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Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by mox@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the reason this is an issue is because it's pornographic. It's because it indicates a certain opinion that some people in the field had/have. Even in professional academic papers they were using a pornographic image of a woman, which shows their opinion of women is just as object to lust after.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

I wouldn't say that it necessarily expresses a certain opinion towards women. I think a lot of people used it just because that's how it's done. It's a piece history, a "fun" tradition. A lot of people didn't even knew that this was taken from a pornographic magazine.

However, thinking critically about it and considering a lot of good points, it's surely not "fun" anymore and I also think it's better to stop this.