Please view the above link before you read what is written below so you know what I'm talking about and agreeing with.
I'm not one to post another person's blog entry as a link on my own site, but this one begs sharing. And, apart from a photo including the current first lady as a classy woman, I completely agree with the statements being made here. (I will keep my personal and political opinions about Mrs. Obama to myself and not include them in this post.)
Regardless, I'm appalled by how disgustingly amoral our society has become, and how yellow our mainstream journalism has become. You can't turn on a TV show anymore without someone being underdressed at least once during the episode, and you can't watch a cable network show without either nudity or some nasty sex scene. Even kiddie shows have undercurrents and double entendre's sprinkled through them. Kidz Bop is a HUGELY successful music series in which children singing the songs written by adults for adult audiences. (Some remade songs on Kidz Bop albums include songs by Lady Gaga (Bad Romance, Poker Face), Katy Perry (I Kissed a Girl, Teenage Dream), Britney Spears (Toxic, Slave 4 U) and other artists who write sexually charged music. Seriously...there is something SUPREMELY wrong with this. The major networks (minus FOX News) are permanently jaundiced when it comes to reporting the news, and now they are feeding sexualized day-time shows to our children who are clueless to the awful things they're being subjected to. I remember growing up the New Kids On The Block were huge, and they were singing songs called "Popsicle" and others that now, I realize were more sexualized than I could understand at the tender age of 8. I remember in junior high singing along with songs on the radio, Boyz II Men's "I'll Make Love To You," or Nirvana's "Sex and Candy." (I now realize that candy is a drug, but at the time, I thought it was a peppermint or a Snicker's bar.) But at least when I was growing up, people didn't have the audacity to have children sing those songs in order to camouflage the depravity. If something was for grownups, it was for grownups and America (by in large) still had the moral integrity to attempt to make sure that children weren't subjected to it. If it was a spade, we called it a spade. We didn't turn it upside down and try to convince people it was a heart.
But not anymore, and that is what the author of the other blog is in an uproar about.
And it's what I'm upset about as well. Today, when we take our kids to watch a PG movie, it is likely that we will hear every cuss words other than the F-word, and maybe the word "bastard" during the movie, and it is also likely that there will be some inappropriate jokes or even some moments of people without particular layers of clothing. Today, we turn on the radio and the songs we hear a rife with sexuality and cuss words. Our most popular musicians are rappers or R&B artists who talk about having sex, disrespecting women and parents, doing drugs, or committing crimes.
If you don't know what yellow journalism is, read this.
Today, we turn our spades upside down, slap a coat of paint on them, hide the bits that display make it a spad, and show it to our children and tell them, "Hey...maybe it wasn't a heart to start with, maybe it wasn't born a heart, but it always wanted to be a heart, so we helped it out so it could look and feel like a heart. So, if you're a spade and you want to be a heart, then you're a heart, no matter what you were born as. And if you're a heart and you want to be a spade, then you're a spade, and we can take you to a special doctor who knows how to make you a spade."
By the way...a spade is still a spade, no matter how hard you squint your eyes and wish it were a heart.
By the way...a spade is still a spade, no matter how hard you squint your eyes and wish it were a heart.
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