I don't get offended easily, and as for the Amber pic, doesn't bother me as I don't often go to the front page anyway, but even if I did, to me it's not a big deal. I know Okie asked our opinion initially when using Amber, and everyone at the time was pretty cool with it, though I think most of us were reserved in judgement until we saw the pics then either hated it or indifferent or whatever.
I haven't read the whole thread, but read some of the posts, and as far as I'm concerned, I'm not going to bother reading it. I only saw Kali's post against it, not Nikki's & Cindy's. Frankly, it's the guys' responses to the pictures that I find unnecessary and whilst it may be flattering for the women involved (this goes for other threads too where people have posted their pictures), I think it's offputting. I don't walk into the jocks room & make comments about "wow small *****". I get fed up with the portrayal of women in magazines too, but it doesn't stop me reading them, however if I'm limited to buying 1 magazine, I know which one it is - the one with the positive portrayal of women riding bikes, not wearing over-priced tops to show off their boobs (no point mentioning the names, as they're not American anyway).
Don't bother calling me a prude or a bitch or anything else, it's water off a duck's back (I ain't no prude, if I was I couldn't do the job I've got or have done other jobs through the years).
Bbbom, I agree with your stand on the whole issue. One woman Henk worked with couldn't see the similarity between a guy's calendar & a tit calendar hanging up, so when they offered to hang up a stick calendar in the lunchroom, she got the message & put it somewhere else. I've hung up guy calendars too, and the guys never said anything or else they had to lose theirs too ;)
As for Kali being thin-skinned, she has her reasons, some of which she has told us and "going overboard", walk in her shoes, with her feelings, her experiences and then say if she went overboard or not. I don't want it to turn into a fight between us Firecracker, or anyone else, I'm just stating my opinion on the whole thing as I've seen. If I was going to revoke my membership here, I would have done it a long time ago, but sorry folk, you're stuck with me. I am indifferent to the picture, it's the thread and the fighting that I'm upset about. I know a lot of you are friends, and I don't think it's something to lose friendships over, we need more women members and women riders and bickering isn't exactly going to help. I thought women dirtbikers were different, guess I'm wrong - yeah, I know, we're still women under the dirt, but this is bull****.
Michelle
(sorry for the long post, but I'm fed up watching the bickering between us women).