What about Simone De Beauvoir nude?
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> And then one has to have some respect for the larger
> culture. There is no reason our ideas of prudery and modesty
> should be normative, and if prevailing cultural standards in
> Iran find bikinis as unacceptable as we would find nudity on the
> subway, then that's just tough for the belly-shirt crowd in
> North Tehran.
I feel the same way about the States. Why should our ideas about social justice and political intelligence be normative in a country where the larger culture promotes inequality, aggression, historical lying and economic theft? Aren't we pushing our values on people who find them appalling?
Dennis
