• NachorellaEnglish
    1009·
    2 years ago

    Lena Cena is pretty funny but these people sound insufferable.

    • Turun@feddit.deEnglish
      1271·
      2 years ago

      Forsén stated in the 2019 documentary film Losing Lena, "I retired from modeling a long time ago. It’s time I retired from tech, too… Let’s commit to losing me.

      From Wikipedia

      She was a paid model, so I don’t consider the usage unethical based on that. But I like this comment from a journal:

      In today’s age of high-resolution digital image technology, it seems difficult to argue that a 512 × 512 image produced with a 1970s-era analog scanner is the best we have to offer as an image quality test standard".

      Lmao, they do have a point though!

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        2 years ago

        In today’s age of high-resolution digital image technology, it seems difficult to argue that a 512 × 512 image produced with a 1970s-era analog scanner is the best we have to offer as an image quality test standard".

        I mean, this puts into context that the standard probably should have been some kind of test card like this :

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_circle_pattern

        alt text?

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      2 years ago

      I don’t know that she actually did. Most recent statement I can find from her is 2019, and she essentially says that she thinks it’s time to retire the image.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        567·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, those woke culture warriors at the … IEEE … distracting us from … Something… by asking academic researchers to … Refrain from using a specific cropped pornographic image that the model has asked people to stop using.

        Those bastards.

              • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                15·
                2 years ago

                I mean, I’d agree that it’s not really too interesting of a thing to report on, but… It just doesn’t seem weird to me that they didn’t talk about something, and then after something happened with it they did for a minute, and then they stopped again. Nine articles from a month ago, when they updated the policy, and none since doesn’t scream “a ton” or “culture war” to me.

                And what is the act of class warfare being done here, in your view? What’s the narrative or agenda being pushed?

      • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        2 years ago

        Naw, they’re excellent for determining which kind of people are controlling manipulative monsters!

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    30·
    2 years ago

    Forsén redid the shoot some 50 years later, producing a (worksafe) image of a grandmotherly woman wearing a hat and smiling. Perhaps using this updated image would be a reasonable compromise?

    • YAMAPIKARIYA@lemmyfi.comEnglish
      35·
      2 years ago

      They tested positive for sex, unlike you, probably.

      Real answer: Sex positivity is an attitude towards human sexuality that regards all consensual sexual activities as fundamentally healthy and pleasurable, encouraging sexual pleasure and experimentation.

    • Maddier1993@programming.devEnglish
      36·
      2 years ago

      It’s corporate speak for “It’s no longer hip and cool to objectify women”… or wait… I guess it is supposed to be “It’s not mysogny if the women like it”… but who knows…