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Originally Posted by MikeK
I will never understand how swearing and depictions of sex, which are normal things that people can be exposed to in everyday life, can possibly rate as worse than depictions of violence. Censorship in america is so hypocritical.
I was watching a rerun of some ancient movie the other night, and the word "damn" had been dubbed over with the word "dang" ... wtf??? Meanwhile people in the movie were being shot, basically in cold blood.
And whenever an activist group has the word "family" in its name it is usually a fruitcake fringe group that needs a shoe to its collective nuts.
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The US's "moral center" was founded by some highly Puritan people that must have had some real sexual hangups. So America doesn't do sex the way the rest of the world does. We don't have nudity, or explicit references to sex in the general media. We don't accept gay people, mostly because "gay sex is gross".
This why sex in advertizing works so well here... you give us a little of it and we go all crazy. Put some chicks in a hot tub and you sell millions of bottles of beer. It's also why the porn industry makes billions of dollars a year here.
On the other hand... out Puritan founders didn't seem to have a big problem with violence. So since we're all hung up on sex, we turn to violence in our media as more acceptable.
Hell, look at kid's cartoons... they all depict violence as the main theme: super heros whupping the baddies, GI Joe blowing everything up (but the pilots always safely eject
)... even the "funny" cartoons have Bugs Bunny beating the crap out of Elmer, and that was from 1940! Not to mention Pokemon and all the new crap that has kids not only learning violence, but also learning to be productive consumers.
(I'm gonna run out of these
guys in this post, I know it!)
I'm not saying we should stop these cartoons, and violence on TV. I'm just saying if parents would filter this material for our kids, as well as show them sex and swearing, etc, in moderation, we'd have better adjusted adults that understand the world better and are more accepting of other people once they grow up. The world's not a perfect place... the sooner kids learn how to cope the better off they'll be. At the same time, there's no reason to allow them to grow up so fixated on one thing, like violence or sex.
It's all about moderation.