airplane sitcom
On the airplane yesterday they played an episode of Two and a Half Men. I was listening to my ipod, not the TV show, but ya can't help but get the visuals. The blonde woman's cleavage was like an additional character.
In what way is that appropriate to show to the children on the plane?
In what way is that appropriate to show to the children on the plane?
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I'll admit that some of it is funny (as in makes me laugh at how stupid (Charlie Sheen)the uncle is), but it's a disgusting show which has the uncle spending his life looking for another lay, and the (Jon Cryer) divorced dad trying to be nice and always failing at getting the girl. (The mother turned gay and lives with another woman, so the dad feels very wounded.) The smart-mouth kid idolizes his uncle, and I have yet to see any redeeming quality on any of it, which is why I don't watch it anymore.
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Of course, in order to get shows appropriate to show kids, they'd need to pay Disney, or use stuff from the 60's, I think. Almost all of it is so centered on sex anymore that it's disturbing.
If real doctors were like the ones we see on TV these days, we'd all be dead from malpractice by over-tired residents and they'd all croak from VD. The shows have them incestuously sleeping with all the interns and med students, and each other, non-stop!
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Sex don't generally bother me as much as crassness*, insults, and violence. Of course, this puts me on the opposite side of the going scene at the studios. (Side example: Eliza bought a Jay Leno Jokes for Kids book at a recent book fair at elementary school. I had to explain what breast implants were and how they figured in a joke about Beverly Hills.)
I suspect that Two and a Half Men has plenty of crassness, considering it's a popular evening show.
*Granted, crassness often includes cleavage presented like some kind of sideshow, as you describe.
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As a teacher in a middle school, watching the behavior of our youngest teens, I am very concerned about how nonchalant the media are about sex. Some of these YOUNG (11-15) kids are casually experimenting with sex because that's what they see in the sit-coms. They are also getting pregnant and catching diseases. I know of at least one 12 year old mother. Who knows how many others have experienced a quiet abortion already? Is this what we want or need for our young ones?
If they need to show this kind of programming, they need to (at least) emphasize the buying of condoms, what happens when you catch VD, and all that too!
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They show what sells ads, of course. Responsible parents wouldn't let their kids watch these things, but the supply of responsible parents is never very large.
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No, it appears that it is not. Thank God for the few of you.
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