QUOTE(carbuncle @ Sun 29th January 2012, 1:49pm)
Van Haeften put the image on their WP user page. They were making a point. They knew that some people would be offended by that particular image of a nude adolescent (more so than, say, an older nude male). I believe they were saying "I can do this. You don't like it. You can't stop me from doing it. Nyah nyah".
This Van Haeften feller is unusually narcissistic, even for Wikipedia. I realize that it's always been standard procedure on WP to blame others and try to distract people from the fundamental issue when caught red-handed doing something that's clearly against the rules, not to mention being against common sense or even common decency. But at this point, he should really resign his admin rights at least "temporarily" pending another RFA - and given that it's WP, I also don't think it's a given that he would lose in a new RFA. He'd get a lot of opposers, sure, but he's also get a bunch of supporters from the "we should be allowed to do whatever we want, no questions asked" contingent.
As for homophobia on WR, I thought *I* was the homophobic one on WR...? Did someone replace me? I know I've been a lot less active here lately, but c'mon, can't I get just a little love here, people?