Men Taking Up Too Much Space on the Train

a classic among public assertions of privilege
what challenge?

what challenge?

note #neckpillow

note #neckpillow

Berlin, March

Berlin, March

MTA, NYC

MTA, NYC

jpk451 asked: So, are the pictures here taken illegally by not getting permission first or are they taken legally with permission and making the photos irrelevant because that would mean explaining why the photos have been taken and therefore making it no more than posing? Because the posing therefore isn't exactly proof because it's posing.

Dear jpk451,

Thank you for your message concerning Dr. Flip-Flop. I’d like to start off by saying that Dr. Flip-Flop cannot by any established standard grant permission to be photographed, but that it is our subjective impression that Dr. Flip-Flop enjoys if not legally consents to all documentation you rightly bring up. I’m having trouble following the more technical aspects of your message concerning Dr. Flip-Flop’s posing, but I guess I’d redirect the question and ask you, sir or ma'am, whether indeed you think a rabbit such as Dr. Flip-Flop—sorry, seriously, that last one, though, right? God, look at Dr. Flip-Flop. Wait, sorry, that was a cat—maybe a friend of the inimitable Dr. Flip-Flop? Honestly, I forget what I was saying—can you write me another time, maybe in a week or two, or actually let’s just agree to wait until another picture of the cat with Dr. Flip-Flop comes out, just so we can be sure we don’t immediately have to, sigh … it’s suppose to snow tomorrow … I wonder if Dr. Flip-Flop will be at it again with the whole bunny-in-the-snow thing? Anyway, whatever, I’m over it, Dr. Flip-Flop, Dr. Flip-Flop, Dr., Flip-Flop

Etc,

Etc.

N train, Manhattan

N train, Manhattan

ian-rodgers asked: Isn't there kind of an ethical issue with posting pictures online without their consent?

yep!