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From: rivero@dev8g.mdcbbs.com
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Erotic images on display in the workplace
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.073659.1@dev8g.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 21:03:58 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.155936.12964@aero.org>, Marjorie Panditji <mjm@ahimsa.intel.com> writes:
>
> Actually, my main question was, why look at these type of pictures (GIFs
> or paper, for that matter) at the office?  The "jerk off" comments were pure
> sarcasm (even spelled it out, but some took it seriously).  But I do wonder
> about why people *display* these pictures *in the office* (not why people
> enjoy them in the first place).
>

  For the sake of exposition, let's take this out of the context of
'sexual' pictures.

  My office has photographs of airplanes on the wall. I am a new
pilot, and take a moment now and then to gaze wistfully at the
photographs and dream of flight. There is another gentleman in this
office who is also a pilot. I know, becauser I stopped by to chat
about HIS airplane photographs.

  Down the corridor is a man with a martial arts trophy in his office
so tall it touches the acoustic tile!

  Across from him is a lady who loves Japan, and has maps, pictures
and painted screens decorating her office.

  In my office at home, the walls are decorated with autographed
pictures of all the film people I have worked with(including one or
two scantily clad actresses).

  In all these cases, these individuals have impressed on their
environment some portion of their identity, because it pleases them to
see it, and allows newcomers an insight into the person who lives in
that cubbyhole.

  Without trying to pass value judgements on anyone, I suspect that
the 'sexual' pictures which are on display are up there for pretty
much the same reasons. It is what happens to be uppermost on their
minds at the time.

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