Originally posted by lazs2
A reasonable man would not find a show obcene that was adults only and was described beforehand and yu had to pay to get into..
Any other examples?
lazs
Refer back to the bathing suits and what is deemed acceptable or not.
Now Bikini and string bikini type attire back in the 1920s might have very well been acceptable back then in the hoochi koochi adult shows and Burlesque theaters back then but not deemed acceptable for children to view.
Fast forward now.
Go to virually any beach on a hot summer day and you will see people dressed in bikinis, and string bikinis. and in some places even less. Children or no children.
My guess is like it or not 50 years from now the F word or even the c words wont raise so much as an eyebrow. if that.
and some other group of people will be having the exact same arguement only about different words.
On the other hand we could start heading back in the other direction back to our puritan ways.
Throughout history these things tend to run in cycles from ultra conservative to ultra liberal and back again.
But I dont foresee it getting any cleaner within our lifetimes.
This whole notion of "protecting our children" has gottent to the point of absurdity. While yea we should protect our kids from some things. it gotten way out of hand
We now tend to try to protect our children to every little thing.
and that woould be cool if the rest of the world all played by the same rules.
But it doesnt. In the end we really end up protecting them from nothing as at some point they have to deal with the real world.
and the real world isnt some shangrala where everyone is fair and kind and only wants to make nice nice.
The real world is cold and unfair, largely uncaring, vulgar, obscene eat or be eaten and by and large an "unreasonable" and offensive place to live.
In short. the world is by and large a mean unfair nasty "unreasonable" place broken up by moments of bliss
I'd rather have my kids learn to be hardened to it then unprepaired and shocked by it.
You adapt to your elements. The elements do not adapt to you.
Now that doesnt mean I go out of my way to expose my kids to all these things. I dont. but I dont go out of my way to try to sheild them from it either.
And anyone with a kid older then 12 who honestly beleives "their" kid doesnt use foul language on a regular basis is living in a fantasy world.
they may not be using it in front of you. But you can bet the farm they are using it.