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Look, this child mermaid on the Photoshop splash screen[1] has no clothes beneath the waist. Is it NSFW too?
[1]: https://www.deviantart.com/mostafaabeelfattah/art/Adobe-Phot...
I'm not sure what place of work would consider this mascot to be NSFW (maybe a theocratic country where women are forced to hide their bodies for religious reasons?) but the switch doesn't prevent mascot from popping up elsewhere, so if you are in such a place you should probably avoid this program all together (or find a better employer).
* edit I don’t know or understand why this is being downvoted, but to make the point slightly more clearly, Krita’s splash screens are only slightly unprofessional, and they are are slightly unprofessional for exactly the same reason that using the Lena image in computer vision is now considered slightly unprofessional. People are free to disagree, but it’s a fact that some people don’t love it, and that’s all that’s needed to make it “semi” inappropriate for work. It’s nothing obscene, nothing in your face, it’s just slightly suggestive in a way that not everyone wants at work.
Why would the gender of the mascot even matter? Would it be better if the mascot was male?
The gender doesn’t matter. It would be just as weird if it was an ambiguously young looking male child/teenager with emphasized anatomy under tight clothing. I would definitely also avoid having that on my monitor or desk.
[0] https://krita.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/electrichearts_...
Speaking only personally, I can imagine how this image would make some people slightly squeamish if I had it on display at work. I’m not saying you shouldn’t have it on your desktop. You do you. I’m only saying I wouldn’t do it, and not necessarily for obvious or extreme reasons, it’s really just for subtle reasons, but personally I don’t see how anyone could not see the slightly suggestive nature of Krita’s splash screens. Which is fine at home, just not at work (for me).
As far as Kiki’s Delivery Service goes, Googling it, people online tend to point out that the shots are of bloomers, not panties per-se. It’s not a sexualized symbol like garters are. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0097814/parentalguide/nudity
Then proceeded to talk about "melon sized breasts", which Krita's mascot doesn't have.
If there is an award of the lack of self-awareness, this comment deserves a nomination.
You don’t have to be in a puritanical setting for some women and men around you to be uncomfortable with your pin-ups, regardless of which body parts are visible. They might never even say anything about it, and yet it can still be slightly inappropriate and/or unprofessional.
Yes exactly! That’s the controversial point that started this entire thread. Glad you came around and we are arguing the same viewpoint now.
These complaints about a... "squirrel girl mascot" where you give graphic descriptions about body parts says more about you than the images/authors.
"The dude doth protest too much, methinks"
As I do general puritanism.
I usually don't go into these kind on discussions, especially on HN, but allow me to mention that in many countries, nobody would think much of such splash screen even at work. And that doesn't mean in any way that the person in question is creepy or that anyone else around would think so for a minute. If this artwork would trigger a reaction, this wouldn't go further than "hey, nice drawing" without any afterthoughts.
Seeing this picture as suggestive is immensely conditioned by the personal and cultural background of the beholder and his community. These norms aren't universal.
It triggered a lot of reactions from other HNers since such a world view is denying the basic freedoms to express of the opposite gender, and even the freedom to exist.
You seem to have an education, use it to widen your perspective of the world.
I was referring to the global closing of the gender gap, for example, which is occurring due to changing norms. You can read about it.
https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-202...
https://www.oecd.org/stories/gender/social-norms-and-gender-...
Why do you think I’m in a minority? What makes you think people here or elsewhere disagree with the idea that some images aren’t entirely appropriate in the workplace? I haven’t said anything that’s even remotely controversial. In the US the law agrees and corporations agree and we all are subjected to anti-harassment tracing every year just to remind us, even while some people reminisce about the good old days when pinups at work were acceptable.
We are talking strictly about the workplace in this thread, not about the freedom to express yourself in your personal life. It seems like you might have missed the premise here and are jumping to wildly mistaken conclusions.
That's the one that comes up on the splash screen for me, and if you see that as in any way "suggestive", that's disturbing to me.
Would you have the same problem if they had Mickey Mouse in their splash screen? After all, he is topless and arguably more suggestive than Kiki is in any way.
I’m not going to touch the Mickey comment, that’s weird.
I remember the early to mid '90s's when it was still acceptable to have half naked women on PC screen savers, wallpapers or calendars on the walls in the office (Europe). IIRC some German hardware suppliers still gifted us wall calendars with women in bikinis in 2018.