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It's inappropriate because the field of engineering is in dire need of more women, and it doesn't help the situation. Imagine if you wanted to go into a field such as nursing and all of the men in the text books were oiled up shirtless muscular dudes.

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>It's inappropriate because the field of engineering is in dire need of more women, and it doesn't help the situation.

That's marketing thinking though, not a real moral objection.

>Imagine if you wanted to go into a field such as nursing and all of the men in the text books were oiled up shirtless muscular dudes.

This is not text books though. It's a student page. If another student, a woman, has pictures of shirtless ripped-abs male actors in her page, I wouldn't bat an eye.

I dunno. I'd probably enjoy the textbook more. I suppose I'd be the target demographic, though.

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