Burton Love and Primo snowboards

[edyzmedieval]

As an owner of one of these nice boards (the Love 58 with the tennis girl on), I find it very surprising that people are voicing their concern, suing Burton and sending massive amounts of letters of complaints towards the American company.

Ok, with Primo I can understand. Mutilation shouldn't be condoned at all, however artistic it may be.

But what's wrong with the Love boards? I asked a friend and he told me they complain because they think we are using women as pleasure items. Well, what has Burton to do with this? The girls have been in Playboy already, in the 1970s, and they just put them on the boards. What's wrong with that?!

For more info, check this:

http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081201/BIZ0102/812010353/1041&nav_category=

http://www.nowpublic.com/sports/burton-snowboards-love-model-featuring-playboy-pics-spark-anger

[Vladimir]

Women as pleasure items? How uncouth! :toff:

[Crazed Rabbit]

I agree fully - snowboarding is scandalous. Sadly, my home mountain happens to be one of the biggest snowboarder mountains in the world.

Seriously, maybe people don't want to see porn when they're on the mountain. Snowboarders are offensive enough as it is.

CR

[edyzmedieval]

I agree fully - snowboarding is scandalous. Sadly, my home mountain happens to be one of the biggest snowboarder mountains in the world.

Seriously, maybe people don't want to see porn when they're on the mountain. Snowboarders are offensive enough as it is.

CR

How uncouth! Snowboarders offensive? Why so?
What's the moutain? I'm coming.

[LittleGrizzly]

PC run amok!

[naut]

Two questions? How much do they cost? And where can I get one?

Oh yeah and an obligatory outburst: THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

[Seamus Fermanagh]

What's the moutain? I'm coming.


The pics aren't THAT graphic.....are they?:smartass2:

[Lord Winter]

How uncouth! Snowboarders offensive? Why so?
What's the moutain? I'm coming.

They clog up the hills, sit down in the worst spots possible and scrape the snow off of everything. Not that all snowboarders are bad, just the vast majority.

[Strike For The South]

The pics aren't THAT graphic.....are they?:smartass2:

You're nothing but a dirty dirty old man....and I love it:laugh4:

[Seamus Fermanagh]

You're nothing but a dirty dirty old man....and I love it:laugh4:

....eh? What was that? Speak up sonny, I can't hear you when you mumble like that.....

~;)

[Crazed Rabbit]

To elaborate;

Growing up, I was surrounded by snowboarders. It was the cool, new thing to do. My high school sent three busloads of kids up to the mountain every Saturday in winter, and there were less than a dozen skiers in total.

And all those boarders thought they were the coolest thing since sliced bread. They'd put on their outrageously oversized coats and pants and go down runs they couldn't handle. And being unable to carve down the black diamonds, they'd instead slide straight down, scraping off the precious powder. At the bottom, I suspect, they'd congratulate themselves for making it down such a steep run.

Or they'd go and hang around the terrain park, which wasn't nearly as bad since then they weren't in the way. But there'd be clumps of them scattered across the jumps like sheep. The stupider of them, and there were many, would sit down on the hill beneath a jump, oblivious to the danger of a person coming off the jump and hitting them. Or they'd sit around in clumps on the mountain side, clogging it up and making it more difficult for people who actually wanted to go down the run instead of paying $40 to sit snow and talk.

Though that craze has died down a bit, there remain those who snowboard because its cool, marveling at their own awesomeness as they scrape sideways down a mountain, robbing me of the precious powder.

That's why I bear a grudge. As for what mountain, google "Banked Slalom". It is the first result.

And the boards - I just don't want to see it while I'm on the mountain. It's crass and rips the majesty of the mountainous environment away. Are snowboarders so ruled by their...hormones...they can't go a half day without looking at scantily clad women?

CR

[HoreTore]

Seriously, maybe people don't want to see porn when they're on the mountain.

So? Why should we care?

People have a right to express themselves however they see fit. Don't like it? Leave quietly.

[Crazed Rabbit]

And other people have a right to complain to the operators of ski resorts so that nudity and graphic self mutilation images are restricted from the lifts being run by the private companies.

Skiing areas are places of beauty, and I'm not going to sit and say nothing while that beauty is tarnished.

CR

[edyzmedieval]

But how can beauty be tarnished? The girls were in Playboy in the 1970s, so what's wrong with that?!

[HoreTore]

And other people have a right to complain to the operators of ski resorts so that nudity and graphic self mutilation images are restricted from the lifts being run by the private companies.

Skiing areas are places of beauty, and I'm not going to sit and say nothing while that beauty is tarnished.

CR

Newsflash:

Private companies are also bound by the laws concerning freedom of speech.

As a society, we can't ban everything we don't like.

[Strike For The South]

This is all I think about when I hear about snowboarders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO2Abp0FbA0

XTREEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMMEEEEE

[drone]

To elaborate...

Pretty much my thoughts on snowboarders as well. Although some (more surfer type than skate rat type) are ok, they know what they are doing and can both carve and surf the backcountry powder really well.

The vibe I got at European resorts was a little different. There was definitely less of the skate rats, generally the snowboarders there were both competent and more considerate.

Regarding the board graphics, meh. I suppose it's something interesting for them to look at while they are riding the lift. And I think I still have that issue with the centerfold from the bendbulletin link. ~D

[Crazed Rabbit]

Newsflash:

Private companies are also bound by the laws concerning freedom of speech.


Um, not in this country. Airlines can restrict people with scanty clothing from flying, for example, companies don't have to let protesters into their store, etc.



As a society, we can't ban everything we don't like.

I don't want a government ban.

CR