wickster

Well folks I've been in touch with lomag to see if my avatar was indeed offensive. I thought I'd leave that decision to the admin people. Credit to Mark, he said it was questionable, but not as bad as some of the others. He asked me if I would remove it for him, which I have, for him.
Being a newbie to this site I've been inspired/helped with my car, because of the great people on this great forum.
I wouldn't want to offend anyone on here, but were all adult right?? I just feel the pc brigade have won again we know when we've over stepped the line, and me personally don't think we did.
Like radz said, girls and cars are related
Okay, I'll get down off my soap box now, oh and say goodbye to my little lady
P.S. All the bridge avatars were being used so I had to use this one

sdg1871

I like hot chicks as much as the next guy but that's not really the issue at least for those of us in the sexually-repressed United States. Here, if I opened a post with the kind of racy avatars or pics that we've been seeing recently on this board and a woman saw it who claimed she was offended, she could file a sexual harassment complaint or, even worse, use it as one of the grounds for a sexual harassment lawsuit. This is not some pipe dream -- this is the reality of life here in the good old U S of A. It sucks big time but that's the way it is.

I understand that people in the UK and in continental Europe are not nearly so uptight about sex.

Of course, the puritanical attitude in the US toward human sexuality and the attitude of making sex seem like some sort of forbidden fruit or shameful act not to be discussed explains why the US is the teenage pregnancy capital of the Western world.

Don't even get me started about my feelings about whether organized religion's death grip over politicians on social issues here in the US is bad for my country. Suffice it to say that I personally believe that religion and the state should remain entirely separate -- lest people be compelled by the government to live their lives in accordance with a religion that they do not practice or believe it -- exactly the result that the founders of the US strove to avoid when they wrote the US Constitution's provision barring the establishment of the state religion (the Establishment Clause).

But that's just the way it is here and I'm not giving any disgruntled female employee a pretext to ruin my life and that of my family by launching a sexual harassment lawsuit. Again, here in the US, the male target of such a complaint or lawsuit is basically presumed to guilty and even if subsequently found innocent, the injury to the man's reputation is often permanent.

All of this is a way of explaining why, although most regrettable, it is necessary to keep this website PG-13. If it isn't, many of us will no longer visit it from work or even from a work-provided Blackberry, Iphone or other PDA.

If you want porn and images close to porn, there are about a million websites for that. We all know where to find them.

If E60.net is no longer safe to visit at work, the amount of activity and posts will go way down. And I don't think that any of us want that.

530inOK

I agree with sdq1871. The focus of this forum should remain about the automobiles for which it was intended. We can't limit user viewership/input over something
as simple as an avatar, or, material that has nothing to do with an e60.
I miss my Rigid tool calendar at work, but, the HR manager said it had to go. Just a sign of the times.

sdg1871

Sucks, doesn' it?

sdg1871

I love your new Avatar.

530inOK

Yes it does. How is it that the 1 percent has taken over?

sdg1871

Because they are very vocal and, for whatever reason, they scare the crap out of the politicians.

530inOK

The administrators of this site do an excellent job. THANK YOU GUYS!!!
Let's not make it any more difficult than it has to be.

khooger

To me not offensive...

littlemouse

I've seen worse...