03-03-2009
03:02 PM
2 Loves
Are you kidding me? People are upset about a plane painted with a swimsuit model and calling it pornography?! This country really needs to figure out what is important and what is not. I worked in the retail video game industry for 10 years and the most troubling part of my job was the reversal of values and common sense I experienced every single day. The upcoming example I am referring to is the most common and can be validated by any person in the retail video game industry across this country, it was not and is not an isolated incident.
The game Grand Theft Auto, any version, contains extreme violence, gore, foul language, etc… it has an ESRB rating of Mature for 17 or older. In some states it is a crime to sell this game to anyone under the age of 17 without parental consent, and it has more severe punishments than selling cigarettes to a minor including loss of job, heavy fines and jail time. I have had parents and grandparents come in to purchase this game for teens and pre-teens. I explained the contents of the game, the brutality that can be done and the reality of beating someone to death in this game, but it doesn’t matter to them at all and they still want to purchase the game for the child. Then I mention to them that there is also nudity in the game and then they get upset and say, “No way! Not for my child!”
So the conclusion I have from this, is that it is ok for a child to witness or virtually participate in acts of extreme violence and murder. As soon as a naked breast, something that is natural and beautiful, something that every child who has ever been breast fed has already seen, something that throughout their life they are most likely going to see again, becomes exposed, people all of a sudden have a moral issue.
In the situation with Southwest, this plane displayed a Swimsuit model in a tasteful, artistic manner and pictures similar to this can even be seen on TV or in any of the fashion, tabloid and intimate apparel section in a department store catalog, and yet people are getting upset. Wake up people; in other countries it is common for families with children of all ages to go the beach, which are primarily topless, and spend the day. Advertisements and billboards may display the occasional topless woman to promote a product. The human body is a natural and god given thing, unlike violence and murder, teach your child what to respect and what is wrong. Here in this country we feel we are superior to the rest of the world in many things, but in this respect, the rest of the world is laughing at us.
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