Just like all of your posts. Carry on, then.
I see what you did there.
This needs to be repeated. That thread is a stupid idea. There’s ‘Live and let live’ and then there’s ‘Goddamnit, get a room!’
**DocCathode **isn’t Evil Captor. He’s not shoving his hard-on in other people’s faces. It’s a single post in a single thread in one particular forum. Sounds roughly equivalent to a room to me.
Actually the way the trend seems to be shaping (just like it tends to with the “post your Doper Pics” threads is that over there you’re probably not going to have anyone talking trash about your body, but instead you will probably get some positive reinforcement, and/or some nicer comments rather than just simple remarks.
However, you WILL probably have people making rude comments and such in threads like THESE sadly. If this thread didn’t exist, you probably wouldn’t hear or see any real criticism over in that thread over one another’s bodies (much like you don’t really get the negative comments in those “Doper pic” threads, and it all just becomes one big touchy feely love-fest).
But I do find it sadder that the more hurtful and ruder comments are the ones to be found here. So, I’m sorry to hear you shall not be posting your pictures, but I completely understand your reasoning.
Get a room in the Playboy mansion, then. I don’t like sharing this space with pornography and that’s my opinion.
Who’s Evil Captor?
IIRC, Evil Captor had some…interesting…sexual fetishes/interests and talked about them openly on the boards, to the point where posters got weirded out or tired of hearing it. Think he got banned?
What do “The funniest (human) names you’ve come across” or “What are your superpowers?” have to do with fighting ignorance? They don’t. That’s why we have a forum called “Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share”.
I’m a heterosexual male, and I found what’s been posted so far, both male and female, to be fun and creative. For those who have said the thread is a sausage fest, fine. You don’t have to open it. The rest of us who don’t spurt “OMG a penis!!!11” like a bunch of elementary school children will be over there maturely enjoying our thread.
No, he’s still around. It wasn’t so much his fetishes-he was into bondage-it was that he seemed to get off on sneaking it in to conversations where it really wasn’t even related to the topic at hand. You got the idea that he was wanking at the idea of making others uncomfortable.
(I DID consider posting a link labelled “my pussy”, but I didn’t know if that would be considered trolling…)
You weren’t. I noticed the question in the ATMB forum but didn’t even read it to see what it was about.
When the MPSIMS thread was started, I read the OP and my first thought was “why?”. In a simple and childlike way - I just thought “why?”. Why would anyone want to do that? Kinda like jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
After some more reading (and I looked at some of the photos) my reaction turned to “meh”. I can see that some folks enjoy that kind of thing. I’d rather read about Doper naughty bits than read about some of the cruel pranks people pulled on their siblings and classmates.
So my reaction was very similar to yours. Initial surprise (especially to see that here) which turned into a shrug.
Evil Captor is still around, but apparently took a voluntary hiatus after being victimized and has only returned with the lifting of pay to post.
**Guinastasia **gives the more accepted version of his plight in her post.
Yeah, I was repeating poorly remembered hearsay. I usually fail to notice things on the board when they are going on, just hear them referenced later. I just remembered him being into something sexual, and people didn’t like it, so they told him to stop talking about it, then he wasn’t around anymore really.
Only by people who still haven’t learned to scroll over a link (any link on the Internet) and read the URL before clicking. And they get what’s coming, IMO, for better or for worse.
For my suspenseful writing, where I’m trying to tell a story without letting go of the really big/obvious thing, like the person’s name, nonobvious links are a must.
Never heard of tinyurl.com, I take it?
Not my call and I can live with it. But it’s in the same category as the Barn House “forum”–an unfortunate cheaping of the neighborhood. I can ignore them, but I know they are there and I’d prefer it if they weren’t.
Maybe I inhabit a different universe from everyone else. I thought the picture was neat. It made me think of a priest from a primal pagan community, or something along those lines. Some ancient cultures believed that one’s holy power derived from their genitals… That’s kinda the story I made up in my head to go along with it. An ancient priest showing off the source of his power. Whynot’s picture was unbelievably cute, and made me think of happening upon some wood sprites.
Doc Cathode’s pic wasn’t high art or anything, but it made me think something other than “OMG PENIS! EWWWWWWWW”. Therefore I feel it may deserve more credit than it’s being given here.
It’s less that I’d expect negative comments, than it is I’d expect sexual ones. As I said, in that particular photo especially, the nudity was about vulnerability, not sex. It was also the clearest way to show how the chemo was changing my body against my will. The tone of that thread very quickly became sexual and didn’t seem to leave a lot of room for a more “academic” discussion, for lack of a better word. If someone made some sort of sexual crack about the photo, simply because I happen to appear without clothing, I’d be very hurt, because it would completely miss the point (and I don’t think the photo is unclear in what it’s trying to say). That photo is not wank-fodder. It’s a moment in time when I was going through a particular kind of hell. That’s what I want the viewer to walk away with.
I admit I have a huge emotional stake in my nude self-portraits. Then again, if I didn’t, I wouldn’t have shot them in the first place.
Thank you.
That thread is bullshit. There isn’t a single woman in it. It’s just a bunch of guys sword-fighting. Predictably. Because men are still men, no matter what their sexuality is. The same reason why there are gay bath-houses, but not straight bath-houses.
I don’t have a problem with gay men but of course a thread like that is going to be all cocks. It takes a very rare woman to be bold enough to post naked pictures of herself.
ETA: OK there are two women in it but it’s not really nudity.
I wouldn’t have accused you of complaining a lot, but this particular thread smacks to me of those people who go to nude beaches in order to get offended.
No, I’ve been to one. It was on accident (16 y/o on a class trip to Greece) so I didn’t get naked. Nowadays if I were on a real clothing-optional beach without tons of weirdos around, I might take off my top to not get tanlines. Because it’s what you do there. I was never aware posting pictures of your genitals, sexual in nature or not intended that way, was what went on here. Call it cognitive dissonance I guess.