Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Jun 03 2009
How moral does it have to be to meet readers' standards?
There's a bit of name-calling and negative spewing today concerning some material that was put up at Playboy's web site I didn't see the original material, but I'm told it had to do with remarks a writer made about proposed negative sexual behavior toward certain politically conservative, physically attractive young women. (I'm choosing not to be too graphic here. Do a search if you wish to research the topic.) What surprised me was the number of people who screeched at Playboy for allowing the writer's offensive material, and who then gave Playboy kudos for taking down the offensive material. I'm wondering why folks would demand, and then applaud, a stringent standard from Playboy in the first place. Do people think that everyone who prepares material for it has to go by some higher moral standard? It's a business filled with pictures of nude women. If that's the moral starting point, how can people be suddenly be surprised and outraged when someone takes things to the dark side?
posted at: 13:10 | category: /Arts and Entertainment | link to this entry
There's a bit of name-calling and negative spewing today concerning some material that was put up at Playboy's web site I didn't see the original material, but I'm told it had to do with remarks a writer made about proposed negative sexual behavior toward certain politically conservative, physically attractive young women. (I'm choosing not to be too graphic here. Do a search if you wish to research the topic.) What surprised me was the number of people who screeched at Playboy for allowing the writer's offensive material, and who then gave Playboy kudos for taking down the offensive material. I'm wondering why folks would demand, and then applaud, a stringent standard from Playboy in the first place. Do people think that everyone who prepares material for it has to go by some higher moral standard? It's a business filled with pictures of nude women. If that's the moral starting point, how can people be suddenly be surprised and outraged when someone takes things to the dark side?
posted at: 13:10 | category: /Arts and Entertainment | link to this entry
