Posted on 12/29/2008 8:05:34 AM PST by NYer
Like...getting us off this rock? ;)
Cheers and Happy New Year Kevin!
You are absolutely right, and the commercials on TV as well.
Bingo....everyone tells us to simply avoid it. To do so, we will soon have to stop living. Nobody seems to see the enroachment because it’s been a slow desensitization process....
I agree with you. I simply explain that everybody has an opportunity to show class or a lack of class.
As I told my daughter at 11, there are a lot of good looking dumb broads out there who rely on looks and enticement for attraction. Develop your brain and make your candy something special to a special person; don’t make every day like Halloween and hand it out for popularity.
Now that’s a real commercial.
“Please remember that when we blindly follow our religion, we become no better than our enemies who do the same.”
Not really too concerned with what the Bible says about modesty I guess.
Well some people are, does that make them stupid?
Calling the mall manager is actually brilliant and something we can all do. Consumer pressure is about the only thing left.
Sex sells, if we want stores and advertisers to stop using it to sell, we have to stop buying it. We don’t have to let the madmen tell us what our behavior will be.
Ok that was funny (and Sexy!).
Not easy.
Yours is a typical cop out response by one who wants his 24/7 access to prurience, no matter how it is unraveling values and the backbone of our society.
The sleazy stuff is ubiquitous and unavoidable now. Last time I looked, malls were supposed to be family-friendly, not packaged for the seedier appetites.
Do you suggest kids get corralled Taliban-style— to tight little enclaves of existence ( only walk by churches Cathedrals..etc) so the underbelly among us have their sleaze fix close at hand, anywhere, anytime?
Repulsive.
It’s all in how you frame it. Like I said earlier, in my experience, the people that have issues with these ads actually have inner issues that they need to deal with themselves, but instead project their insecurities onto everyone else.
Up until about aged 11 my son used to turn his head and get grossed out when we walked past Victoria’s Secret, now (at 13) that little so&so does his best to get a look in the store. I try to cover his eyes and he says “MOMMM!”
Makes me want to put in a load
The all-sports radio station in NYC has E.D. commercials all day long.
I guess selling sexual aids to audience with children in it is considered "normal" now.
Strange.
We really are moving toward a porn culture. Shops in the mall (not just Victoria’s Secret) have overtly sexual displays and merchandise (ever go into a Spencer Gifts?). Even “mainstream” bookstores sell overt porn. And I’m no Puritan about this stuff—I don’t want it banned, just kept in a place where it isn’t so overt. I agree there are no easy answers. I guess we have to raise kids right so that when they see these things, they will understand them in context and understand that, while there is nothing wrong with a naked human body, that they shouldn’t respond in the wrong way to these mall displays.
Good for you!
I hope more people do as you did.
And your sense of humor saves the day.
It seems a majority of people have lost all sense of themselves as legitimate-— I mean that people in genereal seem to think that television and the media have all the authority. That we are peasants and have no right to complain. That the big corporations, and media and advertising are somehow the great Authorities against which we have no recourse. We have to accept anything they throw out.
The only other way is avoidance. Slink away and don’t make a fuss.
We have to stop thinking like that.
Oh get real.
This stuff is kudzu, it is crawling everywhere—perhaps broaden your perspective beyond 24/7 convenient titillation and see the impact.
The world you grew up in is being altered and not for the good. For the commoditizing of humans—flesh as the currency.
Mainstreaming it is where it runs off the rails into the swamp.
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Well, at least the Muslims with their women covered up in burkas have the right idea. Of course, behind their own closed doors they take them off. It’s just that they don’t want other men in public to see them.
I wonder how Victoria’s Secret would look with the latest fashion in burkas... LOL..
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