The Carmen Electra debate: An HR expert's view
Carmen Electra is admittedly an unlikely sounding name, indeed if presented with her application form one might even wonder if she really exists.
The situation arose from a posting regarding the appropriateness of the placement of an FHM calendar on the wall by a member of staff in an accounting practice. The other (all male) partners felt that it was not worth causing a fuss over as the employee was due to retire in a couple of years' time.
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Fully clothed?
Since when has underwear been "fully clothed"? Would you greet clients in wet underwear? No? Then why is it acceptable on the wall?


Yes but . . . . . .
I'm fascinated that an HR consultant feels that he can contribute anything useful to this debate without actually looking at the picture refered to - which whilst sultry, was at least as fully clothed as any of the women competitors in the recent World Championships, and was certainly not pornographic.
In the course of the debate someone said something to the effect that if anyone objected to anything, then the correct HR response was to ask for it to be taken down.
That's what the iconclasts did; in the end they managed to completely outlaw all depictions first of humans, then of animals, then of plants, and then virtually all pictorial representation; which is why there was such an amazing artistic development of script in the iconoclast muslim world - it was the only avenue left for human artistic development.
Have we really reached the position where the rational tolerant majority have to allow themselves to be dictated to by minority religious and sexual fundamentalists of all descriptions?
What a sad age in which to live (or should one more accurately say exist).