LuanMonta's avatar
Me dear fellow artist, you said and explained absolutely everything I could write now. I use exactly the same arguments while disacussing such "delicate" issue. When you talk about museums, you summarize it all: this mature content is there, so anyone can see it. When I was a child I went to lots of museums and exhibitions and nothing bad happened. I grew up and learned that certain things are natural and only this. People seem to create "storms in glasses of water", as we say here (it means "turning a tiny thing into a huge problem"). 

It's interesting what you said about your country. It's something I see people commenting on very often, and I find it very normal. I was discussing it with a friend who went there a couple of months ago and was a bit shocked with certain behaviors that seemed normal to me (or at least did not seems too bizarre). Well, I live in Brazil, and things are pretty crazy here. Brazilians are more conservative than most people imagine, I must tell you. Specially now! If you see anything about Brazilian politics now you will know what I mean. Talking about this is not a good idea sometimes. Sad, right? At least I have not such problems in my family :)

But you are totally right! Saying there's something sexual about your photo makes no sense, for example. There's something funny and strange about it, but only this. Well, I particularly see nothing so "disturbing and shocking" . These many filters for mature content drive me crazy sometimes too. Sometimes I ask my friends if they see something "inappropriate" in a work of mine before I submit it just to be sure I'm not ignoring something in it. It's difficult when we know there's nothing "wrong" with it and some people stil think there is... Anyway, we try to do our best XD
AnnaBelial's avatar
Yes, you understand it the same way! It's like 19th century England but where bikini is a normal thing :D

I'd say most of the people i know would think Brazilians are pretty open minded, especially about body.
Actually we don't get too much news about foreign politics, except then it affects eu somewhat. Or maybe i'm just trying to be as far from politics as i can ^^;

it's just i don't want to offend anyone with my art by 'making' people see it. So the filter on its own is a good idea. BUT i think it doesn't work properly :D 
LuanMonta's avatar
"It's like 19th century England but where bikini is a normal thing" is the best thing I've read recently hahaha Love it! And I'm really glad to know we understand this whole situation in the same way :) It means we are not alone, and this is very good!

Yes, we also believed that most Brazilians were more open-minded, but we are discovering these days that things are much different. What you say about our bodies is correct, though. I was not talking about this issue, but thanks for pointing it out ;) Anyway, things are absolutely crazy, you have no idea! I don't exactly know how often people talk about my country in foreigner newspapers etc, but it's good to know it. I just won't talk about it here because it's not the proper place to do so, don't worry. It was only part of my argumentation ;) I myself try to avoid politics as much as possible, but now we can't run from it here :/ But we are always making jokes about those serious issues, so it all does not look so bad sometimes XD

I guess this idea of "don't want to offend anyone" and at the same time "the filter does not work properly" summarizes very well the situation. I don't have a good solution or suggestion on how could these filters work better than now, but at least we do what we believe it's best :)
AnnaBelial's avatar
oh man, i just got news about some political stuff which is happening in Brazil… I'm so sorry to hear that No, I disagree! 
what is happening with this world Waaaah!
now at least i know what you were talking about…

and yes, we do our best, even if it's not enough sometimes. but we are strong and will manage :hug:
LuanMonta's avatar
Oh, at least you are well informed now :) It's important to know what's happening around the world, even if it's not that good. Indeed, what's happening with this world?
Best wishes to us all Hug