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links for 2008-08-21
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Jonesy asked; I deliver. Goolsbee '91 as Obama's sr. econ. advisor? Sold. Plus: "Twenty-first-century economics is preoccupied with technology, both as a force for change and as a source of insights about economic behavior."
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"Broadening the definition of child pornography to include artistic nude photographs of one's children is itself an act of perversion. The PPD is wasting its own resources as well as the wellspring of public outrage—both of which serve a purpose in cases of genuine child pornography—in its quest to bully an artist, who is also a parent, into compartmentalizing her two identities for the sake of propriety."
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"I ain't gonna lie. The Fuwa got me amped son!!" and more Olympic reports from an expat in Beijing.
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August 24th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I’m not sure about the legalities re: pornography of the pics by Schneider, but I SERIOUSLY question her choices as a parent. I’m all about belief in your art and pushing boundaries, but not when it concerns your kids. Especially your daughters.
I have some very cute, very amusing naked pics of my kids, which will be hilarious to look back on when they’re older, but I would never publish them or exhibit them in a gallery. Once I posted a very innocent pic of Maddie playing only in her diaper on Flickr. Two days later it had over 2000 views and was “favorited” by a guy who only had pics of babies naked and in diapers as his favorites. 100s of them. I felt sick for days. And this is coming from a pretty open-minded and relaxed family concerning nudity. In fact, my kids spend most of their time at home running around without clothes.
No, you can’t control what someone will get off on (who knew my friend’s picture of her foot would get over 4000 views?) but that doesn’t mean you have to deliberately feed into it.
We have statutory rape laws to protect minors, with the thought in mind that they are too young to be able to make those kind of decisions themselves. It’s the same for taking very personal and private pics of children. Even if her daughters agreed to the pics, we cannot assume that they have the mature judgment to make a decision like that.
I’m sorry, but as a mother some of those images really disturbed me.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I actually agree with you on this. I don’t want to publish pictures for public consumption of my future children, particularly knowing that not all viewers will regard the pictures with the same intent I created. This is something I experienced first-hand when jello wrestling; I went into it with a campy theatre/sport/comedy mindset, and was perturbed when dudes tried to hire me to work bachelor parties for $100/hour. Grody.
But, I’m not sure if I’m comfortable with the precedent that legislation would set. In some ways, parents whore their children out (with apologies for the hyperbolic language) all the time. Just in different shades. Who is the arbiter of the damage inflicted? Where the yardstick for psychic pain? etc.etc