Chris, I'm very sorry you chose to close the "Photographers behaving" thread down.
There was absolutely no justification for that act. There was no anti-woman rhetoric whatsoever, if you care to reread, and the problem lay simply in the inability of some minds to grasp what was being communicated rather than listen to their own version of it playing out between their ears.
It is incomprehensible to me that a nation like the States can permit its children to be slaughtered, time after time, simply for the sin of going to school, will espouse an excuse such as "guns don't kill; people do" without taking in mind that indeed, people squeeze the triggers, but without those triggers to squeeze it would not, could not, happen.
Sure the nutters will always exist, but a knife against a class filled with chairs and folks willing to use them to overpower one asshole? Yet, this same society will do nothing to stop the source of the death: the gun. Do they imagine those "founding fathers", were they around in today's world, would have given carte blanche to the weaponry available? To think so indicates one must imagine them imbeciles.
Yet, in a conversation about male/female relationships, far more complex than any open and shut case such as the right to kill your neighbour at a few hundred yards, or right up in his face, voices scream from the roof and even down from the underbelly of Australia! Horrors! The realities of life must be denied and a fantasy version of it preserved and propagated instead, with any revelations of its falseness but a heresy most foul!
This, Chris, has turned into a very sad day. If LuLa is to be considered a playpen for the under-sixes, then please state so on the wrapper and one can choose or not choose to participate on that level. I am 80 years old, have lived this profession, photography, since 1960 and know on which side of the slice lies the jam. I see no point in attempting to share some of those experiences with a bunch of children, find and pass on links to photographic websites and books that I imagine could open the minds of many readers here who have not had my inevitably wider range of photographic experiences; in fact it would be quite inappropriate so to do. I am old and my time runs short. I do not want to waste more of it if I can avoid doing so.
I think this marks a moment for clarification.