Booby-Trapped

Here’s an interesting point. My most recent post was about places in the USA where it’s okay to go topless. It was tongue in cheek. I thought maybe at the end it would be okay to include a smallish picture of Scout Willis roaming topless through New York. I had my choice (I thought) of a real picture or one with pixilated nipples.

As I compared, I realized that the pixilated nipples made the pic look somehow dirty. But nipples aren’t dirty. They’re just not appropriate on display in all circumstances. But they are appropriate in a post about when breasts are okay to be shown in public. So I chose the real pic. Except someone has, literally, booby-trapped it. Allow me to demonstrate. This picture is okay.

Because nobody's titillated, we can maintain paragraph format and stuff.

Because nobody’s titillated, we can maintain paragraph format and stuff.

But if you try to use this fully nipples picture instead, the gods of Internet (or Willis family) modesty suddenly leap in and tell us we can’t write in orderly lines anymore.

Conservatives could live with this. As long as they can still remember how to behave like gentlemen.

Conservatives could live with this. As long as they can still remember how to behave like gentlemen.

Or maybe Nipple Freedom somehow requires a universal centering function that makes all writing into a woman’s curvy shape, the way all
of everything is always supposed to be in a woman’s curvy shape if you’re the kind of woman who doesn’t think but just struts and jiggles and smirks at the supposed singlemindedness of men. Well, you get the picture…