A Seriously WTF Image (mild nudity which has been crossed out)

ThailandTom

This photograph has so many weird aspects to it, firstly an Asian women among an African tribe, topless like the woman next to her. They all have guns. Look at the womans facial expression next to the Asian lady. They seem to have some wooden tools or something as well. It is just an image I really do not understand haha...

evolve

hahahahaha i don't even know

Cloud

That's not the greatest crossing-out job I've ever seen...

ThailandTom

The thing is though, if the Asian girl was not there and it was only a tribe and some naked tribe women, most people would have no issues because that is the way they live, but if you introduce somone else it makes it different... But yea still, it is only mild nudity and nothing pornographic, hope nobody is offended. I just want to know what those wooden things are and how the hell did that Asian woman get herself into that situation.

vinlyn

Cloud said:

That's not the greatest crossing-out job I've ever seen...

I examined it very closely, and I would agree.

ThailandTom

vinlyn said:

Cloud said:

That's not the greatest crossing-out job I've ever seen...

I examined it very closely, and I would agree.

Okay Okay, I guess I could have made a better job of it but I was being lazy and it doesn't make much of a difference.

Have you seen the guy on the far right lol. They look to be high as well though if you look at their eyes. Really strange photo and situation, it has made me too curious.

ThailandTom

I have another one, no nudity but just as strange...

RebeccaS

ThailandTom said:

The thing is though, if the Asian girl was not there and it was only a tribe and some naked tribe women, most people would have no issues because that is the way they live, but if you introduce somone else it makes it different...

I think this is a really good point, it's so true!

OneLifeForm

African rebels apparently.

The second pic you posted looked like children rebels.

I don't know if rebel is the right word, soldier is probably not the word.

Gang members would probably describe it the best.

Except they arent really gangs over there, gangs have some level of legality to follow.

There, they can walk around like they are in the second picture raping, shooting and stealing from whoever they want.

I've read some things about what has happened over there including one book about a child "soldier" who was forced into the "army" after they killed his whole family. It was like his biography. He eventually got out obviously because the book got written and he is a citizen of the US now if I remember right.

Just in his experience alone, what his number of years experience being in Africa were like was absolutely horrific.

ThailandTom

Yea Africa has so many problems and has done for such a long period of time. Rebel soilders did come to mind with me initially, mainly with the second photo, one person has a rocket launcher...

Going back to the first picture though, I still have to ask why. That Asian woman looks so out of place consider it looks again like war torn Africa, yet she seems happy and is naked, with guns and those wooden objects around. I am miffed....

JosephW

They are such rebels, that one of them has the confederate flag on their shirt, now that's a rebel!

federica

...and the expression of those around her... the sidelong glances... seem suspicious and disdainful....

What is she holding, by the way.....?

zombiegirl

federica said:

...and the expression of those around her... the sidelong glances... seem suspicious and disdainful....

What is she holding, by the way.....?

There is a man behind her (on the left side) with the same item facing up so that you can see there is a shallow groove in it. My guess it is some sort of cup or something perhaps that you grind herbs in? I have no idea.

BhanteLucky

Her name is Yui Takagi, she's a Japanese porn-star, and it's a publicity photo from the porn film "Naked Continent 6". No, that's not a link to the film, boys. It's the wiki article about the film.

And the second photo of the young soldiers with the wedding dress... they are Liberians, (no, not LIBRARIANS, Liberians, from Liberia)...
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_gist/2003/08/scare_tactics.html

An administrator at Cuttington University College tells a story of Taylor's forces storming the rural campus during the initial stages of the war in "wedding [dresses], wigs, commencement gowns from high schools and several forms of 'voodoo' regalia. … [They] believed they could not be killed in battle."

According to the soldiers themselves, cross-dressing is a military mind game, a tactic that instills fear in their rivals. It also makes the soldiers feel more invincible. This belief is founded on a regional superstition which holds that soldiers can "confuse the enemy's bullets" by assuming two identities simultaneously. Though the accoutrements and garb look bizarre to Western eyes, they are, in a sense, variations on the camouflage uniforms and face paint American soldiers use to bolster their sense of invisibility (and, therefore, immunity) during combat. Since flak jackets or infrared goggles aren't available to the destitute Liberian fighters, they opt for evening gowns and frilly blouses.
The cross-dressing "dual identity" isn't just a source of battlefield bravado, though. Cross-dressing has deep historical roots in West African rites-of-passage rituals involving "medicine men" who would recommend wearing masks, talismans, and bush attire as a means of obtaining mystical powers. Rebels dressed in gowns and wigs and adorned with bones, leaves, and other "forest culture" trappings are practicing a modern variation on this technique of using symbolic "clothing" to access sources of power far stronger than their own. And in common Liberian initiation rituals—which exist in memory throughout the country, if not always in practice—a boy's passage to adulthood is symbolically represented by the donning of female garb. He must first pass through a dangerous indeterminate zone between male and female identity before finally becoming a man. A soldier dressed in women's clothes—or Halloween masks, or shower caps, etc.—on the battlefield is essentially asserting that he's in a volatile in-between state. The message it sends to other soldiers is, "Don't mess with me, I'm dangerous."

Liberia's adult warlords appropriated and updated these rites-of-passage rituals in order to form tight-knit proxy fighting forces. The strongmen persuaded impoverished youths to join their battalion by offering them the chance to be part of a secret society and attain supernatural powers. In a country where the young had few if any options, this was seen as an opportunity to "be somebody."

After Charles Taylor's Cuttington University attack, other offshoot Liberian militias vying to control the country embarked upon similar gender-bending rampages. One of the more notorious henchmen of the era was Joshua Milton Blahyi, a commander whose nom de guerre was "General Butt Naked." Hired for his ferocity by rebel leader and Taylor contemporary Roosevelt Johnson, his "Butt Naked Battalion" consisted of drug-fueled teens who went into battle in flowing dresses and colorful wigs. The general himself reportedly wore only laced-up boots and his weapon.

Not surprisingly, these troops became poster children for the war. Dressed in gowns and shower caps and "fortified by amphetamines, marijuana and palm wine [they] sashayed irresistibly for photographers,"
Between 1989 and 1997, 150,000 Liberians were murdered, countless others were mutilated, and 25,000 women and girls were raped.

federica

Charming.........

BhanteLucky

Yes, it's not very nice. One is hardcore porn, the other is child soldiers who commit hideous war crimes and have had hideous war crimes committed upon them.
Yet the pictures are lapped up as curiosities, and displayed side-by-side in the west, divorced from any hint of their true nastiness and repugnance.