I’m talking about this sort of thing. Like clearly I wouldn’t want someone to see that on my phone in the office or when I’m sat on a bus.
However there seems be a lot of these that aren’t filtered out by nsfw settings, when a similar picture of a woman would be, so it seems this is a deliberate feature I might not be understanding.
Discuss.
If someone hung a poster like that at the office I would question their social understanding.
Why?
I dont care if someone hangs a poster of their dog, their child, their partner or ozzy osbourne, unless the workspace is exposed to customers. Then i expect that there must be guidelines. I dont see how anime figures could offend anyone and i dont see how OP calls them half naked when they are fully clothed.
All I’m saying is that a person hanging a picture of an anime chick in their cubicle is far enough outside the norm of office behavior that said person probably doesn’t have a good sense of social cues. There’s absolutely a difference between pictures of your family and pictures of your cartoon waifu.
Maybe companies limit their options by establishing and maintaining a norm of office behaviour. Maybe letting people be people as long as they contribute with what they can and what they are good at, is enough to demand of your employees
Maybe. I don’t think those norms are enforced from above or anything. It’s one of those “read the room” type things. And that’s all I’m saying. Someone who would have a scantily clad anime poster in their cubicle at the engineering company I work at has failed to read the room. And thus I question their social understanding.
I also feel like it’s the sort of thing that makes a workplace less comfortable for some people. Like, I can imagine a woman working in the very male-heavy software and engineering departments who could find such posters off-putting. Just like it would be tacky to put up posters of a supermodel in a bikini on a muscle car.
Let’s maybe just not objectify people at work, you know?
Gives me the ick, like some guy with a pornstar poster. If you can’t even go to work without having a sexualised image constantly in your eye line, you need to work on your priorities.
But isn’t that their problem? Why bother what their personal priorities are?
Because they’re working with other people?
So you have a problem with a persons priorities, based on their preferences when it comes to office decorations, because they are “working with people”?
As long as those preferences and priorities do not interfere with this persons performance at work, I don’t see why you or anybody should have a say on this really.
Simply put, it’s sleezy. I wouldn’t want to hang around someone like that. Titillating anime pictures are on the spectrum of a mechanic’s skimpy calendar. They’ve prioritised sexual gratification over social decorum, which the choice in of itself, I feel would make women uncomfortable. What kind of guy does that?
There’s clearly a limit here, I’m sure you’d agree, perhaps your line is simply further back. Hardcore pornography is probably out, no? A fleshlight? A poster celebrating 9/11? Any number of these things wouldn’t interfere with my ability to work, but I certainly wouldn’t want to go near that person. You come to work to work, not to get a horn on.