What's so bad about a little skin?

South of Seattle

It bugs me that the American culture can't handle people almost nude, let alone fully nude.

I'm sure some of you have seen the video about the bikini baristas, if not : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TydNCAj9r0s

Especially when you listen to the complaining mother.

Between this, Janet Jackson, & lack of nudity in movies it's becoming ridiculous.

Pretty soon we'll all be wearing veils over our faces because someone has a mole that looks like a nipple :rolleyes:

Rant over

Smellyman2

I blame conservatives and religious nutjobs

btw - the fat mom in the tank top is more offensive.

South of Seattle

That's the easy party to blame. But even as recent as the 70's and 80's it wasn't nearly as bad. I started to notice it during the early 90's when the whole AIDS thing was being brought to light. (magic johnson, etc. . )

Sex.nudity = AIDS

Collin

Maybe they don't want to encourage that trend out of fear. Can you imagine all those morbidly obese people walking - or sitting - around in bikini's and shorts?

South of Seattle

Collin wrote:

Maybe they don't want to encourage that trend out of fear. Can you imagine all those morbidly obese people walking - or sitting - around in bikini's and shorts?

You always seem to show me the otherside of the coin

even flow?

I thought this was going to be a thread on some native indian who is giving the government a hard time.

my2hands

Hello Kelle!

ForestBrain

Collin wrote:

Maybe they don't want to encourage that trend out of fear. Can you imagine all those morbidly obese people walking - or sitting - around in bikini's and shorts?

If you lived where I live, you would not laugh, as I did not. Seriously, the thought of some of the people here in bikinis makes me shudder.

I for one am thankful people wear clothes!

josevolution

i hate the body ..

Pacomc79

as Doc Holiday would say from the movie Tombstone... "My hypocracy knows no bounds.."

That's kind of the way the US treats sex in general, as if it's some dirty little secret, they had the liberation movements, then like Americans do... took it to excess screwed it up found a bunch of new bad dieseases and then went to the other extreme again.

It is kind of funny that the porn industry is so huge and all these religious cults have sexual undertones... etc. etc. while publically so many have these big problems with everything being...out in the open so to speak.

It's almost the same idea behind the drug war, some people just want to close thier eyes and ears and stick thier heads in the sand, some want to force others in line and others... don't really give a crap what other people do. There are plenty of places that don't make a huge deal of nudity and plenty of places that do, I just wish it was less contentious but that's a lost cause.

JaneNY

My only thought out of the whole thing was I liked the blonde gal's haircut and want to get it. What a silly story. People are so uptight now. South of seattle is right - there wasn't quite as much prudery in the 70's and 80's.

SundaySilence

even flow? wrote:

I thought this was going to be a thread on some native indian who is giving the government a hard time.

I thought this was going to be a thread about circumcision.

norm

oh for fucks sake!!! she thinks it's terrifying?? when the fuck will people rip their heads from their stinky asses and grow the fuck up!!!!!!!!!!!



oh and jane.....what haircut?

VictoryGin

if i wasn't so hungover i'd have more to say, but have you seen the uproar over the new/old starbucks logo?

hilarious/sad

NMyTree

It's funny how so many Americans think Muslims are nutjobs for their atire, custUmes and beliefs, but then, they see a nipple and lose their fuckin' minds over it.

Funny.

Not funny hahaha.......Funny as in what a bunch of hypocritical, lunatic, douchebags... funny.

Kel Varnsen

South of Seattle wrote:

& lack of nudity in movies it's becoming ridiculous.

I think part of that is a money thing. Some time in the last 20 years I think studios realized that teens, kids and families have a ton of free time and disposable income and are the kind of people who will see a movie more than once. Thats why theaters are always filled with crappy CGI talking animal movies, as well as stupid PG-13 action and horror movies where a well written drama directed at adults or a good and violent action movie or a true "sex-comedy" are rare. Studios know if the put out R rated movies it hugely limits the audience.

mammasan

What is truly sad is that it is perfectly acceptable in this country to expose our children to excessive violence but a woman showing her midriff is taboo.

justam

South of Seattle wrote:

It bugs me that the American culture can't handle people almost nude, let alone fully nude.

I'm sure some of you have seen the video about the bikini baristas, if not : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TydNCAj9r0s

Especially when you listen to the complaining mother.

Between this, Janet Jackson, & lack of nudity in movies it's becoming ridiculous.

Pretty soon we'll all be wearing veils over our faces because someone has a mole that looks like a nipple :rolleyes:

Rant over

I don't think there's anything wrong with it other than this: it limits who can get those jobs, it might get cold with the window open, and the girls might get burnt by the hot coffee more easily.

Cosmo

It's those 'Family Values' shitheads... you know... the ones who want all of us to be celibate morons while they are having homosexual encounter in airport shithouses with underaged male prostitutes.

Commy

mammasan wrote:

What is truly sad is that it is perfectly acceptable in this country to expose our children to excessive violence but a woman showing her midriff is taboo.

Yeah, violence doesn't even get an 'R' rating on the censorship scale, but nudity, even partial nudity puts it on the 'R' list. Even language for fucks sake is unacceptable. Violence though, have at it.

Cosmo

Commy wrote:

Yeah, violence doesn't even get an 'R' rating on the censorship scale, but nudity, even partial nudity puts it on the 'R' list. Even language for fucks sake is unacceptable. Violence though, have at it.

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Case in point... I was watching 'The Godfather' on T.V. last weekend or so and they edited out the part where that movie producer was talking about the starlet who used to be a great piece of 'stuff'... they censored out 'piece of ass'... PIECE OF ASS!!! Then, they show Sonny getting machine gunned down at the toll booth. You can let the kids see a guy getting shot by a Tommy Gun... but they dare not de allowed to hear the phrase, 'piece of ass'.
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