are we dealing with sexism? Since all women are supposed to look like they are 16-25, is LJ's problem here with the depiction of a male as subject of a female gaze, and charges of underaged depiction being used to cover this, because adult male desire of 15-18 year old appearing females is regarded as normal, and even mandatory, not deviant in western culture?
I had more or less the same thought. I don't think it happens on an conscious level or as intentionally as that, but inherently, yes. At least in the reporting of artwork. I sincerely hope LJ would be consistent (ouch, I think I strained something) when it comes to gender in investigating what's reported to them, but the reports on which they say they are acting can be completely random. And I suspect arguably adolescent boys depicted would be more likely to catch the eye in the first place, because it's further outside 'the norm', so they would be more likely to get reported. And the end result is the same, intention or no.
(Don't know how it is in other countries, but here we have girls looking nothing over sixteen being advertised as 'teens' on late night sex ads on tv every damn night. And nobody seems to blink an eye.)
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Date: 2007-08-05 10:49 pm (UTC)are we dealing with sexism? Since all women are supposed to look like they are 16-25, is LJ's problem here with the depiction of a male as subject of a female gaze, and charges of underaged depiction being used to cover this, because adult male desire of 15-18 year old appearing females is regarded as normal, and even mandatory, not deviant in western culture?
I had more or less the same thought. I don't think it happens on an conscious level or as intentionally as that, but inherently, yes. At least in the reporting of artwork. I sincerely hope LJ would be consistent (ouch, I think I strained something) when it comes to gender in investigating what's reported to them, but the reports on which they say they are acting can be completely random. And I suspect arguably adolescent boys depicted would be more likely to catch the eye in the first place, because it's further outside 'the norm', so they would be more likely to get reported. And the end result is the same, intention or no.
(Don't know how it is in other countries, but here we have girls looking nothing over sixteen being advertised as 'teens' on late night sex ads on tv every damn night. And nobody seems to blink an eye.)