MGD opened this issue on Feb 11, 2008 ยท 45 posts
SevenOfEleven posted Thu, 14 February 2008 at 12:37 PM
For Americans, we love our violence out in the open and the sex in the bushes.
Hoo Ra!
My first movie was "The Wild Bunch", the only thing I remember is the poor guys with bullet holes in them complaining about how bad they feel.
My spin is that people should not be exposed to stuff they don't want to see or hear if possible.
Not sure how to enforce that but people should have some choice or control.
Would not want to see models exposing their butt cracks in a clothing store or seeing pictures of a naked women/men when I am buying pants. Does not seem right. If you are shopping with someone of the opposite sex, then it just makes shopping worse. "Is he checking out the naked people or is he paying attention to me?'.
I don't think that store is innocent, they knew that the uproar would bring in more foot traffic.
For a store not being talked about is worse that being talked about. I figure they make some noise for a while, generate some buzz and everyone is happy.
There is a clothing store called Fcuk, I bet their products are not that much better than other stores but the name makes the items special. Who has not felt the allure of wearing a hat, jacket or t shirt that says "Fcuk you"? I would not want to wear that stuff in the subway, could lead to a trip to the hospital.
On the other hand, there are always going to be folks that have nothing better to do but to control how you think and interfere. They fuss about books, games and other things. The Harry Potter books became so popular that somebody had to write a book saying that the books are not a threat to raising religious kids but could be a gateway book gasp to more religious books.
Unlike Einstein, lots of people like things too complicated or too simple.