Prime Time Porn
Megan Fox at The Intolerant Fox on Apr 04 2008 at 4:24 pm | Filed under: Feature Article
Okay. So I’m watching Clean House the other day on the Style Network, you know, the show about the people who live amongst so much clutter they’ve buried the children under boxes of hideous plastic gargoyles they think they are going to use one day, when a commercial came on that horrified me even more than the homeowners mess. Chemistry.com is a new online dating service that is gearing all of their advertising towards convincing the public that e-Harmony.com is an inferior service. Their latest commercial features a man standing in front of the camera holding a Playboy magazine with the centerfold folded out and he peruses it from several different angles. He then turns to the camera and says, “No. Still gay!”
This is to inform us that e-Harmony doesn’t allow gays in their network and Chemistry.com does. Well bully for them! But at 5pm during a family show is not the time to advertise it. There are so few shows that I’m interested in that are also suitable for children, it is an assault to be bombarded with sexually explicit commercials during them!
I’ve said it many times I don’t care what you teach your children in your own home. You, the parent, ought to have autonomy over their upbringing and care as long as it isn’t abusive or neglectful. But the powers that be are making that impossible for most of us who are trying to keep adult subject material away from our children as long as possible so that they may have some semblance of a childhood. (Unencumbered by awkward conversations regarding “why is that man wearing a dress?” at the age of 4.) To do this now, the TV must go entirely. No amount of policing can protect your child from subversive commercials you have no idea are coming!
I have written letters to the FCC, E! Network (which is the parent company of Style) and to Chemistry.com but I have little hope that any of them care. I have yet to receive anything other than automated responses. There is a serious lack of responsibility on the part of television networks. They can spit out anything and have little to no backlash. And the worst part is we’re all addicted to it! What I really need to do is get rid of my TV! But they’ve hooked me. Nothing better than vegging out in front of mindless entertainment at the end of a tough day. But I have a theory. One day it’s going to get bad enough that a lot of us are going to join TV-aholics Anonymous and give up our addictions in favor of our children. Maybe I’ll start by giving up one show at a time, starting with Clean House.
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