When I was a child Lucy and Desi, a married couple, weren't allowed by TV censors to sleep in the same bed so they had twin beds.
Tonight on TV I have been subjected to several erectile dysfunction, tampon, condom and how to talk about sex with your teen commercials. And it is 6pm, not midnight.
Oh God, how I wished I lived back in the 1950's sometimes.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
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So true Sista! So true!
My 12 year old thinks he has restless leg syndrome and that he would like to true Lunesta to help him sleep!
I couldn't agree more.
imagine my surprise when i found out my 14 year old daughter was staying up late during summer vacation to watch Nip/Tuck?! not only did i feel out of the loop (i'd never heard of it before) i was shocked once i saw it... oh my, i feel so old sometimes...
What gets me is you can have these commercials yet if a woman chooses to breastfeed her child, it has to be behind closed doors. Got to love that.
Sorry to derail the topic.
I know the first time I saw an ad for bra's on tv I flipped. I mean come on thats not something I want my kids (now grandkids) to see on TV. SO whats the deal? and how do we change it? Can we go backwards? I perfer the 50's!
I never thought I was a prude..but it does feel like nothing is private anymore.
I also agree. I am particuarly upset about how the female genitalia is portrayed. Everything is for personal odor or wettness or infections; Vagisil and douching and powers. These are not things I want to see during the commercial of a cooking show, or education show on cable(i know, few and far between). ED drugs are that same, why does this need to be spelled out on TV.
What's really fun is trying to explain to your 7 year old what erectile dysfunction is.
Are you sure you want to go back to wearing a white hat and standing any time a doctor shows up - that is if you have time to sit at all.
Things change, some get better, some get worse. The good old days are remembered through rose colored filters.
My (soon-to-be-former) usual radio station regularly plays a commercial in which the voice asks men about their urination habits and their declining sex drive. It has the disturbing habit of coming on when I'm eating. I've complained to the management to no avail. I can't believe they have to struggle for advertisers but I must be wrong.
Rogue Medic, if I lived in the 50's I prefer to think that I would be a rich doctors wife spending my days playing golf at the country club. LOL! If you knew me you'd know how ridiculous that is.
My life is already ridiculous. :-)
Oh wait, its better!!!
I got home late last night and decided to watch TV before bed and what did I see??? A commercial for Trojan finger vibrator..???!! Ok it was late (after midnight)but come on..Do you really need commercials on TV for that kind of stuff?
I was just discussing this phenomenon yesterday, and though I am far from a prude, and think there's a place for just about anything within legal limits, I was recently shocked at a music video playing on an airplane entertainment system. One thing to have it on TV, quite another to subject a captive mixed audience to a scantily clad woman behaving like a stripper.
SOMEone approved it, I am quite curious as to who.
Ha, all you youngins think that censorship was ssoooooo bad! Maybe if we had kept that level of decorum...we wouldn't have shows like "Nip and Tuck"..or the shows that appear nightly in your local emergency departments!
Steve
Wow you guys are old! I am 21 and I really don't see a problem with a bra or condom commercial. Nip/Tuck generally airs 9pm and later; maybe you should have you kids in bed by then and they would not be up watching it. Just a thought.
With your attitudes, you do still live in the 50's.
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