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If "... the spread eagle ?.... ;-)" is "decidedly NSFW", I presume because "spread eagle" can be used to describe some kind of sex act that some might consider "deviant", then I proclaim that 98% of the internet is "decidedly NSFW" and thus, at your place of work, you should just stay off the internet. There is little point in trying to cover the majority of the internet with "NSFW" stickers.

"Spread Eagle" is the name of a city in Wisconsin. I guess there are no companies in Spread Eagle, Wisconsin. I'm sure that "BEARS DEN, MINI-GOLF and GO-KARTS, Highway US 2, Spread Eagle, Wisconsin 54121. (715)696-xxxx" doesn't allow innocent children into its environment of unsafe word usage that is demeaning to women.

On the other hand, the very first google hit for Argel notes:

As a personal name, Argel may refer to:
  • Argélico Fucks (born 1974), a Brazilian football (soccer) player

which most certainly triggers more automated "NSFW" filters in large U.S. corporations than "spread eagle". Though, probably not because "Brazilian" is a term for a type of pubic hair style. (And I suspect "soccer" is a term for a deviant sexual act and am sure that it sounds demeaning to women.) So, you should petition the gods to change your login to "Argel (NSFW)" and should probably not use it from work (which would also solve your original problem).

But, let us not neglect the context for the "spread eagle" remark. I find that "=()=" is not an unreasonable ASCII stick figure representation for a position, such as used in figure skating (though ">()<" might be a better choice, especially in some fonts and because the idealized placement of the four limbs in a "=()=" arrangement is rarely achieved). Now, I strongly suspect that there are people who find figure skating demeaning to women, but I'm also sure that it is mainstream enough that I won't get in trouble with HR for mentioning in.

Care to explain to a female HR representative why that post is not demeaning to women and is not creating a hostile work environment?

That's trivially done. You see, I honestly don't jump to any off-color conclusions when seeing "=()=" juxtaposed to "spread eagle". I would ask the HR rep1 what is NSFW about a stick figure representation of a mainstream figure skating technique. If they tried to "explain" to me, I'd likely interrupt fairly soon and ask them to keep their interest in and knowledge of deviant sexual acts (or however they were describing it) to themselves and to especially not foist them upon me during business hours.

1 Your characterization of the rep as "female" seems worryingly sexist. Are you trying to imply that HR reps are typically female? Or are you trying to imply that male HR reps don't properly appreciate what is demeaning to women? Or are you implying that female HR reps are unreasonably sensitive to things that they unreasonably consider demeaning to women? Or are you saying that female HR reps are particularly hard to "explain" things to?

So, I personally find your contribution on this to be the one that I would find making a hostile (unpleasant, anyway) work environment if I were to consider your posting part of my work environment. Your personal knowledge of certainly sexual acts that I was previously unaware of was foisted upon me because I had to try to understand why you had such a strong reaction to "spread eagle".

And yet, the one item here that pushes this into an unfortunate context for me (and, as you say, "Sexual harassment is for better or worse defined by the one being offended") was not marked "NSFW" by the person proposing that this needs to be done. I notice that you did mark the root node as "NSFW" but there is nothing in Re^2: Not Safe For Work threads that tells me not to visit your offensive node. So not even you, on your own nodes, are capable of carrying out your own proposal successfully.

The proposal is hopelessly doomed to failure, of course. Introducing a process of arguing over where "NSFW" stickers need to be applied would just add a lot of arguing and noise and ultimately interfere with the discussing of Perl (as it already has).

(And your chosen nick and your own contributions and your mind appear to be less "safe for work" than the node you are complaining about.)

- tye        


In reply to Re^3: Not Safe For Work threads (sex) by tye
in thread Not Safe For Work threads [NSFW] by Argel

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