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Risqué Art in *my* QC? How much is too much?
Border Reiver:
No problem, any time
RightSaidJames:
Has anyone else spotted the irony of this supposed outrage? No?
Well, go back to today's comic. Read the banner/logo at the top of the page. Now read the comic again.
.... do you see it yet?
bunnyThor:
--- Quote from: Nornin on 31 Jul 2008, 05:01 ---Why is it that (american) people can never see breasts, penisis or vagina without going all prudish?
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A large number of the people who colonized the lands of what was later "America" were religious extremists called "Puritans"--and they were as fundamentalist and conservative as their name suggests. Even though the mechanisms of the new American government were devised and founded by a bunch of free-thinking, agnostic intellectuals, the Puritan ethos carried strongly through the mainstream of American culture, and continues to reverberate there today.
What most Americans would consider moderate and unremarkable in religious observance would be appalingly overzealous fanaticism to most Northern Europeans. And what the mainstream of America considers politically "liberal" would be considered hard-line conservative in most of the EU, and our "conservatives" would be borderline fascist.
--- Quote from: Nornin on 31 Jul 2008, 05:01 ---But violence and murder is something you watch without cringing?
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America is a relatively young country who was founded during a bloody armed insurrection. This violent revolution is still lionized and romanticized to this very day. Also, much of the American frontier was conquered by outlaws, desperados, and roughnecks, all who frequently came into lethal conflict with both the Mexican conquerors to the south and the aboriginal peoples who wanted the land too. This era of land-grabbing, vigilanteism, and murder has also been sanitized and put on a pedestal as "The Pioneer Spirit of the Old West".
Though most people in America are not violent in the slightest, we still venerate those who are because of our shared history.
--- Quote from: Nornin on 31 Jul 2008, 05:01 ---Is this tolerance to nudity confined to Europe?
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Except for certain tropical tribal cultures who haven't been "contaminated" by Western culture and missionaries, Europe is the place where nudity is most tolerated.
--- Quote from: Nornin on 31 Jul 2008, 05:01 ---I see nothing wrong with this picture and for what it's worth, this would not be considered risqué in Iceland!
But then again... we sunbathe topless :lol:
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Women sometimes sunbathe topless in America too...just not where anyone might accidentally see them doing it.
Rocketman:
--- Quote from: bunnyThor on 31 Jul 2008, 08:22 ---A large number of the people who colonized the lands of what was later "America" were religious extremists called "Puritans"--and they were as fundamentalist and conservative as their name suggests. Even though the mechanisms of the new American government were devised and founded by a bunch of free-thinking, agnostic intellectuals, the Puritan ethos carried strongly through the mainstream of American culture, and continues to reverberate there today.
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The North was. The South was colonized by Greco-Roman imitators (guess where most of those free-thinking agnostic intellectuals came from). They had a little spat over how to run things (the abolitionist movement was spearheaded by evangelists who declared that slavery had no place in the 'New Jerusalem'), but we all know how that turned out.
RightSaidJames:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 31 Jul 2008, 08:45 ---
--- Quote from: RightSaidJames on 31 Jul 2008, 05:16 ---Has anyone else spotted the irony of this supposed outrage? No?
Well, go back to today's comic. Read the banner/logo at the top of the page. Now read the comic again.
.... do you see it yet?
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--- Quote from: The QC FAQ, written by Jeph ---Q: Where did you come up with the name "Questionable Content"?
A: I was just trying to think of a vaguely unique-sounding name, that's all. It's sort of a joke in that there's not really all that much "questionable content" in QC.
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*cough*
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Yes, I know that, but my point still stands, as does the general point that this is the Internet, and there is no promise of any page being completely innocent in nature.
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