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What heh?

There is a big difference between "the association with playboy is disturbing" and "the picture is disturbing".

The O'Leary quote seems to be talking entirely about the picture, the 512x512 one.

You've given a lot of resources for the former, but they were asking about the latter.

And while "suggestive" is pretty subjective, "woman with bare shoulder" is not self-evidently suggestive.




You're being overly argumentative, hence the "Heh".

For example, you said "If I was going to argue against using Lena, I'd say things about the context of the image"

Then summarily dismissed a quote about the context of the image. It's funny.


I dismissed that quote because we're not arguing about whether Lena should be used or not. That was never the question in this entire chain of comments.


The question is ""How is Lenna's picture disturbing or suggestive?"

The context is relevant to that, as you said yourself.

The wikipedia link gives some of that context. I provided one example. Cropping out the nudity doesn't change the context.


> The question is ""How is Lenna's picture disturbing or suggestive?"

Right. Which is a subset of the possible reasons to not use it. Everything about playboy is outside that subset, and does not answer the question, despite being a reason not to use it.

Much like "It's a violation of copyright" would also be a reason not to use the image that doesn't answer the question.




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