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06-03-2005 #1A Very Grooby Guy Platinum Poster
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Objectionable material - your advice.
Ok just had a fetish set come in and looking for your advice.
The model is wearing a cross on her right arm (see pic).
Now I'm probably not hip enough to get what it means as I have seen people wearing this but wasn't this a nazi/world war 2 symbol also? (Let's not start a discussion how the swastika was stolen from a Christian symbol which in turn was stolen from an older Asian symbol please).
What I want to know is...is this symbol in the context of this set offensive?
Your opinions on this subject only, if you please.
thanks
seanchai
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06-03-2005 #2Veteran Poster
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Well im not offended by it but that might be because I really just think its a regular cross. It doesnt look like a swastika So more power to whoever wears it.
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06-03-2005 #3Rookie Poster
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It's an Iron Cross. Germans used it on medals and other military indicia in WWII. I'm not offended, but I can see where people would be.
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06-03-2005 #4Silver Poster
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Re: Objectionable material - your advice.
no. the iron cross was popularized by hitler but i don't consider it the same as swastika.
Originally Posted by seanchai
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06-03-2005 #5Junior Poster
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That symbol is mostly just trendy now. Lots of people use it (West Coast Choppers, the wrestler Triple H, some band used it as their logo, and a couple of others i'm forgetting)
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06-03-2005 #6A Very Grooby Guy Platinum Poster
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That's it The Iron Cross!
Thanks - anyone see that movie with James Coburn - an early Peckinpah I think.
seanchai
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06-03-2005 #7Junior Poster
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different meaning in certain subculteres
this is an iron cross
awarded in nazi-germany for as a medal of honor kinda thing. altho one has to say a lot gi`s took them with em when returning to the US as an artifact that showed they have defeated the enemy and made it popular among 1950/60ies biker gangs-the same goes with californian surfer subculture. me as a big fan of b-grade movies (roger corman style) has to say in a lot of those biker movies from 1965-1975 u can spot those crosses on a lot of the characters (even in "born to be wilrd" i think)....
on the other hand i suppose it is popular among nazis for obvious reasons. still its hard to imagine a nazi-tgirl.
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06-03-2005 #8Junior Poster
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ooops the movie was "Easy Rider" of course
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06-03-2005 #9Junior Poster
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Re: different meaning in certain subculteres
Very true. I don't like it personally, but that's because Chicago Skins (Skinheads) wear them alot in my suburbs. For the most part people don't look at it as offensive...no big deal. Originally Posted by steeveX
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06-03-2005 #10Rookie Poster
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offensive? are you crazy?
where is this coming from?
you and i both know that there are a LOT of people offended by what you have on the site now. do we give a hoot?
why are you worried about what offends who/m?
and if they are, SO?
she's a real person with real art on her arm.
for most members , who looks at that "arm' anyway?
please! i thought that you would be the LAST person worried about what is offensive.
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