I havent loved an episode this much in a long time but tonights was a classic. Hail SouthPark! I never thought I would laugh this much again. I wonder if Paris Hiltons lawyers have been on the phone yet. One minor complaint was an ad playing over the closing credits song which was a lemmiwinks variation.
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:57:50 -0600, "That Guy" wrote:
I couldn't care less about Paris Hilton, but didn't the episode's message seem a tad bit reactionary? It was almost as if they were promoting abstinence and monogamy.
It was a message against encouraging 8-year old girls to become sluts, and ridiculing an adult who is famous solely for the fact that she acts like a slut. That's a far cry from abstinence or monogamy.
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:54:07 -0600, "That Guy" wrote:
Ridiculing Paris is fine (like Jennifer Lopez, she's an overexposed no-talent hack, and a racist to boot). But I don't see too many eight-year-olds adopting the "slut" look, it's mostly teenagers.
The question is: at what age is it acceptable for a girl to begin expressing/exploiting her sexuality through her wardrobe? (if you're a Christian or a feminist, of course, the answer is "never")
Also, at what age is it acceptable to begin sexual activity? (A Christian would respond "the age you are on your wedding night".)
Finally, is it acceptable to have multiple sex partners, and if so, how many is too many?
Do you know a Bridget? You sound familiarly inane.
Every time I'm in a mall I'm amazed at the whore-larity of increasingly younger girls. Obvious preteens are now slutting it up with the best of them. In answer to your pedantic questions: I could care less, they aren't my kids getting pregnant at 13, and age is irrelevant, it's maturity. I know 25 year olds who shouldn't be having sex with anyone but themselves.
Sorry if I seem a bit testy, but there's so much sex-negative crap coming from both the left and the right these days that when someone starts advocating a return to the days when being a "slut" and a "whore" was universally considered a Bad Thing, it gets my dander up (especially coming from someone like Trey Parker, who has obviously spent an awful lot of time and money at the Spearmint Rhino).
I agree with your point that the whole "sex is a bad thing" trip is a kind of mental illness, but I think Matt and Trey were saying that when prepubescent girls start dressing and acting like sluts before they really understand what they're getting into on account of they are trying to emulate someone on TV, their parents should step in at that point. Sex itself isn't bad, but getting into sexual behaviors such as blatant sexual displays for the wrong reasons and before you are physically and mentally developed enough to handle being sexually active, that is unhealthy.
Matt and Trey have their own ways of getting their views across and venting their anger...Wednesday nights at 10, 9 Central.
I think that applies only to TV shows, but even if it does apply to movies, I don't think the size of the credits is mandated. Reminds me of when Nickelodeon recently aired "The Rugrats Movie"; instead of using the actual credits from the movie, they do one of those "put up a strip 1/4 of the screen wide along the left side and run our own version of the credits there" things - and rather than type in all of the credits from the movie themselves, they just take the credits word-for-word from IMDB (even though they leave out a few details like who sang which songs)...
Which is more likely: (a) Paris Hilton sues; (b) Paris Hilton uses her "appearance" as more publicity?