Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Justin: United States of Prude

This clip from The View talking about Adam Lambert's not-at-all-shocking-yet-somehow-too-fucking-shocking-for-TV performance at the American Music Awards is enough to make my head explode.



First: They cannot show clips of what Adam did on stage.

Second: They can't even SAY what he was doing on the stage.

I'm sorry... WHAT!? Why is this SUCH a prude fucking country? Can someone please explain to me why they can't even say that "Adam pretended to finger a girl on the stage?" Tell me that none of those women at that table have ever been fingered (okay, I'm convinced that Elizabeth Hasselback had her vagina sewed up for Jesus... but besides her).

Why are we so prude, America? Why can't we simulate or even talk about sex? Meanwhile, in other countries you might see a commercial with a singing penis or Hitler date raping a woman or two cops kissing because a condom wrapper flew past their squad car in between episodes of children's programming?

I had a communications professor who railed against this very fact. People are getting killed, beaten up, murdered, and ended in tons of way on every TV show from cartoons to soap operas. We have no problem with killing here in America. But the second a nipple shows up, everyone goes into a tizzy.

Why? Why America? Because we have some old-fashioned puritan view of sex? I pray that this is an Old Guard thing and that when the Baby Boomers and their parents go to the senile old folks home, the rest of us will shake out our heads, realize we ALL have damning Facebook photos proving we're no angels, and go on to worrying about real things.

Just a thought.

xoJR
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  1. I finally watched the performance. The thing that shocked me most wasn't the kiss. It was that he grabbed a musician (I believe it was the bassist) while he was 'playing', yet there wasn't a change in the instrumental. You're gonna tell me he can maintain a bass line while getting grabbed by the back of the neck and making out? I'm not buying it.
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  2. On occasion I come across analysis so infantile that it makes me want to weep. You are ignoring some major issues, while implementing your trademark run-on/incomplete sentences.

    The View is not a reputable representation of American perspectives. At the end of the day, the objective is to entertain by means of conflict, real or unreal. Moreover, American Idol winners are expected to maintain a Disney-like image. Of course, yet again, you take a swipe at the pretty conservative, despite the fact that there are other harpies to disparage. It is as if your partisanship results in some sort of reward.

    You don’t know why we are a moral country? I would truncate De Tocqueville and Democracy in America— but it would be a waste of time, given that such an effort would be exacerbating. We are not Europe; it is something that we take great pride in. One nation under god is not a simplistic affirmation. Our country was established as a moral one, different from the savages of Europe or anywhere else.

    George Carlin was a flawed man who criticized violence on TV, versus broadcasting lovemaking. One display is particularly vile, while the other is beautiful? This would be true, if only such juxtaposition existed in a vacuum (like most of your lamentations). Violence always has a penalty, whether it is an anvil on a cartoon cat or mass murder on CSI. Pornography is not lovemaking; it is exploitation and the removal of efficacy. Now, romance is a ubiquitous part of entertainment, but you aren’t advocating tender dyadic moments, you prefer the mainstream production of sexual acts— devoid of consequences. If there is an objection, one is to be labeled puritan? My dear Justin, perhaps you need a refresher course in human behavior.

    Finally, I’d like to suggest you peruse the oeuvres of Frederick Engels, Giambattista Vico, and Arnold Toynbee. These three men are historians of sorts, with contrasting personal philosophies. However, they agree on what is the driving factor in the decay and demise of society. Unequivocally, the determinant is beastiality, which is the point where men no longer apply standards to existence, meaning there is no longer a generally agreed definition of what perversion is. Titus Livy wrote about the fall of the Roman Empire, and he detailed the beastiality that transpired. Countless civilizations fell because there was not an understanding of coital ethics.

    For sure, next time, include the aforementioned facts in your “thoughts” regarding society.
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