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From: dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.EDU (Daniel Zabetakis)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Viewing Gifs
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Date: 12 Jun 91 18:50:06 GMT
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Reply-To: dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis)
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In article <1991Jun11.155757.17816@aero.org> mjm@ahimsa.intel.com (Marjorie Panditji) writes:
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>On a more serious and curious note:
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>Does anyone know why people display these pictures at the office?

   It may be because the workplace is the only place they have access
to these things. I'm a grad student, and my only access to computers
is the various public areas in my department. I agree that it is very
bad to display these pictures in an area where others are expected to
work. I find that I have no trouble viewing them at my convienince
without letting anyone else see them. If you see them displayed, it's
because someone wants you to see it.

   Of course, my immediate coworkers have all seen many of these
pictures.  That would be six women and two men. They all showed a
natural curiosity when they heard that such things existed. In fact,
one of them who hadn't seen any before came to me yesterday while I
was working on the computer and said "I want to see your pornography".
Fine.

   No, I do not jerk off at the office. I can't say for sure why
people want computer images like this. Of course, on an iris the
resolution can be quite good. And as I always say: pornography expands
to fill the space alloted for everything else.

DanZ