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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Ok, I was going to crack a joke about how this is a response to the vulva slit being removed from the depiction of the nude woman on the Pioneer plaque, but it literally is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque#Criticism

According to the memoirs of Robert S. Kraemer, however, the original design that was presented to NASA headquarters included a line which indicated the woman's vulva,[11] and this line was erased as a condition for approval of the design by John Naugle, former head of NASA's Office of Space Science and the agency's former chief scientist.[11]

There have also been criticisms of the censorship of the female figure's genitals. Scientist and artist Joe Davis protested the depiction with his Poetica Vaginal project wherein he used an MIT radar dish to transmit the recordings of a vaginal detector.[22]

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

So youre telling me that Aliens think that Barbie is anatomically correct... Jesus christ, we really are fucking weird when it comes to chicks.

[–] RedMari@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TIL, hope that I somehow get to use the knowledge I learned from this thread in conversation in the physical world someday!

[–] Angelevo@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

Make your own future! Go outside, tell a stranger this beautiful story!

spoiler(get thrown in jail)