QUOTE: Originally posted by lilBEAR
Hey plymonkey,
That is one scary site. Being a hiker and having hitchhiked here and there before. I went to look at the hiker series right away. I am a female and I wasn't offended by those figures. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So if you don't like it!!! Don't Look!!! It's just horrible that the british link posted wants to build a case against that company. It just makes you realize how narrow minded some people are and how far they'll go to push their beliefs on others.
Sorry for being but I just had to add my
GavinRay have you come across anything yet? let us know I'd like to know how your project is coming along!!!
Kelley
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I posted the link because I thought that perhaps the suit might have something to do with their going out of business. It probably didn't, since it seems that this was resolved in 2002 and it seems that no monitery settlement was imposed. I'm not sure that the site itself is responsible for the suit, but merely posting it along with other, similar suits. They do seem to represent an agenda of enforcing a particular version of decency however, but I'll have to look around a little more. This case was already settled in favor of the complaintant, so Mascot Models lost. I don't know why the magazine inwhich the ad appeared wasn't also hit. They had to approve the ad afterall.
Those kinds of things don't bother me either, though I can understand a concern over it being seen in an inappropriate environment, like say, a magazine intended specifically for children. I'm primarily a figure modeler and this has been a divisive subject of great discussion for years. Some people do not want to see that kind of thing anyewhere and they don't mind doing whatever they have to (short of the easiest thing, not looking) to keep it out of sight. At least the figures from Mascot look like women and not tall, skinny men with female anatomy, like so many products available do. As a sculptor,
that's something I find offensive.