Aug. 15, 2015
10:12 a.m.
On 8/15/2015 8:40 AM, Matthew Brett wrote:
It's a detail from a pornographic image
One may oppose the image without exaggerating: the original photo was merely erotic, not pornographic. And as for the cropped image that has become a reference standard, it is unobjectionable if culturally archaic. An excess of political correctness is difficult to distinguish from censorship. Just to be clear, I am not trying to make a case for including the image. There may be some case for skimage.data.lena() to fetch the image from the USC-SIPI Image Database http://sipi.usc.edu/database/download.php?vol=misc&img=4.2.04 but I am not trying to make that case either. I am merely addressing an issue of the debasement of language. Cheers, Alan Isaac