Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: farmerl@handel.cs.colostate.EDU (lisa ann farmer) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Viewing Gifs Message-ID: <15517@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 15 Jun 91 20:09:50 GMT References: <1991Jun11.155757.17816@aero.org> Reply-To: lisa ann farmer Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Lines: 33 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu >| turn-ons in private. Note that I am not asking why people enjoy these >| pictures, I am asking why they enjoy them *at work*. >| >| On the other hand, the motive may be something else. For example, men >| may do it to intimidate women (perhaps to claim their personal >| territory?), and women may do it as "revenge" or to show men how it >| feels to be displayed (or even for the same reasons as men, I don't >| know). Perhaps these pictures are displayed for "artistic" reasons? It may not be the motive but when you are in a "work" situation those GIF's are intimidating to me. It especially makes me tense at night in the lab (I am a student) when I know I will have to walk out to my car or bike alone. If I think someone has those GIF files displayed I will not ask for help from them. This happened while I was working with a partner on a group project - someone sent a GIF to his screen and this embarrassed both of us. When someone sent one to my screen I was pissed off, enough so that I wrote a letter to the sys admin asking that they do something about it. I have made the point to many people since then that people would not bring in Playboy or Hustler to the lab so why is it appropriate to display those same pictures on a computer screen. The part about women doing it as "revenge". When I first brought this up to a friend, he told me to get some male pictures and send them to the people that were sending them to mine. This doesn't solve the problem in my eyes - it just says that if you can do it so can I. I think it is rude anyways to be sending pictures to others screens. Lisa farmerl@handel.cs.colostate.edu "If people want to make war they should make a colour war and paint each other's cities up in the night in pinks and greens." Yoko Ono (_Louder than Words_)