The FCC Won't Let Me Be

America in this day and age really reminds me of America back in the 1950s. What I mean is, instead of progressing forward with certain ideas, it seem like we are reverting back to what was once familiar. The FCC has gotten tougher with its laws over what can and cannot be shown or said on television. The parent’s councils that are so prominent are making a big deal of things that if it was another country would never have even been brought up. There is a big problem with nudity here, that nothing can really be shown, because oh no what will the children think! (Though parents, honestly your child knows way more than they let on). Do not even get me started on the idea of both sex and homosexuality. Both of which are a big no no around these parts.

Back not even 10 years ago, it seems like both movies and TV shows were a lot riskier than they are now, with everything that I stated above. There were more gay characters and yeah, more implied sex in TV shows. In Buffy, they even had one of the main characters, Willow, come out as a lesbian, and have multiple girlfriends and everything.

Twilight, like always was bound to come up. Twilight is doing nothing to advance our thinking on sex. Stephanie Meyer, the author of Twilight is Mormon. She does not believe in sex before marriage. Her books are all about waiting to have sex. She managed to make the one thing that has always been free, that is basically a symbol for sex, and turn him into something completely different. Girls now think it is completely okay for them to have a boyfriend who wants t wait for sex. That is not a bad thing. Edward, the main character, is manipulative, bossy, and is basically an abusive boyfriend in the making, and Bella just goes along with it, because she is in love with him. What kind of message is that telling to all the teens that read the book or watch the movie? That it is totally ok for your boyfriend to treat you like crap, because he “loves” you.

I have a big problem with that. I want the United States to be up to par with the European countries that do not make sex, nudity, and swearing on TV a big deal. We need to stop worrying so much about what’s being shows to our children and start thinking a little more about what is going on with the economy and the country in general.