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Originally posted by Reeka:
It does disturb me that some people are all for nudity if the people are young and good-looking. In my opinion, it is either natural and good for everybody or it isn't for anybody. Again, if you were used to it, you would think nothing of it.
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Reeka, good post, but especially this bit. I was biting my lip yesterday and decided to let it slide, but I have to make some comments.
I know people just say those things in jest, thinking it's "cool". I mean, whenever I see nudity discussed, it is inevitable that people will start with the "only if their not butugly and young and girlz hehehe" (does my spelling convey what I think about such comments? [img]tongue.gif[/img] )
Hello people, that kind of commentary is getting old! [img]graemlins/yawn.gif[/img]
Funny how some people cannot discuss a topic like this without displaying exactly the kind of giggly or repressed behaviour that is still attached to nudity.
Anyway, I find it weird that apart from Reeka, no one fell over that comment. To me, it's only a small step away from "ugly people shouldn't be allowed to show themselves AT ALL". How is that different from "fat people shouldn't be allowed to visit a beach", "black people not allowed on this bus"..... yes, I am exaggerating, of course, but the point I'm trying to make is that you're discriminating when you say "young/pretty/bisexual people should be allowed to go naked, old/ugly/fat people shouldn't". Hellooo, everybody is naked underneath their clothes.
This type of response demonstrates precisely the weird attitude towards nudity that people still have. I'm not saying people can't have a preference for young or pretty. I happen to prefer looking at my boyfriend to looking at an elderly guy, duh!
But there's a difference between preference and saying "such and such should be FORBIDDEN to do that"
Oh, and I'm not even going to go into the problem of who decides what's ugly -judging by which stars are popular I probably would find many of these "attractive" people unattractive myself. I would feel pretty rotten if this "pretty people only" rule was adopted - I'm not at all happy with how I look sometimes, and would not feel comfortable on the beach if I feared the "bikini police" was filtering out anyone that "could be offensive to the eyes". Beauty's a subjective thing.
Oh and BTW, I'm not at all for adopting nudity - I like my clothes and yes, especially in the winter in some countries, you'd be crazy not to wears your wools
. Just saying people shouldn't be so hung up on the issue... as I said before, there's a time and place for nudity.
(Magik - agree 100%?? [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] should I be insulted or flattered??
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[ 06-19-2003, 05:45 AM: Message edited by: Melusine ]