Originally Posted by urleebird
Well, that's not quite absolute. You might be able to say it, but there may be consequences because of it. Try going into the Pentagon, there, and say you want to do something bad to any member of Congress. You won't be getting a straight razor in Leavenworth... :)
I was trying to make this point, with a little sarcasm, of course... Where do you draw the line? Where does it stop? How much is too much? Anywhere?
TV... babysitter? What about the kids in middle and high school who get home about 2 hours before mom and dad because both have to work? They are old enough, in my opinion, to be alone in the house for that amount of time. But, if every channel is allowed inappropriate sexual content for that age group, most of America loses out on owning a TV to cater to someone else's perversion.
Maybe if you ever have a daughter and she she gets to be 11 or 12 years old, you may change your mind about what images you are desensitizing her to. I would hope you would not want her learning how to give a blow-job at that age.
The animal programs you talk of illustrates the issue pretty good. Those programs started out years ago with a sequence showing, for instance, a lion chasing a gazelle. Once people got used to that, the program showed the lion actually catching the gazelle. When that became old hat, viewers were inticed with images of the lion actually breaking the gazelles neck. Then, after a while we get to see the whole ball of wax. We get to see the chase, the catch, the grasp of the throat while we watch the gazelle die, and then we get to see the lion lick all the blood off her mouth after witnessing the entire meal. Those things are real, but maybe inappropriate for certain age groups.
If you run that on a parallel, you start out with showing breasts on the mannequin. Then, that is no longer enough and we wind up watching the extreme because everyone has become anesticized to previous images.
I still agree that the mannequin is a bit much. One of my first thoughts was that it could have been done to blur a company logo on the mannequin. Still, I think some channels should be held in a state of virginity. Wishful thinking, I'm sure.