is not doing anything but putting fresh paint over the portrait of women over tantrum-throwing histrionics.
And yes, it's petty to tantrum about the default. Especially because the people are allowed to have their icons -- just not as default. I don't see why that's oppressive that they can't have anything not work safe on the default. They couldn't have somebody getting curbstomped. Or somebody getting shot or any number of other things that are NSFW.
The decision wasn't made solely from common sense. Law, too. Nudity -- any nudity -- is still against obscenity laws in some states and countries [though countries is more questionable these days] -- so SixApart had to take that in mind.
And that's what gets me. They don't think there's anything wrong with saying "Since your rules suck we demand to be exempt from them."
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Date: 2006-06-09 03:07 am (UTC)I may have been over-the-top being hyperbolic by calling them Psycho Breastfeeding Mom Scream queens, but well -- they're being over the top with "It's all natural! It's my RIGHT!"
No, it's not your right. You hit "I agree" when you chose to make your LJ, which means you said you'd abide by the TOS for LJ.
And the boycotting and the staying offline and the "I'll delete my LJ for a week/30 days" is not doing anything but putting fresh paint over the portrait of women over tantrum-throwing histrionics.
And yes, it's petty to tantrum about the default. Especially because the people are allowed to have their icons -- just not as default. I don't see why that's oppressive that they can't have anything not work safe on the default. They couldn't have somebody getting curbstomped. Or somebody getting shot or any number of other things that are NSFW.
The decision wasn't made solely from common sense. Law, too. Nudity -- any nudity -- is still against obscenity laws in some states and countries [though countries is more questionable these days] -- so SixApart had to take that in mind.
And that's what gets me. They don't think there's anything wrong with saying "Since your rules suck we demand to be exempt from them."