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The remote/V-chip/channel blocking is your friend.Actually, the only thing I may have ever protested about SP is one of the more offensive things about Jesus portrayed.
The main things that concern me are those aired during prime time (which excludes SP, unless I'm very much mistaken). Those that are on during times when children are likely to be up and watching tv need to be of a certain calibre (or at least discretion). If somebody wants to air horrible programming after 10pm (while I don't like it) I'm much less likely to protest than if it were at, say, 7pm or 8pm.
Rachel
Actually, what I'd really like is to have "channel choice", where the channels aren't bundled a certain way, but I'd pay for and receive only the channels I wanted. There's been something going through Congress on that subject, I think.The remote/V-chip/channel blocking is your friend.
Fine. Pretend you are different from everyone in the history of mankind. Or pretend there might be someone out there that can call a human being by some animal name and NOT begin to think of them in non-human (or impersonal) terms. If it makes you happy... I say go for it.
Baptist brainwashing? Just because we our more serious about our faith than you are?
RichardT said:Well his "baptist brainwashing" was uncalled for as well.
fanatiquefou said:This is uncalled for. How on earth do you have any right to declare yourself more serious about your faith than a fellow Christian here, over something so silly as a TV show?
Err, from which place?Not necessarily literally, but those names come from someplace,
You must be kidding.and are definitely de-humanizing and de-individualizing.
Just another example, taken from real life. I happen to know a man who calls his girlfriend "mein Mäuseschwänzchen" when his love for her overwhelmes him.Mousetail?
Or report them.So firing back with equal venom is acceptable? Turn the other cheek.
Actually, what I'd really like is to have "channel choice", where the channels aren't bundled a certain way, but I'd pay for and receive only the channels I wanted. There's been something going through Congress on that subject, I think.
My dad called me kitten when I was younger - I LOVED it. He still occasionally will call me that, and never have I felt dehumanized or belittled by it - it's nostalgic for both of us, making us remember my childhood, and it makes me feel loved. My grown sister and I also have pet names for each other, that we've used since we were little. It's something affectionate and loving that's just between us - a little secret code we share that's a tangible way to show our love. I don't know what your problem is, but I seriously doubt that very many people have problems with pet names when they're used lovingly.
Actually, what I'd really like is to have "channel choice", where the channels aren't bundled a certain way, but I'd pay for and receive only the channels I wanted. There's been something going through Congress on that subject, I think.
Rachel
And where is the problem by just switching to the TV station you want and ignoring the others?
So what fanatiquefou was saying isn't completely out of line...people just need to make sure they don't lump everyone in with one group.
Well, Jerusha, that´s all nice and well, but since you are de-humanized by your husband´s pet-names, your opinion doesn´t count in human conversation anymore, anyways.My husband calls me "kitten" and "chickadee." He's used those names for 5 years. I've yet to have the supposed identity crisis it brings up, and not once do I believe my husband has called me "kitten" or "chickadee" with the mistaken impression I am a non-human.
Really, of all the things to make a stand on, be upset by, or be offended at the use at... I think a stand against pet names has to be one of the most absurd.
Why do I need to pay for (or have something delivered into my home) which I find offensive? I don't have to pay for Playboy or Maxim in order to get Better Homes and Gardens. Also, maybe I don't want my children (who are getting old enough to use the remote control) having any possibility (by changing guides to "all channels" or any other way) of seeing certain channels?And where is the problem by just switching to the TV station you want and ignoring the others?
Actually, sometimes it's about having a show taken off the air. Sometimes it's about having them "clean up their acts". Other times it's just about not wanting to pay for something I disagree with. I should have the right to spend my $$ where I want, just as advertisers and producers and tv stations do.I don't understand some people's preoccupation with having programs taken off the air simply because they disagree with them.
Nobody's forcing you to pay for tv you don't want, you make the choice and that's it. If you mean spending money on cable/satellite then get over it, when you have 500 channels there's going to be programming that you don't like and you can change the channel, turn off the tv or not pay for cable/satellite.Actually, sometimes it's about having a show taken off the air. Sometimes it's about having them "clean up their acts". Other times it's just about not wanting to pay for something I disagree with. I should have the right to spend my $$ where I want, just as advertisers and producers and tv stations do.
Rachel
Some of you guys are going to laugh at this one.....I heard something yesterday that puzzled me.
For the last couple years my parents have been taking my 15 year old brother to a very conservative baptist church to receive brainwashing. When he got home from church the one week, he was telling me that they told him that watching the show South Park was evil, and also that his favorite band Slipknot was evil as well (I'm guessing because of the profanity). When they tell him these things, I make sure to balance him out with some common sense, and he's a pretty smart kid and can already start seeing through some of their lies.....Plus, he loves watching South Park with me.
Why do fundamentalists think that "bad" words can be harmful to listen to? They're just sounds like any other word. It just seems kind of silly to me.
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