cato said:
I once brought this up in an anthropology class and everyone laughed and thought I made a joke.
what I said was something to the effect of: why should it be ok for women to show their faces but not their breasts? someone had said something about it being wrong to make women cover their faces, but what is the difference? a persons face is naturally as much of a sexual organ as their breasts. so why does the western world have a double standard when it comes to covering breasts? I could understand with genitalia, or even if we also made men cover their breasts.
its like the old story from Herodotus, where one civilization is shocked at the thought of eating their dead father's corpse, and the other is shock that instead of eating it, the would burn it.
it is a case of cultural relativism, and yet we (western world) think things are so cut and dried.
just wondering your thoughts on this subject.
My 2 cents regarding the orginal post:
At first I tought this was a post on 'hidding a persons face on TV with a black mark on their eyes or a blue dot on thier face' vs 'nudity'
But I was disapointed
However, I do note understanding to your post.
Michel Jackson is accused of child molestation.... it is know all over the world... However when some random guy is accused of the same crime, their face is cencored for his own sake, on the TV.
Lets face some facts here... nudity is out there and we cannot hide it from th children.... Buy a V-Chip for your TV... your children will see porn in the internet... screw around with your internet settings... your children will learn about sex in school... take them out of sex ed class, your children will go to a friends house and see hardcore porn for the first time....
You cannot hide everything from everyone.......
You see a breast pop out at the super bowl.... big deal! They are there for a reason for crying out loud... why are people ashamed to see breasts. Did your whole world end becuase someone made one little mistake on TV where a whole nation should be reading books or doing something better with thier time than watch a stupid football game.
If anything, things seem more dirty when they ARE cencored!!!
Every watch the Jimmy Kimmle Live segment called "This week in unnecary cencore ship"?
A news casters can say "1,000,000 where killed"
but cencore the word 'kill'
"1,000,000 where @#$%"
Oi.