I'd say your gun comparison is a little off. The images in question are not guns aimed at children, they are more comparable to instructions on how to use a gun. So, using non-sexual reference points, they are more like the talk radio guy who recommended to aim for the head of a federal law officer, a spatter movie or that guy in Kentucky who hanged Barack Obama in effigy during the election campaign (which btw involved fantasizing about doing violence to and killing a specific person in real life). Once again it seems that sex trumps violence.
Another thing that annoyed me about D'Orazio was that in her final post to that thread she once again had to swipe out against godless moral relativism, as if some godfearing folks (e.g. certain traditional societies in the Muslim middle east, but also some extreme strains of American Mormonism) have no problems with forcing girls barely into puberty into marriage and sex.
And where does one stop? At "Occasional Superheroine" there was a big to-do over an "panty shot" of Mary Marvel, who according at least to one commenter is supposed to be eighteen these days (so she would not be underage). If that is seen as potentially dangerous, should people still be allowed to read and perform "Romeo and Juliet"? (Juliet is 14 years old, Shakespeare having made her two years younger than his source material). Shouldn't at least the Zefirelli version featuring a nude Julia on the morning after be banned? But at least this returns us to the Simpsons, with Edna Krabappel: "This, after I accidentally showed the R-rated Romeo and Juliet. I thought that nipple would haunt me forever!"
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Date: 2008-12-22 01:19 pm (UTC)Another thing that annoyed me about D'Orazio was that in her final post to that thread she once again had to swipe out against godless moral relativism, as if some godfearing folks (e.g. certain traditional societies in the Muslim middle east, but also some extreme strains of American Mormonism) have no problems with forcing girls barely into puberty into marriage and sex.
And where does one stop? At "Occasional Superheroine" there was a big to-do over an "panty shot" of Mary Marvel, who according at least to one commenter is supposed to be eighteen these days (so she would not be underage). If that is seen as potentially dangerous, should people still be allowed to read and perform "Romeo and Juliet"? (Juliet is 14 years old, Shakespeare having made her two years younger than his source material). Shouldn't at least the Zefirelli version featuring a nude Julia on the morning after be banned? But at least this returns us to the Simpsons, with Edna Krabappel: "This, after I accidentally showed the R-rated Romeo and Juliet. I thought that nipple would haunt me forever!"