Reply #49: How does the clown face make it worse?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

If you've never seen the photo before, you wouldn't know what was going on. Would a black box be satisfactory?

And explain how laughing at a photo is doing something TO someone.

If I put my kid in a position to have his photo taken and that was used to "make fun," then I would have no one to blame but myself. Just like if I allowed my kid to play in the street and he got hurt - wouldn't I bear most of the blame by letting him put himself in harm's way?

I haven't made fun of the kid, but putting her out as a prop is dehumanizing as well, and logically how can you dehumanize someone who has already been dehumanized?

I don't take joy from the photo, and I don't enjoy the jokes, but I don't think those making snarky comments are evil. Not the same as making racist jokes and such.