Babes of Gencon Gallery

[mistergone]

I think this is a non-issue. All aspects of society have something like this. There's nothing wrong with liking pictures of pretty girls. Now granted, no one really wants ENWorld to be exactly like "all aspects of society" and no one certainly wants everything from society here... But I don't find this offensive at all. And I find a lot of things offensive. I don't think this is at all negative in any way.

 

[The Allamistako]

Just for the record, my girlfriend LOVED these pics...

-Alla

 

[BrooklynKnight]

i have the 2001 folder hidden till its done, there are a lot more

 

[Larry Fitz]

I think there is a huge difference in Sean taking a picture (or his girlfriend Willow) and saying "Hey would you mind if I put this up on my website?" and then taking those same pictures and putting them up on a high traffic site like this one. I'm not sure why we need an album that mirrors Sean's site on EnWorld. Certainly if it was an album of great photographs with some sort of relevance that would be one thing, but the overriding theme seems to be as the title so rudely puts it, "Babes of GenCon." To tout the fact that most of them are clothed seems to miss the point to me. It is one thing to have fine art that attempts to speak to some sort of exultative spark in the human soul, it is quite another to have a collection of medium to poor quality snapshots of women who were at or near the convention. The picture of the "russian" girl seems to have been taken in the public walkway between the convention center and my hotel, which led to a few other places as well and she may not have been attending the con. If this is to be a collection of snapshots of women at GenCon I think the bandwith could be better spent without objectifying women and thereby making some members of our virtual community uncomfortable .

My 2 copper pieces...

 

[BOZ]

*shrug* it's harmless, unless you're sensitive. it's perhaps worth a look, but that's about it.

now, i can see where morrus and some other posters are coming from... there *are* sensitive people out there, after all, and they may give morrus a hard time for this. maybe a very hard time. so, although i personally don't think it's necessary, i wouldn't blame him if he felt the need to get rid of it.

 

[Green Knight]

Re: Re: Or it could be....

Yes, there is also their ass ...

*ducks*

FILTHY BASTARD!!!

You beat me to it...

 

[Zander]

I don't really see why the gallery or its title are objectionable. If someone took a picture of me and posted it in an online photo album called "Hunks of UK GenCon", I'd be flattered (I'd also suggest they had their eyes tested, but that's a different matter). If the gallery had been disparaging, I could understand the offence, but the gallery and its title are complimentary. What's the problem?

 

[Celtavian]

Re

I don't really get it either. The only person I sympathize with is Morrus because he has business interests in mind. I can understand why he would want to control the image of the site.

Other than that, a woman being called a "babe" is hardly derogatory. Maybe some of the other comments are off-color, but "babe". c'mon now, stop being too damned sensitive.

Men have always, and always will have terms to describe a pretty woman. The day they don't is the day there are no pretty women left, and that would be a sad day indeed.

 

[Gez]

To be more PC, this should be titled "Femally-gendered esthetically advantaged persons wearing costumes in RPG conventions". That way, you'll be sure noone will find it sexist or objectizing women -- PC talk is the most efficient erotism-killer there is; it turn a snapshot of a pretty girl into a bland and boring array of pixel. Trust me, it works -- in campaign we used it against a bunch of satyrs, and they were instantly reduced to ashes like a band of kobold skeletons turned by an epic cleric.

A warning should also be included saying these images are not recommended to an audience below age 90. Just to be more safe.

 

[CrusaderX]

I've never been to Gencon, but I've been to plenty of comic conventions, and have seen plenty of scantily-clad ladies at these shows. And every single one gave off the impression that they loved the attention that their costumes (or lack thereof) were causing. These girls weren't shy in the least.

If someone of either gender wears something at a con to consciously attract attention, and then they actually (*gasp!*) attract attention, it would be absolutely ludicrous to be offended by such attention.

The girls definitely shouldn't be degraded. But I don't see the act of picture posting as being degrading when these ladies chose to dress like this for the sake of drawing attention to themselves and/or their product to begin with.