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Excuse me if I'm making an incorrect assumption here, but China is not your country, right?

Naomi explains that the fashion she wears is while perhaps not "mainstream", at least fairly unremarkable in her culture - and she's got video of herself walking around in public that supports that claim.

If _you_ are not capable of seeing and accepting other cultures, that's surely not Naomi's problem. It's no different from insisting your local library removes National Geographic magazines because they have images of cultures where breasts are not taboo.

"Social standards" are fine, and while you and I probably disagree on what those standards should and shouldn't allow in our respective cultures, imposing _your_ opinions of social standards on a culture you've never even visited (again, apologies if I'm making a poor assumption there) is the height of self important superiority.

And while I don't know where you're from, Doughtery's business runs out of Sebastopol - literally 50 miles away from where Folsom Street Fair is held every year. Tell me again how different his society's "social standards on how to interact socially and sexually" are from Naomi's?



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