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Re: Censorship issues
At 8:53 AM -0600 10/23/00, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
>Bravo, Dave, and to Gary,
> I am one of those "right wing conservatives",too, that people on this
>list and in America LOVE to vilify as the enemy, and stereotype to the nth
>degree worse than right wings stereotype the liberals. And yet I have
>written a book on the nude, done a major project on the nude, and
>photographed (gasp) fully unclothed men, too, as a female photographer (one
>of them holding a 10 inch tape measure to very blatantly attack the
>stereotype of the well endowed male that Mapplethorpe so very well
>inculcated). Furthermore I even drink upon occasion and smoke cigars! I
>know, it's easier for us all to stereotype our "enemy", but let's quit
>blaming whole segments of culture as being the bad guy and look to
>individuals and even ourselves to blame.
Did I mention that I am not only a devout fundamentalist christian,
but Marie, Queen of Romania as well? Self-applied labels are *fun*.
>
> Furthermore, hasn't Judy Seigel said enough that there are no neutral
>nudes? Nudity is not neutral in the eyes of the artist and in the eyes of
>the viewer. How can we be neutral about exposure of who we are? There is
>always element of psychological risk, expressed and implied, in that. If
>people are outraged by your treatment of the body, if this controversial
>image is, in fact, nude, is that always wrong on their part just because you
>think your image is OK? Usually outrage does not come from just nudity but
>how the body is treated.
And outrage over a photograph of an erect male penis, or
two people having consensual sex, fits this usual case how?
>