Minor Axis
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Last night we were watching a show on SciFi called Dark Corners. It did not hold our interest but it was about this girl having bad dreams/visions. In one of these visions there was a church with a naked woman laid out on the alter who had been bloodily murdered. I noticed she was in a body suit. Then in a matter of seconds later a graphic depiction of someone getting their throat cut, watching the flesh separate as the blade passed.
What is society's hang up with the naked body? What kind of standard allows the showing of the most graphic violence, but we can't show a female breast, because that is lewd? This standard bleeds over into many parents views. It's ok for Johnny to see a war movie with graphic injuries, but heaven forbid he see any graphic depictions of sex.
Is it because as a standard we are not worried that Johnny will become addicted to violence, but he might become addicted to sex?
Even in video games it's ok for Johnny to blow people up in a war game, but OMG, can't have Johnny playing the Hot Coffee mod in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (an R rated sex mini-game).
There was a case where this grandmother was going to sue Rock Star Games because she bought GTA:San Andreas for her grand child. Get this, the package was marked "Mature" for violence sexual themes. If you're not familiar, you play a kid from the hood, who lives a life of robbery, and murder of innocent people. Actually you decide whom to kill, but in some circumstances it's just easier to pull the trigger. So this concept is ok with the Grandmother. But when word hits the media of the Hot Coffee Mod, she has a fit. My god, a sex game! Anyone else see a disconnect here?
I realize that some conservative groups have attacked depictions of violence in video games. I have no problem with restrictions on kids, but they want to ban violence in games for everyone. The Columbine High School killers were accused of being motivated to kill because they played Doom. Well if they were readers, they might have been accused of going on a killing spree for any number of novels such as your average Stephen King story. Whole sale censorship is a very slippery slope. If you start banning video games, next you can look at movies and books.
So is this a U.S. moral standard, a U.S. media standard, or both? We've got some serious hang ups when it comes to sexual depictions compared to most other countries and what they allow to be broadcast on public TV.
What is society's hang up with the naked body? What kind of standard allows the showing of the most graphic violence, but we can't show a female breast, because that is lewd? This standard bleeds over into many parents views. It's ok for Johnny to see a war movie with graphic injuries, but heaven forbid he see any graphic depictions of sex.
Is it because as a standard we are not worried that Johnny will become addicted to violence, but he might become addicted to sex?
Even in video games it's ok for Johnny to blow people up in a war game, but OMG, can't have Johnny playing the Hot Coffee mod in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (an R rated sex mini-game).
There was a case where this grandmother was going to sue Rock Star Games because she bought GTA:San Andreas for her grand child. Get this, the package was marked "Mature" for violence sexual themes. If you're not familiar, you play a kid from the hood, who lives a life of robbery, and murder of innocent people. Actually you decide whom to kill, but in some circumstances it's just easier to pull the trigger. So this concept is ok with the Grandmother. But when word hits the media of the Hot Coffee Mod, she has a fit. My god, a sex game! Anyone else see a disconnect here?
I realize that some conservative groups have attacked depictions of violence in video games. I have no problem with restrictions on kids, but they want to ban violence in games for everyone. The Columbine High School killers were accused of being motivated to kill because they played Doom. Well if they were readers, they might have been accused of going on a killing spree for any number of novels such as your average Stephen King story. Whole sale censorship is a very slippery slope. If you start banning video games, next you can look at movies and books.
So is this a U.S. moral standard, a U.S. media standard, or both? We've got some serious hang ups when it comes to sexual depictions compared to most other countries and what they allow to be broadcast on public TV.
