What's wrong in our lives?

[capt_buzzard]

The kind of trash that is pushed today on our magazine racks for our youth and adults alike has gone too far.Consider the December 2004 issue of Cosmopolitan, a highly regarded and popular woman's magazine. The word cospmopolitan means ''so sophisticated as to be at home in all parts of the world''
The titles on the cover advertise the main stories in this issue. They include "Sex Article You Must Read With Your Boyfriend" and "Caught With Your Pants Off " The titles are highly suggestive. Need we ask what message they're selling?

Its time to call a halt to this trash.......

[gmc]

posted by capn buzzard

The kind of trash that is pushed today on our magazine racks for our youth and adults alike has gone too far.Consider the December 2004 issue of Cosmopolitan, a highly regarded and popular woman's magazine. The word cospmopolitan means ''so sophisticated as to be at home in all parts of the world''
The titles on the cover advertise the main stories in this issue. They include "Sex Article You Must Read With Your Boyfriend" and "Caught With Your Pants Off " The titles are highly suggestive. Need we ask what message they're selling?

Its time to call a halt to this trash.......

No offence capn but if you don't like it don't buy it. I for one do not need anyone to tell me what I can and cannot read. Same with television, all sets come with an off button.

[weeder]

Originally Posted by capt_buzzard

The kind of trash that is pushed today on our magazine racks for our youth and adults alike has gone too far.Consider the December 2004 issue of Cosmopolitan, a highly regarded and popular woman's magazine. The word cospmopolitan means ''so sophisticated as to be at home in all parts of the world''
The titles on the cover advertise the main stories in this issue. They include "Sex Article You Must Read With Your Boyfriend" and "Caught With Your Pants Off " The titles are highly suggestive. Need we ask what message they're selling?

Its time to call a halt to this trash.......

Suggestive materials have been around always. The difference today is that they are mainstreamed, and visable. Seeing these topics, or picture, or television shows is not a choice. they are right in front of our faces. Yes its true to buy or not is an adult choice. However it is impossible for children to be shielded
from undesireable images, because they are everywhere. A glimpse of smoething unsettling or upsetting can leave an imprint that lasts a lifetime. We have been in the midst of moral decay for a very long time. One only has to examine the rise in
sexually transmitted diseases, divorce, teen age pregnancy and incestuous behavior to know this is true. Unfortunately, it wont end. It is actually only the beginning. We have no where to go but down. Anyone who suggests that the public displays of sexually suggestive material is inappropriate, is considered to be a narrow minded zealot who does not support freedom to choose.

[JAB]

Careful now...you're going down the path toward censorship of those items you consider offensive.

If so, you also have to give an atheist the same right to say that the Holy Bible on a bookstore shelf is trash and offensive to him and should therefore be removed.

[weeder]

I think that that comparison is ridiculous.. and believe it or not, Ive considered myself to be a liberal my whole life, and yet Im getting to the point where I feel some censorship might be in order. Unfortunately humans are gluttons.. given some freedom that they are unable to handle, they poision themselves. And I really dont give a rats ass if adults DO poision themselves. But our lack of self controll for instant public gratification has gotten to the point where we are injuring small innocent minds. All for the sake of the god almighty buck. I am quite a commedianne and I often use off color humor for a laugh. My conversation however is quite different when I am in the company of children, or degenerates who cannot handle the humor without spinning out of control. Lets be honest and stop hiding behind our promised rights of freedom of speech blah blah blah.. We are a society living in a sewer . Given the freedom to run our own lives we have
run amock in smut.

[JAB]

Originally Posted by weeder

Given the freedom to run our own lives we have run amock in smut.

Are you serious?! So because an individual can't apply a bit of self-restraint to his own life you want the government to make those decisions for him? And who exactly will be the Censor Police, the people who are going to decide what is to be censored or not?

Congress?

The courts?

Our clergy?

Bill O'Reilly?

Rush Limbaugh?

Yeah, like I want either of the five to tell me when I can't or cannot read Cosmo. Are we to go back to the McCarthyism type of judicial hearings where you have neighbor being asked to testify against neighbor? Have you ever lived under a Communist state where this was a daily occurrence? Members of my family have and trust me, it's not the type of life you want for yourself. Be careful of what you ask for...

[koan]

The only good way to reduce trash literature is if people don't buy it. As long as the market exists so will the product. That is free speech. If no one wanted smut it wouldn't exist. Efforts should be directed at reducing the desire for it.

[capt_buzzard]

Perhaps in Canada, But If the EU get their final say on stuff here by 2012. Its the end of free speech ect.

[samename]

imho ... this issue is like so many others ... as we have lost influence over almost all aspects of our lives ... first to the church then government and finally now the corporations

it is the lack of functional culture that allows harmful trends to develop

many people think freedom equals doing anything you like whether there is any effect on others or not

one of the most useful elements of culture is that as its wisdom is that of collective experience over vast periods of time, it has rituals and lessons for the youth that guide them away from harm to themselves or others

they learned these things along the way and seek to pass the lessons on ...

to change anything, we first have to take back control of our health,wealth,education,safety etc ...

what is going on with the way women are portrayed is seriously depressing, i grew up with feminists in my family talking about the patriarchy turning women into objects ... much to my horror it appears as if its now the older women teaching the young that to be liberated by being greedy power hungry sex crazed creatures ... what went wrong?

[koan]

Originally Posted by samename

what is going on with the way women are portrayed is seriously depressing, i grew up with feminists in my family talking about the patriarchy turning women into objects ... much to my horror it appears as if its now the older women teaching the young that to be liberated by being greedy power hungry sex crazed creatures ... what went wrong?

Let me assure you, though it is no reassurance, that I have known a number of women who equate theirs and other women's value with the "quality" of man they had caught in their nets. No man=No value. The liberated woman you describe is certainly trying to carve her niche but I am left asking...."WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MIDDLE GROUND???" I was raised to believe I was an object and told as an adult that I ought to be a power hungry crazed woman who would sleep her way to the top. I decided to just be myself...confused. HA! The question is are you who you think you are or who society told you to think you are. Which comes first?

Do these magazines etc create the desire to buy or does the buyer exist and therefore the product?