Exactly. "Expected". Why am I expected to act in a certain manner in public? Because of social norms derived before my time that I "have" to follow otherwise I'm being improper? No. Fuck that too. And fuck you for saying I went out of my way to insult her. I didn't go out of my way. I insulted and commented on her beliefs and how she is basically trying to impose her beliefs upon us just for a few peoples comfort by removing the freedom to use whatever avatar someone likes.
You don't have to do anything. But if you don't want to look like a disrespectful prick or pre-teen handkerchief humper, you choose to respect what offends other people. You'll get that if/when you grow up. I'm sure when you go to work you tell your boss what a fucking dick he is because the constitution grants you the right to do so. You're so nonconformist.
I also don't agree with someone using a set of tits or a big fat cock as an avatar but like I said, I DON'T CARE. It's not my avatar. I don't have to look at the avatar. It's not my right to tell someone what they can and can not use as an avatar so I don't. I don't make suggestions about it either. If someone were to offend me I wouldn't go up in arms about it because of a picture. It's a picture. Get over it. And just because you feel your system of beliefs involving nudity/sex in pictures is correct doesn't mean everyone agrees with it. So why are you trying to impose those beliefs on other people who probably don't agree with you?
see part below about 'imposing'
It's not disrespectful for someone to exercise their rights. It's disrespectful for you to get all uppety about it and try to silence someone just because you and a couple people are offended.
I'm not trying to silence anyone. You are welcome to disagree, but I am also free to judge you for it and express my opinion. It definitely *can* be disrespectful to exercise your rights, depending on circumstance. If I stand out in the street and yell "god is a spaghetti monster" in front of a minister's house, you're telling me that's not disrespectful? Right.
Also, how am I the 'self-righteous prick' when you're the type of person who goes around trying to impose your values upon other people just for your comfort of knowing you don't have to look at anything that offends you? That's being a self-righteous prick. Your post offended me but am I going to try and get arguments like this banned because I don't want to argue about this? No.
I'm not imposing my value on anyone. People are free to do whatever they like, but doing so in a public place is in fact imposing on me and others who just don't appreciate it. I wouldn't, for example, walk into a porn shop and expect anything but nudity, and I could/would never say anything about it.
You don't get the fact that it is a disrespect to do things knowing they will offend others. Obviously there is a grey area in terms of who is imposed on, from the extreme example I gave of dropping the n-bomb to, for example, fundamentalists being offended by public use of alcohol and products marketed by sex appeal. Yes, there are social norms. Without them society would be anarchy. There is no reason to not use discretion - and in this case, how is it imposing on someone to ask that they don't show tits in their g'damn avatar? You feel you must do so to 'express yourself' over the objections of others? THAT is self-righteous. How about if I wanted to show pictures of naked children, or from prisoners of Abu Ghraib, or underage prostitutes from documentary films, or of lynchings from the 50s? Would you so adamantly defend my right to do so then?