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Originally posted by DoggyStyle82
Thanks for speaking up, even when you know your audience doesn't want to face the truth. Society swims deeper in the toilet, but when one has the nerve to stem the tide, they are chastised. As I watched the Super Bowl, I was embarrassed for those who watched it with children. Why should you be forced to explain to a 7yr old girl what a four hr erection is.? Why so many scatalogical commercials? Why choose half-time entertainment with suggestive lyrics and inappropriate performances? 60% of American tv sets were tuned to the game. Of course families with children are part of that audience. I don't want Lawrence Welk, but why cursing, desecrating flags, bumping and grinding and nudity? MTV and BET (Viacom) is getting rich while taking our youth culture to hell and all we can do is deflect responsibility by saying "there are worse things". Thats what the cultural degradists want to hear. Since there are no standards, anything goes, because we have all been so jaded that we have seen worse.
MTV was a bad choice of producers and I'm sure that the NFL exec that signed off on that is out of a job.
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I don't think anyone is not facing the truth, I just think some people are looking at the bigger picture. I agree with you in being sick of the filth on television (movies, music, etc.), but I think we need to fight some of the other things that are more commonplace in our children's lives, like the violent, sexually explicit video games that many of us allow our children to play, or the music videos they watch, for example. I think that those video games, or music videos, or sexually explicit billboards, etc., etc., have a more lasting impact than Janet's performance. I'm not saying to accept the filth; I'm just think we should fight the bigger fights. Like you stated above, it was all in bad taste, I agree with you. What I don't agree with is pinpointing Janet, when basically, all of it and a lot more we deal with on a daily basis is disgusting.