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My initial reaction to this was "what's wrong with it, it's a totally SFW shot of someone from the shoulder-up, mildly suggestive at its very worst?", then I challenged that thought a little. I can see why it would be an issue to sit as a female student in a classroom in a heavily male-dominated field and see that we're using Playboy centerfolds as a source of data when perfectly good data of the same type is functionally limitless. It sure doesn't do much to dispel the notion that computer science academics is a boys club, does it?


Many physics, engineering and maths departments are still perceived as "boys club" as well. All without Lenna. Food for thought.




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