When you renew your membership as I do each year EAA sends you a sticker, ( I prefer a new card but anyway) and a brochure. The brochure has 8 sides with photos of different members, one is a friend Tom Frasca standing by his plane, and we just were at a forum with Tom on the North 40. But one of the photos sets a bad example, it shows "W. D. Lewis" leaning on the prop of his Cessna TR182, if the engine were to fire he'd lose a hand. This is a bad precedent from a safety point and from people who probably know better if theyd stopped to think. We often see photos like this, but its not the right way. I own a Beechcraft and almost every issue is someone is standing in a lethal prop arc.. And its not unheard of, I know of 2 people killed that way and 1 person in the very safe Young Eagles program.
Maybe Im too sensitive to this, but I think if we belong to a hunting group and they sent out photos of people looking down a gun barrel it would get attention. If EAA has a photo of a Young Eagles program they dont show the kids with a cigarette pack in their hand.
There's enough inherent danger in flying, let's not overlook something easy to do right like prop safety.