The Brits incredulity

I may be the only one who finds the Brits incredulity of decency standards interesting:



"The panic that is gripping American TV bosses facing a puritanical backlash or exorbitant government fines has today extended to a cartoon series and a BBC drama."



Notice how the article describes "puritanical backlash," as though only stodgy old Puritans would find gratuitous nudity unacceptable. The major networks, and the FCC, need to realize that the problem with decency goes far behind scattered behinds and exposed nipples. There is a penumbra of obsenity surrounding TV. Most television shows promote standards that are far outside the mainstream of America. I doubt that most Americans accept the rampant premarital sex, extra-marital sex, homosexuality, disrespect, prodigallity, vulgarity, narcissism, hedonism, and shallowism that is prevelant on most network and cable shows. How is it that the only words that are off limits are the F and S words? How many times each night will you hear the word bitch (pardon the frankness)? I find that word extremely offensive and derrogatory, especially in the context in which it is most often used. I don't care if it is used in a "humourous" setting." It is despicable. How many times each night will you hear someone approach one of the two taboos, only to be cut off at the last second? Is this any more decent that the full use of the word? How many times each evening will you hear all sorts of deviant sexual behavior describe in rather explicit terms? Is this any "cleaner" than if they had showed the behavior? How many different euphamisms for sexual oragans will you hear each evening? Television is riddled with smut. To deal with only specific types of smut is merely perfunctory.



Signed,

A Stodgy old Puritan.