Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers
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Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist.

Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers | Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist.::Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist.

  • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    That’s what’s hard to gage. Likely due to what we consider nude on a woman isn’t on a man. A shirtless man is completely acceptable, but a woman isn’t. The discrepancy is cultural and the culture is discriminatory. This isn’t going to change anytime soon.

    The sensible thing would be to accept that what we consider appropriate for a man isn’t for a woman. But this will always be pointed out as sexist. You could ban all nudity except arms, neck and knees down. But this will be criticised as excessive.

    You could also allow all nudity as long as the context isn’t sexual. However, twitch has a large market for sexual content particularly from people who may be limited from accessing that content like minors. So theres a large finical incentive for anyone to try to exploit allowed nudity.

    Twitch likely want and encourage some of this content, as it drives engagement and thus profit. However, they want to minimise the legal/moral/reputation issues associated with delivering this content.

    • Gljvf@lemmy.todayEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      You can make the argument that toplessness on men is more predatory since it’s so casually accepted and thus male body’s are more sexually exploited. In my younger in shape days lots of women were turned on by my shirtless torso

      At the end of the day its advertisers who will decide what os acceptable and a lot of brands don’t want to deal woth nudity. The majority don’t want to have to have a nuanced review of the content and on a love stream it be impossible to do so anyway .

      Also all nudity is sexual in nature. A young heterosexual male going through puberty seeing a vagina would be aroused just as much as a homosexual boy seeing a penis. Or a hetero female seeing a penis vs a homosexual female seeing a vagina.

      There are plenty of cam sites and porn sites these women can go to of they want to stream nudity. I am sire someone can create a middle ground between game streaming and women top less begging for donations. It’s just that the top less site would only have donations and no advertising.