Cable TV
I wrote this some time ago but just watched the same special and thought I'd pitch this back into the crap factory. Enjoy!
This writer's work might not be appropriate for young children therefor this article is rated PG-13 by the writers mother. Here's the deal. I don't watch enough television to know what should or should not be shown on a fairly popular appliance that seems to raise more children than the people who spawn them. I'll watch sports, Myth Busters and an occasional titty movie.. when I can get away with it. For the most part, I think the virtual babysitter is pure crap. Reality T. V. is probably the most useless type of mind masturbation available. When Lord, when? When will you give me back my American Gladiators? Cops is an decent enough surrogate ergo my willingness to become uncontrollably attached to the screen like Velcro. What the hell. I paid for the damn thing. FYI, the point of this story is to present an important sociological quandary.
Moving on, I was watching a show on the Discovery Channel on tattoos. The young, the old, the large, small, Portuguese and so on, with a universe of ink to display. Some of these fine, upstanding individuals had over 90% of their bodies covered with art.. pretty impressive if you ask me (keep in mind, I have no tattoos). Now where things became interesting is when they presented the female breast cancer survivors.
Now before I go on, let's keep in mind we're all adults here (and if your not, tell your parents I said to keep a better eye on you) and I am in no way, shape, or form making light of something as serious as cancer. And remember we're discussing television, I think. So there.
At any rate, apparently some survivors are foregoing the breast implant and opting for a chest tattoo . I think this is a fabulous idea and it really seemed to help these women with the mental rehabilitation that comes with cheating death. And as I watched this, I began thinking, they are showing a woman's chest at 8pm on a Sunday on national television. Unheard of. Now it wasn't exactly a scene from Benny Hill, but it was indeed a woman's chest. Let's hear more..
Now in many European nations, it is perfectly acceptable and usually probable that skin will be shown on television at any moment. But not a lot of violence. Here in the States, we have prime time programming that shows us how to look for pubic hairs in a rape/murder crime scene, but no boobs. Most, not I, witness the first prime time ass a few years ago but it belonged to a horribly out of shape man in his fifties. Something's weird, askew.. amiss and not in the sense of crime statistics (the good ole United States has lower crime rate per ca pita than most of the modern nations combined) but rather in what we find offensive or in bad taste.
I just viewed a woman's chest and it was okay because there were no breasts but it's acceptable to gaze upon a fat man's man boobs. And then it made me think that maybe we, as Americans, don't have the double standard that makes our television what it is and that boobs are, in fact, evil and are best kept in hiding so as not to turn humans into pillars of salt. And then I thought, nah.. it's just cable.
This writer's work might not be appropriate for young children therefor this article is rated PG-13 by the writers mother. Here's the deal. I don't watch enough television to know what should or should not be shown on a fairly popular appliance that seems to raise more children than the people who spawn them. I'll watch sports, Myth Busters and an occasional titty movie.. when I can get away with it. For the most part, I think the virtual babysitter is pure crap. Reality T. V. is probably the most useless type of mind masturbation available. When Lord, when? When will you give me back my American Gladiators? Cops is an decent enough surrogate ergo my willingness to become uncontrollably attached to the screen like Velcro. What the hell. I paid for the damn thing. FYI, the point of this story is to present an important sociological quandary.
Moving on, I was watching a show on the Discovery Channel on tattoos. The young, the old, the large, small, Portuguese and so on, with a universe of ink to display. Some of these fine, upstanding individuals had over 90% of their bodies covered with art.. pretty impressive if you ask me (keep in mind, I have no tattoos). Now where things became interesting is when they presented the female breast cancer survivors.
Now before I go on, let's keep in mind we're all adults here (and if your not, tell your parents I said to keep a better eye on you) and I am in no way, shape, or form making light of something as serious as cancer. And remember we're discussing television, I think. So there.
At any rate, apparently some survivors are foregoing the breast implant and opting for a chest tattoo . I think this is a fabulous idea and it really seemed to help these women with the mental rehabilitation that comes with cheating death. And as I watched this, I began thinking, they are showing a woman's chest at 8pm on a Sunday on national television. Unheard of. Now it wasn't exactly a scene from Benny Hill, but it was indeed a woman's chest. Let's hear more..
Now in many European nations, it is perfectly acceptable and usually probable that skin will be shown on television at any moment. But not a lot of violence. Here in the States, we have prime time programming that shows us how to look for pubic hairs in a rape/murder crime scene, but no boobs. Most, not I, witness the first prime time ass a few years ago but it belonged to a horribly out of shape man in his fifties. Something's weird, askew.. amiss and not in the sense of crime statistics (the good ole United States has lower crime rate per ca pita than most of the modern nations combined) but rather in what we find offensive or in bad taste.
I just viewed a woman's chest and it was okay because there were no breasts but it's acceptable to gaze upon a fat man's man boobs. And then it made me think that maybe we, as Americans, don't have the double standard that makes our television what it is and that boobs are, in fact, evil and are best kept in hiding so as not to turn humans into pillars of salt. And then I thought, nah.. it's just cable.
