*shakes fist at Invisible Stalker* 
It's OK, the Swordmage forgives you. 
It's actually feminism, not puritanism, Jack99, and I'm from and live in California. I like 
as much as the next guy, but that particular image offends me where, say, cleavage in a bikini doesn't - Not because 'gah cover that stuff up', especially since they're already covered, but because of the 'Got Milk?' slogan being plastered against them. It's a famous slogan for cow milk, and thus it's directly comparing the woman to a cow, presenting her as livestock and a piece of meat to be owned. That's why it bugs me when the same breast-grabbing pose in a tiny bikini wouldn't. (The bikini version of same pose, while still mildly exploitive, would also carry with it a connotation of female sexual power. I'm also annoyed, for the record, by that one gamer shirt that plasters pictures of d20s with the 20 face up across the area of the nipples with the slogan 'Yes, they're natural'. It's unneeded and there's nothing wrong with boob jobs anyway.)
Then again, after we passed Prop 8 last year, California is looking damned puritanical, so maybe you aren't too far off on your assesment of what kind of state I live in.
It's OK, the Swordmage forgives you. It's actually feminism, not puritanism, Jack99, and I'm from and live in California.
I like as much as the next guy, but that particular image offends me where, say, cleavage in a bikini doesn't - Not because 'gah cover that stuff up', especially since they're already covered, but because of the 'Got Milk?' slogan being plastered against them. It's a famous slogan for cow milk, and thus it's directly comparing the woman to a cow, presenting her as livestock and a piece of meat to be owned. That's why it bugs me when the same breast-grabbing pose in a tiny bikini wouldn't. (The bikini version of same pose, while still mildly exploitive, would also carry with it a connotation of female sexual power. I'm also annoyed, for the record, by that one gamer shirt that plasters pictures of d20s with the 20 face up across the area of the nipples with the slogan 'Yes, they're natural'. It's unneeded and there's nothing wrong with boob jobs anyway.) Then again, after we passed Prop 8 last year, California is looking damned puritanical, so maybe you aren't too far off on your assesment of what kind of state I live in.
