I have been thinking about this for a while but was reminded over the weekend and felt that I really had to say something about this.
In North America recently, we have been barraged with infomercials trying to sell videotapes entitled and usually blonde) girls baring their breasts on videotape. They then put all of this footage together and sell it to, well to tell the truth, I don't know who would buy this stuff.
This brings me to recall a night a couple of weeks ago, while surfing through the telly channels, I saw a video that was being presented and advertised by Snoop Dogg the rap artist. I watched the infomercial for a while and found myself really amused. Not because of the content but because, here is this African American artist selling these videotapes with his name attached to it.
Why is this amusing, you might ask? Well, here we have these vapid females baring their breasts and a black man advertising it. Why were there only white women and no visible minorities? I guess that African-American and Hispanic women are much smarter than their white counterparts. The really sad thing is that this type of stuff perpetuates the black man as a pimp. The struggle of generations of blacks seems to be on a downward spiral.
Snoop Dogg's version of Girls gone wild has received some bad press lately because Snoop enticed some very young girls to participate. What I want to ask is what is wrong with women that they would do this.
I have no problem with nudity and I am not a prude. I believe that the human body is beautiful. It is the belief that nudity equals sex that causes people to get their knickers in a knot about nakedness. It is an antiquated belief and needs to be corrected. The vulgarity comes when the naked body is presented as a form of titillation (such as what can be found in these videos) so perhaps we just need to adjust our thinking.
Well, I suppose that I should stop ranting now. My lunch break is over and I have to get back to it.
In North America recently, we have been barraged with infomercials trying to sell videotapes entitled and usually blonde) girls baring their breasts on videotape. They then put all of this footage together and sell it to, well to tell the truth, I don't know who would buy this stuff.
This brings me to recall a night a couple of weeks ago, while surfing through the telly channels, I saw a video that was being presented and advertised by Snoop Dogg the rap artist. I watched the infomercial for a while and found myself really amused. Not because of the content but because, here is this African American artist selling these videotapes with his name attached to it.
Why is this amusing, you might ask? Well, here we have these vapid females baring their breasts and a black man advertising it. Why were there only white women and no visible minorities? I guess that African-American and Hispanic women are much smarter than their white counterparts. The really sad thing is that this type of stuff perpetuates the black man as a pimp. The struggle of generations of blacks seems to be on a downward spiral.
Snoop Dogg's version of Girls gone wild has received some bad press lately because Snoop enticed some very young girls to participate. What I want to ask is what is wrong with women that they would do this.
I have no problem with nudity and I am not a prude. I believe that the human body is beautiful. It is the belief that nudity equals sex that causes people to get their knickers in a knot about nakedness. It is an antiquated belief and needs to be corrected. The vulgarity comes when the naked body is presented as a form of titillation (such as what can be found in these videos) so perhaps we just need to adjust our thinking.
Well, I suppose that I should stop ranting now. My lunch break is over and I have to get back to it.
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