little brown women

[billy]

On to racist/sexist poems as a whole:

If I find a poem racist/sexist, even if it is written beautifully, I would still call it a "bad poem" from my perspective. That being said, racism and sexism are both subjective concepts when talking about poems, so I think it isn't pigpen's place to disallow poems that some might consider racist or sexist. Of course, there could be some exceptions - if a poem advocates violence against a certain race/gender, I don't think that should be allowed.

as a site if we do find a poem extremely offensive we do as a last resort deal with it one way or another. again it all depends on the intent. if it showed the suffering of a victim in order to cast shame on the attacker then i doubt we'd censor it. if it broke the law we would have to censor it. personally if such things were allowed by law we'd censor it