More women in STEM like sexycyborg, pretty please?
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TobinL: I am just old and cranky and cant see where that is functional as clothing
Ok. We got āmaybe Iām just old fashionedā¦ā slut shaming.
milliefink: Which doesnāt mean you shouldnāt be careful out there. Maybe itās just the big sister in me that cares about the little sister I see in you.
And the old āmotherly concern/adviceā slut shaming (with not subtle ācover yourself up you flirting whoreā gif]). Let me go tell a Western girl I am not calling her fat when I say 'I just really care about your heart health and diabetes". So no. Not actual caring or concern. Not clever. Pretty obvious to every one actually.
So lets do this.
Iāve got several thousand comments at this point. About 50% are absolute enrage. Can post if you like. Iām doing it as feminist so I have excuse to attack guys for looking at me. Iām doing it as whore to attract business. Iām all kind of boney and hideous. Itās so simple and easy itās stupid. No itās too hard I must have had a man do it and fake everything. But most important is angry. Very upset. Men and women.
No one is really talking about sexy LED clothing and itās stupid to pretend thatās the issue.
This board is poorly coded and will not let me add enough links. But there is ton of LED clothing in the West. Plenty of photo of women out door in just pasties and panties. Girls wear to parties EDC rave whatever. Much more sexy and skirts shorter than mine. Any sexy girl can just buy them on amazon no problem. And if they know their place and they do this they wonāt offend anyone.
When the original Hikaru skirt came out it showed same leg. But make child sexy. Or at least made a teenager look like child but with platform high heel. thigh high stockings and a skirt length you would never put on a child. Pictures taken up her skirt and showing panties. Pose with back arched and legs wide. But the models were cute and harmless and stupid looking. Most important? they were model and so not threatening. Pedophile bait? No problem. Because āJapanā. More traffic than me. But not one negative slut shame comment.
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Photos of shorter sexier LED clothing and skirt all over with no criticism. I wonder just what it could be that causes all the slut shaming and outrage?
So let get real. The real problem some people have is not this picture.
The real issue is trespassing.
I will return favor and share ācaringā advice with Millie. Your desperate need to with the first sentence establish yourself as higher up in some imagined hierarchy (big sister) with condescend slut shaming āadviceā will cost you opportunities to work and make friends with women who are high competent but smart enough to call you out on bullshit.
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I dunno, I say she pretty well nailed every instance on this comment thread.
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If youāre still reading here, thank you for the response, and for the advice.
Iām not at all ādesperateā to āshameā you, and I apologize for coming across as condescending.
It does bother me that all it usually takes now to shut down objections to sexual objectification of women is the hurled accusation of āslut shaming,ā but now Iām thinking that one thing I should remember is that my perspective is informed by a particular place and culture.
You seemed to say or imply on reddit that your ābig boobsā are at least in part a response to government objections to that modification? If so, again, I understand now that Iām not seeing yet how your work functions in a different context, and I again apologize for judging it from mine.
http://www.reddit.com/r/BoltedOnAsians/comments/38l575/usexycyborg_has_cute_fake_boobies/.compact
Do you have other explanations of your work in English online? The OP here doesnāt seem to link to any, just to lots of sexy pictures of you. For instance, Iām still struggling to understand why, if the DIYer portrait of you is so much more important, itās basically buried under an avalanche of the sexy ones.
First let me say it is excellent to see the creator @sexycyborg in the topic!
However, I am not 100% sure itās realistic to expect the discussion to stay completely on topic for a LED skirt when the presentation is so errrā¦ sexualized. Itās the same reason people complain about these dice.com billboard ads, isnāt it?
These are just funny billboards about tech recruiting, yeah, so whatās the problem? Why canāt we just talk about tech recruiting?
Watch this GDC panel, Brenda Romeroās section about the booth babe problem and the sexualization of E3. Very eye opening.
Why canāt it just be about X?
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I love this project. It is great to see someone follow through on an idea and document the process. Seeing the things that didnāt work and why is as important as seeing the things that did (No metal near LEDS!). I may have missed it but do you have a website other than imgur where people can follow the progress of your projects?
I havenāt had the opportunity to show this to my daughter. I think that she would love to have app controllable lighting in her clothes. Especially if she built or helped build it herself.
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No more like grumpy cause I canāt get away with that kind of thing anymore and not look stupid wearing it. My apologies if it sounds otherwise. Well I probably could never have got away with that as I have dangly bits that would show, 
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I am not convinced that wearing any particular kind of clothes - or even no clothes at all - has anything to do with sexual activity. Itās like saying that if I wear a skirt without electronics that I am āelectronifyingā myself because you decide to have the expectation of electronics where there are none happening. Claims that something is āsupposed to beā erotic (or anything else) are always pretentious, because the interpretation is subjective. Supposed by whom?
This is such a bizarre story about the ghost lights, but a true one.
I donāt even remember the exact trip, but I was driving through the middle of nowhere and stopped at the only gas station around for miles - one of those with two barely working pumps and a shack of a building.
Itās night. Iām sitting in the car while my then-husband is pumping gas.
A spotless late model white corvette with purple ghost lights appears like a vision, floating on the highway, and comes to a stop at the other pump.
Out strides a blonde woman, blonde from a bottle for sure, tanned - very, and swarthy. She was not very tall. She must have been a body builder. She was ripped, with big arms and wide shoulders. She was not a beauty, but a middle-aged woman with a distinctive look - half redneck and half something of her own creation. Every hair was in place in a shoulder length Farrah wing kind of cut with highlights.
She wore a new pair of jeans that were stiff and pressed, fresh white tennis shoes.
And an immaculate white t-shirt with her car airbrushed on it, ghost lights and all. The sleeves were rolled up neatly.
She was so awesome. I wish I had a picture but maybe my mind pic is better anyway.
Then she floated away in her chariot.
Maybe I dreamed her.
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Just because it might presumably be sexy to her, need not imply that it is sexy for you - or indeed, anybody else.
Not unlike how I can enjoy listening to some self-proclaimed āintelligent dance musicā which I might classify as not being particularly intelligent, danceable, or even music. Like anything else, it is subject to opinion, and depends who you ask. The labels and pretense are not interesting, because the creation and appreciation of the work are essentially individualistic.
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Mod note: Final time, stay on topic.
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Itās gone, as it should be.
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I did.
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Canāt believe I failed to notice this bit
- I can sample my outfits color- even multiple colors and coordinate my skirt to those colors.
- I can set specific colors that match certain holidays- red and yellow for Chinese New Year and flash in the pattern of lucky Chinese numbers. Red White and Blue for a 4th of July BBQ with my foreign friends. The team colors at a sporting event.
- If I set my phone up as a open wireless AP, and have the skirt colors change or brighter depending on the number of connected wifi clients (and so crowd size).
- Chinese girls love to wear matching outfits on a girls night out. Not only can our skirts match colors, they can chance in sync or strobe in complex patters across a group.
- We can use the skirts to coordinate complex group dance patterns or games of tag.
- It can be used for speed dating meetups- if you approach a girl with a lot of shared interests her skirt glows green, otherwise it glows red so you are saved the embarrassment of trying to make conversation with someone you have little in common with.
which is awesome. Maybe video footage?
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some other good ideas for LED fashions here at the Maker Faire 2015 wearable fashion show:
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This is fucking fantastic. Thanks for sharing @sexycyborg
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No one has mentioned the safety aspect of such clothing.
Oh, this should be good. And what, exactly, is the safety aspect to which you are referring?
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