Offensive Avatars

[leggy]

Careful Swift^, that was a reasonable, well thought out and intelligent post. I have to agree though. I have no negative feelings towards said avatars I just find it a pain in the arse to scroll quickly past them when browsing at work.

 

[nath]

Is there a way to ignore specific avatars? Obviously you can do it in firefox with the adblock extension, but something that the forum does for you would be handy.

 

[Skyler]

I do seem to remember one annoying breast related avatar but it was more the repeated animation that annoyed me... there are a couple of animating avatars with annoying flashing colours and other things which do tend to get annoying and draw attention to them :/

 

[xane]

Is there a way to ignore specific avatars? Obviously you can do it in firefox with the adblock extension, but something that the forum does for you would be handy.

You could ignore the user

 

[yaruar]

I don't really find breasts offensive myself. I have a pair. Oh, and if they were akin to a vagina, penis, etc, no way would I breastfeed in public, which is becoming pretty socially acceptable nowadays.

When I was at uni, a student had her tits out for an entire day and wasn't arrested.

I think titties, real or fake, are much prettier and less offensive than a huge pair of hairy, saggy bollocks, and I'm female and straight. Just a personal opinion.

In the uk at least there is no law against going topless for men or women under the decency laws.

As for the other thing, my hairy saggy nuts are a thing of beauty and should be worshipped. I feel discriminated against, these are objects of great power, they are the givers of life and the vulnerable point of most men both physically and emotionally.

Come on men, fight for your right to show your nads, we need a revolution!

 

[Will]

As for the other thing, my hairy saggy nuts are a thing of beauty and should be worshipped. I feel discriminated against, these are objects of great power, they are the givers of life and the vulnerable point of most men both physically and emotionally.

Come on men, fight for your right to show your nads, we need a revolution!

Despite the probable sarcasm which was in this post, I agree with yaruar's sentiments. Why is the nude female form regarded as a thing of beauty, when my genitalia is derided as ugly? There is a definate bias in the media about this.

 

[Lazarus]

Despite the probable sarcasm which was in this post, I agree with yaruar's sentiments. Why is the nude female form regarded as a thing of beauty, when my genitalia is derided as ugly? There is a definate bias in the media about this.

"3 week old chicken in Sainsbury's" springs to mind

 

[Mazling]

If my avatar offends, feel free to ignore. Apathy is the solution to apathy, right ?

 

[yaruar]

Despite the probable sarcasm which was in this post, I agree with yaruar's sentiments. Why is the nude female form regarded as a thing of beauty, when my genitalia is derided as ugly? There is a definate bias in the media about this.

it's all a very recent phenomena too, all rather odd that in these supposedly enlightened times we have become scared of the potential beauty of the naked male form.

the media is at least partially to blame, although it's a wider issue than that. Although i'd push that one further, in modern society it's not just the naked female form that's acceptable, but a very narrowly fetishised varient of the female form which is acceptable to show in public. GOd forbid those breasts in teh avatars/pictures aren't high, full, round and perky (through surgery or radical airbrushing...)

 

[xane]

They're talking about testicles not tentacles.

 

[TdC]

"3 week old chicken in Sainsbury's" springs to mind

strange, my gf said the exact same thing o0

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Maybe a prevention of moving gif avatars?

I don't think there would be a problem with breast avatars, it's more the repeated animation of exposing that seems to be the unsuitable part for the boards.

 

[adams901]

Dont forget, you also should be respecting peoples copyright with respect to photographs.

I think you will find 90% of avatars on this forum infringe copyright.

As for tits, I have no problem with them, but then i'm male so I wouldnt .

 

[Shovel]

I'm indifferent one way or another on the breasts issue, though I tend to Firefox+Adblock them due to their irritating animation.

I just want add some support for Swifts suggestion of non-animating avatars In fact, since the avatars are spat out of a php script anyway, you could even make animation a user preference..

 

[Wazzerphuk]

In fact, since the avatars are spat out of a php script anyway, you could even make animation a user preference..

If it's possible to include it as a user preference, this would be great!

 

[Louster]

What! But what's the point of a non-walking lemming?

 

[]AC[dRuM]

The forums 'rules / ethos / bible' are regularly flouted all the time.... mainly by older members being honest. (post 21 years of age, although this is questionable at times ..lol )

 

[xane]

* votes for animated GIF ban

 

[Frizz]

But then TdC's subtle throb would be no more!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

But then TdC's subtle throb would be no more!

Never noticed before!

PS Louster your avatar rules, damn you for being the exception.

 

[~Yuckfou~]

Are the offending avatars the bouncy anime style avatar and the generously endowed girl in a tee shirt walking?
If that is the case I'm amazed. One is a cartoon ffs, the other shows no nudity.
Those offended should go and live in the southern states of the US, or some represive arab country.
If the problem is animated gifs, that is a completely different arguement.

In my opinion if you don't like what you see (assuming it is within the bounds of common decency and legal) then you shouldn't be here. This isn't WomansOwn.com. Its a forum for gamers, who like it or not are primarily male, and primarily of a sexually active age.

If you don't want your kids seeing the stuff here you should use parental controls, its your responsibilty not FW or its users.

 

[yaruar]

If you don't want your kids seeing the stuff here you should use parental controls, its your responsibilty not FW or its users.

In which case I demand the right to be allowed to have cocks in my avatar, if we are allowed to show sexualised images of breasts, I want the right to have cocks too, and ladies bits!

 

[granny]

What I don't like about the avatars in question (if they're the ones I think they are) is that they're just tits. No face. Is that all women are to you? A pair of breasts?

That's it though, I just don't like the avatars. I'm not grossly offended or anything.

 

[mr.Blacky]

Don't really care about avatar's, the one thing that is bothering me a bit is that the original poster seems to want to other people's avatar's changed because his was.
As for the discusion why women's bodies are considered more beautiful, most men would rather watch 2 women make out then 2 men make out.

 

[jaba]

So if were arguing about animated avatars, do people want me to get rid of the tiger??

 

[nath]

God no.. it rules. If you get rid of the tiger I'll throw/stab things.

 

[Will]

Are the offending avatars the bouncy anime style avatar and the generously endowed girl in a tee shirt walking?
If that is the case I'm amazed. One is a cartoon ffs, the other shows no nudity.
Those offended should go and live in the southern states of the US, or some represive arab country.
If the problem is animated gifs, that is a completely different arguement.

In my opinion if you don't like what you see (assuming it is within the bounds of common decency and legal) then you shouldn't be here. This isn't WomansOwn.com. Its a forum for gamers, who like it or not are primarily male, and primarily of a sexually active age.

If you don't want your kids seeing the stuff here you should use parental controls, its your responsibilty not FW or its users.

I'm not offended, I'd just prefer tits to be somewhere else, rather than in avatars. I'm sure a fairly large number of people browse from work, and it is annoying for me to disable all avatars, just because I don't want some on my screen or in my web cache.

 

[~Yuckfou~]

I'm not offended, I'd just prefer tits to be somewhere else, rather than in avatars. I'm sure a fairly large number of people browse from work, and it is annoying for me to disable all avatars, just because I don't want some on my screen or in my web cache.

I also browse from work. What kind of employer would have a problem with cartoon boobs, or a girl in a tee shirt? Its not porn we are talking about, when nudity is in a thread it is usually well marked NWS.
Sorry, but I really don't see the problem.

 

[Yoni]

Ok time for a rant hehehe


1] I am female and a gamer
2] I do not find female nudity of any kinda offensive, infact it should be encouraged. Why I here you ask:

a] The british society seem to make nudity of any kind a taboo. A child growing up in a repressed family unit / schooling environment 9 times out of 10 will have issues as a young adult about themselves and / or other people. These issues / feelings of being repressed usually have an impact on their intimate relationships. They ususally swing either to being so inward and shy and uncomfortable about their naked self that their intimate relationship is a non starter, their partner gets fucked off at the lack of attention of a sexual nature and looks elsewhere. The other scenario is they end up wanting to experience all things of all sexual nature because they have discovered they are repressed and can't hold down a sexual relationship with one person.

b] The female breast is a beautiful thing it is natural that the male (and alot of women) like to look at them. I really can not see how a pair of bouncing boobs is offensive. However Yaruar your baitch tits are so put them aweh plz

c] As for younger children seeing them I refer to point a

d] The penis and especially the testicles (sorry Yaruar and Will) are the ugliest things ever and Lazarus hit the spot with the 3 week old chicken (although i ususally use last chicken in a butchers shop). I do not know why I find it ugly to look at after all for the most part I am hetrosexual but to "look" at male genitalia doesn't do it for me.

3] If the avatars are too much for the office do as I do. I turn them off when I get to work and turn them back on again when I leave work. Its not too difficult is it?

4] Ala if you wanted to get this lot to really understand what you are saying you went about it completely the wrong way. Breasts are great we are lucky we don't have to find pictures to drool at as we have our own to play with when we choose.

 

[MYstIC G]

My 2 pence, not that it matters.

I'm afraid mine is "this thread is shit".

1. If you browse at work and you complain that the avatars get you spotted, i'd suggest that you're more than likely skiving, so shouldn't whinge
2. The "Don't fuck with me" style avatars are far worse