Posted by sandebert 1 day ago
Between the funny/silly/cool stuff one day I posted a picture of a sculpture resembling a feminine silhouette made of bicycle chains (can't find the picture online, most probably it was from Seo Young-Deok). I thought it was really cool how the artist used the chains and found their "plasticity" to create surfaces.
It wasn't the first time I posted "art-sy" stuff; I recall posting a picture of Alicja Kwade's "Journey without arrival" (think a warped steel road bicycle).
This was around 10 years ago but I still can recall how some people there called me names and everything beyond because I was a "pervert" or something like that because I dared to post a picture resembling a naked woman. Mods ended locking the post but didn't removed it.
But then when that same people made mildy xenophobic/racist comments against me out of nowhere (before of after that incident), nobody bat an eye.
Marianne has TWO naked breasts with BOTH nipples visible. And she is not shaved.
When I was a teenager in the 80's in France, we had on Sunday morning on TV a fitness show (exercises to follow at home). The end featured the two leading ladies taking a shower in full view. We were all very much into fitness then.
- The show IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15546970/
- The ending: https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/i05053347/generiqu...
As for this show: try to sing the "tu tu tu tu" music of the closing credits, everyone 50-60 will immediately understand. If you want to show off your culture, you can mention the Canal+ movies on Saturday at midnight - the encoding was weird: you could not understand the sound, but with some experience you could watch the movie :)
Ahhhh, good times :) (as a 14 yo I learned quickly about electronics to be able to automate the TV switch off when the parents were coming too close)
NB: the link you provided is to the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the official national body for preservation of French TV and movies. It is a good thing they preserved that one - not for the nudes but to show that times were very different in the 80's
Actually an awful lot of official seals are hideous designs. You'd think they'd try to do better than that.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/04/18/texas-fe... https://www.texasobserver.org/trumps-texas-tycoons/
While Virtus has one breast exposed on the obverse, Libertas, Aeternitas, Ceres are fully clothed on the reverse.
That seems a perineum of difference.
Banned: officially or legally prohibit (something), to forbid (= refuse to allow) something, especially officially, to prohibit, esp officially, from action, display, entrance, sale, etc; forbid.
This and similar can be found in the Cambridge dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary, the Merriam-Webster, the Collins, et al.
"Officially prohibit" is what the Lamar CISD did via their Board Policy Manual that was passed and adopted on the 19th of November 2024 via point 10. of their Library Materials Collection Development policy:
No library materials used in elementary schools shall contain depictions or descriptions of sexual acts or stimulations of such acts implied or otherwise. This includes explicit or non-explicit written descriptions, depictions or illustrations of sexual acts, except for the purposes of teaching students (as may be approved by parents) to avoid and report molestation. No material in elementary school libraries shall include visual depictions or illustrations of frontal nudity;
Not only _banned_, according to multiple reports the seal was also _expurgated_ by the school board along with a section about Virginia from its online learning platform used by 3rd-5th graders (eg: https://www.txftrp.org/censorship_tx_even_state_flags_arent_... for one such source)
See: https://pol.tasb.org/PolicyOnline/PolicyDetails?key=481&code...
You were factually incorrect in your claim that "They didn't ban it." ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734863 )
You were factually incorrect in your limited definition of "Banned" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735102 )
You have also apparently failed to read and certainly failed to heed the HN user guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
These are all simple things that can be improved upon.
The doublethink in believing that breasts are harmful to children is really, really strong.