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Comment by lukejduncan | Hacker News Reader

It's pretty sexist if you ask me. A general complaint of mine: tech news (and in this case this blog post) include meaningless pictures of woman in a way that is embarrassing to the industry. I'm getting tired of clicking links on HackerNews and LinkedIn today that look like US/People Magazine to any casual observer walking by. We're better than that.

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The majority of the article is doing touch up work to a woman, which is a very common task. There is nothing sexist about this work, and it's idiotic to claim so.

that would be a valid reason, if the author of the article actually was working on touch up work of the pictured female.

somehow i have the suspicion that no: he chose it on purpose, because, you know: BOOBS!

Why have the main picture a shot of cleavage? He doesn't touch up the cleavage anywhere in the picture. If he did, it'd probably make for a pretty weird demo. The point of the picture was to illustrate the single window mode. It seems like there would be a common sense test where you think: "Is this really how I want to represent myself and this software?"

It's a female in a bathing suit! There's nothing sleazy about touching up a female or male in photo editing software. In fact, these are probably two of the most common things touched up for photo work.

not even a bathing suit, she is wearing a corset http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/2012/04/siamb-2012-denisa.html

Out of curiosity why is it embarrassing? I bet that if I'll ask some female friends from the industry what they think of the article, none of them will complain about this.

It's like a sensationalist link-bait title, but more visible. I really dislike that opening industry news has a high probability of looking like I'm reading a tabloid to anyone who walks by my cube. Seriously, if someone walked by and sees a 30 in monitor with a large picture of some girls cleavage do you really think they'll buy that I was reading about open source photo editing software? It reminds me of the old joke: "I read playboy for the articles."

Maybe I'm unreasonable, I'm open to that conclusion.

I just find myself think "really guys, how does that picture say anything about this article" incredibly often. It seems tacky.

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