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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: Politicaly correct?
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:37:09 +0000
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Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 01:04:38 +0100, jim whitby
> <mr.spock@spockmnail.net> wrote:
> 
> >This is from an rss feed today.
> >
> >On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after
> >April 1, it would no longer accept papers that include a frequently used
> >image of a 1972 Playboy model named Lena Forsén. The so-called "Lenna
> >image," (Forsén added an extra "n" to her name in her Playboy appearance
> >to aid pronunciation) has been used in image processing research since
> >1973 and has attracted criticism for making some women feel unwelcome in
> >the field.
> >
> >Why? What could possibly be demeaning about a (above the shoulders) female
> >photo!
> 
> The full photo is ahh ... fuller.
> 
> .<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Fors%C3%A9n>
> 
> And she is famous in image processing.  I doubt that the IEEE can
> change that.
> 
> War story:  Maybe ten years ago, my wife and I took my 15-yo nephew to
> Sweden, where I had lived and have friends.  We were walking through a
> park near Stockholm's City Hall, where the grassy plaza is lined with
> many bronze beauties in full glory.  My Swedish friend stopped at one
> of the beauties and commented that the model for that particular
> statue was the mother of one of his childhood friends.  Nephew was
> floored.

There is a tendency to forget that beautiful women are just people like
the rest of us.  A woman whom I knew as a folk dancer and the mother of
two children once said to me: "If you wonder what I look like naked, go
and see the statue in xxx Town Hall, I was the model for it.


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