Proposed amendments to the rules of lawn-tennis

[Pegleg]

I agree it's tasteless, and typical of how low (perhaps not in that kit) some people will stoop to put the opposition off in a game of mixed doubles.

[french frank]

I agree it's tasteless, and typical of how low (perhaps not in that kit) some people will stoop to put the opposition off in a game of mixed doubles.

[eighthobstruction]

I'm glad you got to the bottom of that ff....

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm glad you got to the bottom of that ff....

Don't be cheeky!

[John Wright]

4) Whenever any part of the under-garments of a player (male or female) becomes visible to the umpire at any time during the course of a match, the wearer thereof will be deemed to have lost the said match.

Ah, so, where the umpire is positioned, 2.5 metres in the air, the spectators in rows 1 to 8 will be allowed to see knickers?

[Flosshilde]

Pretty tasteless, not say sexist. To say nothing of the outrage to Mr Grew's sensibilities. There has been a complaint, but perhaps it can stand as an example of what is officially considered out of keeping with this forum.

I thought there should be a similar example for the men (I think he might be infringing more than one rule)

[Flay]

Wonderful picture, Flossie! Look at the faces in the crowd - every one is laughing. So our micturating colleague is incorrect when he says:

What a nation of prudes we are all becoming.

[MrGongGong]

I don't see that picture as tasteless or sexist.

What a nation of prudes we are all becoming.

How unsurprising
I'm sure that if you expressed those nethanderthal views in many places you would rapidly become one of the better known sopranos

actually
I am a man
I am heterosexual
I find that image very offensive
I am not a prude
but it's simply offensive soft porn

[Flosshilde]

Wonderful picture, Flossie! Look at the faces in the crowd - every one is laughing. So our micturating colleague is incorrect when he says:

Indeed.

(I've just realised that the man in the picture isn't infringing the underwear rule, as no underwear is visible )

[Mr Pee]

it's simply offensive soft porn

You need to get out more....

[Mr Pee]

I'm sure that if you expressed those nethanderthal views in many places you would rapidly become one of the better known sopranos

Which one?

[Flosshilde]

It's strange that in this type of publicity photo no-one seems to be looking at anybody. They're all looking vaguely - or is it meaningfully? - into the distance, as if they've put something somewhere, but can't quite remember where. (perhaps, in this case, it's a body)

[johncorrigan]

It's strange that in this type of publicity photo no-one seems to be looking at anybody. They're all looking vaguely - or is it meaningfully? - into the distance, as if they've put something somewhere, but can't quite remember where. (perhaps, in this case, it's a body)

Compare the image...

http://www.transcend.ws/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Meerkats.jpg

[french frank]

This has wandered completely off topic.

For what it's worth, my view is that few people are in any way bothered about the sight of a woman's bare bottom - that would be prudish. But this was an example of what is generically described as "glamour photography" (she is not playing tennis in that outfit!)- posed photos designed to titillate, and what makes some women, and indeed some men, uneasy is the public display of such photos of women and the sight of a load of appreciative men ogling them. Old Master paintings aren't in the same category because on the whole, where publicly displayed, the viewers are general art lovers.

I would feel uneasy in a factory works canteen, with a load of men silently chomping and attentively studying the photos of Page 3 girls, adorning the walls. It is not prudery. It feels like sexism.

And, with all due respect to Flossie, his male photo isn't "glamour photography" and is humorous. That is the intention. I suspect men took both photos(?). So no calendar girlie pics here, please.

[amateur51]

You need to get out more....

You need to pay attention to those who were offended by your unnecessary original post, apologise and grow up.

Are you not able to make a connection between the publication of that photograph on this forum, your fantasies and the recent outrages against women in India?