What do you mean, "biased"? Elaborate.

I think Skyhawk431 is saying that the page is pretty much whining about how nipples can't be shown without getting a high rating. The article is pretty much telling the reader, "This should not be taboo! You should hate that it is!"

Especially the line about how seeing a nipple would damage a child's delicate psyche. Whoever said that? Lots of children have seen bare breasts in art or even watching a sibling breast feed. The problem with showing it on television (like the Janet Jackson brouhaha) or in movies is that in these contexts the frontal nudity is done for fanservice and objectifying the woman. And it is very damaging to teach children that women are there to be sex objects.

The sight of a female nipple would not teach objectification of women to children, unless if it is shown in a clearly sexual way. What will, is to teach children that female breasts are sexual parts, and that they must be kept private. Female breasts are really just larger versions of male breasts. I didn't see that Janet Jackson thing, but I don't think it was really too sexual, but certainly not nearly enough for what it deserved. Just societies mindset. I am an advocate for a movement called topfreedom, seeking to allow women to bare breasts wherever men can. Most of the movement hasn't gone into media censorship much, but I want to change that too.

I couldn't disagree with you more. I think that the {moral gaurdians} that demand the ratings for showing breasts are the ones making a mountain of a molehill, and you are one of those nasty people.

The exposure of breasts alone doesn't make it sexual. They are not genitals. They're main biological function is breastfeeding, which all those children watching TV have hopefully done before. Male breasts and female breasts are really the same things in different sizes.

The sight of breasts isn't harmful to children if it isn't in a bad context. The contrary was a belief started by the puritans, who believed that children would get sexual-minded at a young age if they saw female breasts. Now it is known that this isn't true (by a few people who know the facts). When a child sees a female nipple, they don't view it as a sexual thing unless if they were taught to. The reason that they are viewed so strongly sexual by adults in our society is because they are rarely seen outside a private or sexual context, along with society's unhealthy decision to sexualize them. Believe me, it's not the people who are exposed to nudity during childhood that commit sexual crime when they grow up.

There are some places in Europe where woman are topless on public beaches, just as men would be in that setting. Even more so in Africa, where there are villages where women spend most of their time topless. The children in these places aren't harmed, and the straight men are much more relaxed about it. Female nipples don't need to be private parts as genitals are, and men and women should have equal rights and opportunity at this point in time. I am a supporter of a movement called topfreedom, seeking to allow women to bare breasts in places where men can.

So I think it is terribly stupid to require people to be 17 years old (The requirement to watch R-rated films at theatres) to watch a movie that has bare breasts in it, especially when it is non-sexual. Male breasts are already allowed in G or PG movies, sometimes even in a sexual context. I believe that this is a ridiculous part of media censorship that really needs to change.

I like this idea. However, someone should come up with a very witty caption. ;D

How about a breast with the nipple hidden by a dime?

We don't need a picture. Like the note says, nobody is confused about what one might look like.

The picture was never intended to show what a nipple looked like, it was intended to represent the trope. I as a fairly prudish, (American)right-wing individual on my first visit to this particular entry saw a female breast in profile with a black rectangle over the nipple and immediately thought "Oh, it's about censorship of female nipples." A picture really is worth a thousand words.

What's more, showing a diagram and then censoring the very thing the diagram is intended to show represents a fantastic piece of tongue-in-cheek humor. Whoever put the image together is a genius who deserves an entry in the Made of Win page.

Aw, shucks, I feel flattered. All the same, nobody argues with Fast Eddie. I just wanted an explanation.

How about we have a male nipple?

It's not the exact point of this trope, but you get the idea.

How about we censor a picture of a shirtless guy? That would be excellent, no?

Now you're just being silly.

I think the picture is perfect as-is.

I've currently been looking for the Arrested Development picture of Tobias and Kitty both flashing Michael and both have the Censor Cloud. That would probably get the point across better than anything we currently have. I remember seeing the episode, but don't remember which episode it was.

Like zis?

Too blurry? Any better caption ideas?