[Android Themes] Scudderb:
OPEN LETTER TO THE FORUM MOD and FORUM re: "Be Appropriate"

OPEN LETTER TO THE FORUM MOD and THE FORUM...

...

I thought about writing this in a PM but thought it

more

appropriate to deal with in the forums. You don't know me...no one does...but let me introduce myself as not only kind and respectful but funny, witty, sarcastic and

concerned

. When I make a point, I make it with a

purpose

and that includes my post that the mod chose to delete with the "notice" quoted above...

Please, PLEEEEEASE do not consider my forthcoming comments as "calling you out" as the mod but wanted express my feelings to you...

and to the rest of the forum

....that by deleting my post we are headed down a

very, very slippery slope

.

For those of you who didn't see my post, I had screenshots of my homescreens with women in burqas, some on cell phones, others just standing around. I think I'm safe to "describe" what I posted without pictures, yes??...I mean, as a matter of fact, the first textual mention of "berkahs" [sic] was by ohmyhead here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23784446&postcount=59628 so the

text

should be permitted...I hope...

Without listing the myriad reasons and arguments that could be made as to WHY or WHY NOT it was actually "inappropriate" to delete

my

post I'll just make this statement:

if you delete my post with the pictures that I put up for the reasons you stated, you're gonna have to go through all 59,680 posts and counting and delete as "inappropriate/offensive" every side boob in a too-small bikini, jeans and bare-back girl, 2-naked girl bare-ass view or hairy-chested man in underwear post in this thread

.

By way of recent example, here is ohmyhead's bare-back, 2-naked girl BARE-ASS view: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23777196#post23777196

And here's repost of vanessaem's barely-underweared, bulging, hairy chest guy: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23784446&postcount=59628

Let me also state that I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT

ANY

OF THE ABOVE EXAMPLES, INCLUDING MY PICTURES, SHOULD BE REMOVED!!

But if

this

was what was cited in response to taking my post down:

XDA members come from different cultures and religions.

What might be funny for you can be offensive to other members​

...then why do others have to "tolerate" or "accept" two hugging girl's bare asses?? Or a hairy-chested buff guy wearing super-small underwear??

Don't the "different cultures and religions" that may object to those pictures have a right

to have ALL those pictures removed as well?? Why are they still up, some with noticeable and documented conversational objection in the forum, yet no mod has deemed

those

pictures "inappropriate"??:confused::confused:

My questions above are rhetorical...as I said,

I do not believe that ANY of the above-mentioned pictures/posts should be removed

...but the questions were raised to reiterate that

you are going down a very, verrrrrrrrrrry slippery slope with my post that was deleted

.

This is apparently....

sadly

,

NOT

a "be appropriate" Forum as the title suggests. It is a "be in the majority" or at least "be in agreement with those who have the delete-a-post button":(:(

And with regard to my original post that was deleted, I DID TRY to make some valid points in the text...and I'm glad I saved the text!! But how now to repost?? :confused::confused: I have now learned that pictures of women in burqas is apparently nish-nish here...deemed "inappropriate"...but side boob shots or the full view of the bare asses of two naked women or hairy-chested men with aptly filled, bulging underwear is OK. But those were already done, so I'll avoid those. I would post a picture of a "non-religious woman in a full length dress with a veil" but I don't want to offend those who might think the dress color is "inappropriate" or offensive or who just don't like veils...or consider the weight of the woman, too thin or too heavy, "inappropriate" and might offend...

So I'll repost my original text

with "appropriate" edits

so as to make "acceptable" my previous points and I'll use a TOTALLY APPROPRIATE SCREENSHOT with my repost. Just

please do not delete

the information below...despite the character depicted in the screenshot below it is not,

not

,

NOT

a burqa NOR an endorsement of the KKK!!!!!:eek::eek:

My original post...

appropriately edited

...

I'm trying to remember where I was in the thread...was it post 29,454 or was it 51,498?? ODD...I lost track in here...Well, somewhere in the last 20,000-30,000 posts (yes, I read all of them...didn't eat or sleep for 64 days) there has been some discussion about "appropriateness" Well, I'm happy to contribute my latest screenshot...

I know, I know...bit offensive...little too much skin...I hear ya I apologize. Wait, wait...WHAT??...not enough skin?? I'm confused...and that's the point. Side boob here...chick's ass crack there...nipple slip (in my mouth...WHOOPS, did I say that OUT LOUD!!??)...guy's hairy chest here...dude's holding one of his balls (SOCCER ball you pervs...shame on you!!!!!) with underwear tight enough to determine his RELIGION there....WHO THE HELL CARES!!??

But one question remains....do my screenshots throw COLD WATER on this fire...or are you gettin' HEATED UP??

...and if anyone wants me to share these images for your phones, you must send proof that you are over the age of 18.

BTW, someone misspelled "burkas" (or burqas; it's not "berkahs") and for the longest time my screen looked like this:

!!! But that's a WHOOOOOOLE other story!!!

(pssst...that's "Nate Berkus" the TV personality...)