On Jun 12, 2009, at 10:56 AM, raunchydog wrote:
I certainly believe in free speech,
As long as it doesn't conflict with your narrow definition, right?
and I'm opposed to censorship of entertainment and the arts. But just as we don't allow our children access to pornography,
We' were talking about adults...or is the idea that throwing in a little NS showing your non-existant, hypciritcal "concern" for kids...oh, the children! We must protect the children!... will innoculate you? Dream on.
as a culture I believe we can and must make more intelligent choices for ourselves by raising awareness and denouncing instances of sexist as well as racist stereotypes. We have become a society of voyeurs, watching the train-wreck of mutual destruction. So inured are we to the self-inflicted damage we do to each other, David Letterman thinks nothing of making a joke that implies the rape of Palin's 14 year-old daughter.
He was talking about Bristol, genius, which he explained and would have been obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense.
How small, how shallow we are that we are so trained, so jaded that we accept such a low opinion of women that we so easily laugh at misogynistic "humor." Pathetic.
You certainly are. Sal
