CNN’s lede says it all: “A state legislator surprised a high school class when the computer he was using projected a photo of a nude woman during a lecture on how a bill becomes a law.”
Apparently the image (and others) were on a memory stick he stored his presentation on, and the images weren’t his. Also, she wasn’t nude, she was topless. Still, the reasonable reaction would be that the kids had a laugh, the guy was embarrassed, and that’s that.
But this is America in 2007, where a half-second flash of a blurry nipple brings multi-million-dollar fines (and the ridicule of the rest of the world): “Police interviewed Barrett and school officials and seized the data memory stick and the computer to determine where the image came from, a state highway patrol spokesman said.”
Police called, property seized, investigations begun… [sigh]
Would someone tell me what’s the big deal? Like, what could seeing that picture do to the kids? Lordy, lordy, lordy.
The Fray
pwils says:
Next they won’t allow mothers to breast feed. Can’t subject them to that breast. Could harm them……
This is really getting ridiculous……..
Andrew says:
Of course, if I asked both of you to post a pic of one of your nipples here, I’m guessing only one of you would be willing to. :)
Jeff St Real says:
C’mon Andrew, don’t you remember what Goliath the dog used to say? “God wouldn’t like that, Davey.”
God doesn’t like boobies, Andrew.
Steve M says:
I wonder if any of the complainers ever whined about the objectification of women – or more directly lectured their pristine children not to think about girls in ‘inappropriate’ ways?
Significant irony ensues. Think about it.
Stephen says:
“God doesn’t like boobies, Andrew.”
In heaven, all women are flat chested so as to maintain holiness in the men. ;)
Morkleb says:
I think high school kids see worse things than topless women these days…
Gnomic says:
I can only hope that this is a “law and order” social conservitive that deserves to experience the laws he’s trying to force on the rest of us.
greyrat says:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!
Meh. If kids don’t know about this kind of stuff before high school, I fear for our counrty. And I’m a parent of a boy and a girl just entering high school.
Mountain, meet molehill…
Anonymous says:
Now Greyrat, there is no need to insult your kids like that!
Leland says:
He has no idea how those pictures got on that mammary stick… Err, memory stick.
My cousin brought up an interesting point. Who does a public presentation of any kind without going through it first?
Andrew Kantor's Place: Boobies, continued says:
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Randy says:
Upon reading this article again, it occurred to me that all of this could have been avoided if the legislator had just run the Schoolhouse Rock video instead of doing a lecture.
As an added bonus, if an inappropriate extra bit of educational media comes on the tail end of a video production, I’d think there would be a higher probability of it being full video pr0n instead of a simple picture. Kids can really learn more from motion pictures than a single image.
Won’t somebody think of the children?!?
Dorene says:
Didn’t you make a YouTube bit about nipples being the bane of our existance? Don’t you remember what you, yourself, said? Nipples are scary, man! Never, ever forget! ;)