Keep your clothes on on Family TV.
Janet Jackson bared her breast on live family TV. What exactly was the point of that? I feel she is trying to force her view of what TV should be about on me and you.
It seems today every entertainer or entertainment source is trying to push the envelope, or just plain jump across the line.
I watched an Episode of "Still Standing" last week. It's a family sitcom, so they say. The story line was about a teenage boy who didn't want to shower with the other guys. At first everybody thought that it was because this geeky teen had a small penis. But as the story unfolded, it turned out that he had a big one! Just a couple of years ago that sort of story line would never have been allowed in prime time or even late night. Imagine Andy Griffith discovering that Oppie had a big one!
Am I some kind of fossil because I think family TV should be something I feel comfortable watching with my teenage daughter, or my 6 year old granddaughter, or my mother?
Am I confused when I think that the vast majority of people in this country (world ?) want to be able to turn on the TV and not be embarrassed at what their kids are seeing?
I feel betrayed when something like the Janet Jackson Boob thing happens on a FAMILY TV show.
If Janet wants to get naked for her fans she can do a Playboy shoot like her sister did.
Just keep your clothes on, and your language clean on broadcast TV.
It's like going to the grocery store. The can says "green beans" you expect to find green beans in it. If you find peaches, you are upset. Broadcast TV is family viewing, I shouldn't find nudity in it. I shouldn't find foul language.
The Star Wars Movies, and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy are among of the most successful movies ever!
And there wasn't one foul word in the entirety of those 8 movies. Princess Leia didn't run around with her breast hanging out. She and Han Solo didn't do a nude lovemaking scene. Liv Tyler didn't have to get naked with Strider to make it clear that they were in love. Eowyn and Strider didn't have to roll in the hay to let us know that there was an attraction there,
We never saw a sign of Frodo's buns. Or Gimli's. (Thank God :) )
Stunts like this are done by stupid people who know they aren't talented or intelligent enough to come up with something people will buy without the shock and nudity and sex. This is just Jackass TV, by and for Jackasses.
From the comments section
"Phaedrus:
Centrist, huh? More lying, right wing horseshit."
Yes Phaedrus, I consider myself a centrist, or at least an independent. Of course right now the popular hype/lie is that if you support the war in Iraq you are a right wing loonie.
I've a question for you.
Is everytihing the left does rational and sound?
Is everything the right does loonie?
If you answer yes to that then you need to rethink.
And I would say the same to someone who answered yes to the following questions.
Is everytihing the left does loonie?
Is everything the right does rational and sound?
I mentioned in a earlier blog that the War on Terror is the SECOND most important issue of our time.
What is the first?
Political partisonship.
Right now in this country I see both parties putting a much higher vallue on their party than on America.
Any idea the Right comes up with the Left is against. Even if it is something that a few years ago the left was pushing for.
The same can be said of the Right.
The war in Iraq is a prime example. When Clinton was President every Democrat in the country was trumpeting how dangerous Saddam was, how his WMD were a threat to the US. How we need to do something. INCLUDING most of the Dem presidential candidates!
Now that a Replubican President has done something about Saddam, it's the worst thing in the world.
Why?
Because they can't say nice things about anything done by a Republican. That would give power to the other side.
It would be the same if a Democrat were President. Every Republican in the country would be pointing fingers.
What America needs is for our elected representatives to act like adults. To sit down and run this country in a way that is good for America. NOT in a way that is good for their own party.
Put America and the American People first.
