Random Musings..

[thelearnerx]

I don’t get why people are so upset over Janet Jackson showing her breast. It shouldn’t be considered EVIL or DISGUSTING. And I mean its not like its just breasts in general. Women show their breasts as much as they want without showing their nipples and its ok. Nipples are what are offensive for some reason, which makes even less sense because

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[thelearnerx]

If I was watching TV with my children, there's a lot more things I'd be upset about than some lady's breast. I don't believe nudity itself is a bad thing for kids to see. It's how it's presented that matters. No one complained about that girl's breasts in Titanic because it was done tastefully. During the halftime show they had women dressed like hookers dancing around in not such a child-friendly way. But no one complained about that! It's just breast breast breast breast oh my god how could she show her breast like that.. completely ignoring everything else that lacked taste and that in my opinion was much worse for children to see. It just seems like people need to get their priorities straight.. there's a genocide going on right now in North Korea, the Israelis and Palestinians are still killing each other for a piece of land.. (The Native Americans said that the land belonged to everyone, I think they should adopt that idea..).. but what do people get upset about?? Grr.. people are more upset about children seeing some woman's tit than children being starved to death for political reasons in north korea, or children being blown up by suicide bombers in israel.. come on now. People just seem to like to pretend that these horrible things aren't happening in the world. I don't get how someone who is REALLY concerned about either of those two things I mentioned could really give two shits about Janet Jackson's tit being shown on TV..

And actually.. I don't think the world is going down the toilet. I think humanity has come quite a long way and we're better now than we ever were. In my last post, I said that schools, hospitals and families shouldn't be money making institutions.. well.. now that I think about it, the media shouldn't be either. It would be much better if we somehow took away the motivation to make money on reporting. The news would be much less sensational.. Janet Jackson wouldn't feel motivated to shock crowds for money.. there would be no need to show sex as much coz "sex sells" coz you wouldn't need to be selling anything.

Also.. in Europe, they have billboards with completely naked people on them. They show what's almost porn on regular television after 9pm in Europe. Does this mean that every European child is going to grow up to be some sort of sick sexual pervert? I don't think so. I'm not saying their way is right and ours is wrong, its just food for thought.

Here's another thing I've been pondering.. nobody really comes out and says that sex is evil or disgusting. They say.. "Well, I don't think sex is evil, or that the human body is disgusting either.. but it just shouldn't be on TV.." I see a major contradiction there. If it's NOT evil, why shouldn't it be allowed to be shown on TV? Just another thing that I ponder sometimes.. It can't be for the children since european children see sex on tv all the time and it doesn't seem to have any adverse effects on them.. but then I suppose their culture is entirely different than American culture is.

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[evdogg]

your right about a few things its not the breast itself it was the tasteles dry sex (what they call dancing now a days) on stage that was appauling, as for the whole kids in korea is starving bit thats true and sad but in no way does that mean we should ignore the problems in our own society just to deal with other countries problems, there are a fair share of people doing what they can to help those kids ill bet, but you dont hear about it because it has nothing to do with sex. Now on to if its not evil why can't it be on tv? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
just because somthing isn't evil doesn't mean its appropriate? by saying that your saying that you have no problem with children watching pornography? Sex isn't evil but that doesn't mean its suitable for children im so surprised to see you say somthing like that steve you really are liberal aren't you IVE CREATED A MONSTER! lol

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[thelearnerx]

It's pretty obvious that children shouldn't be watching pornography, but I just think its interesting to ponder that as a logical statement.

Say, the given is.. "sex is not evil" and "anything not evil is ok to show on tv" and you get "sex is ok to show on tv". Now that's obviously not how it works. You said the keyword "appropriate". "Anything appropriate is ok to be shown on TV"... that actually seems like a pretty circular definition, but oh well. then you say "Sex is not appropriate".. I don't know, I just think its fun to think about.

It's also weird.. you think how horrible it would be if your kid is watching porno.. but you know damn well that's what they're doing in europe with porno on at 9 o'clock. Whatever reality is.. its something between the two extreme viewpoints of "this current generation of european children is going to grow up to be sex freaks with psychological problems because they watched porno on tv as a kid" and "porno doesn't have any adverse effect on kids at all if they watch it".

It's just a thought experiment. Kids shouldn't watch porn IMO. :)

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[evdogg]

ummm yeah i suppose its interesting to ponder but i mean it boils down to european people being scum and americans just being better then they are really so i dont get you point.....jk