Appropriate At What Age?

It seems that our double standard has hit an all time low. David Letterman said the following this past week.

"These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. I mean, look at my record. It has never happened. I don't think it's funny. I would never think it was funny. I wouldn't put it in a joke."

What was said was inappropriate about a 14, 18, or 80 year old. Having an audience laugh shows an acceptance of such degrading talk.

Women are degraded in porn, they are degraded in advertising, and they are degraded on mainstream television. It is marketable to degrade women, to make them objects of pleasure, and the target of jokes. It is protected by our freedom of speech.

The sad reality is that all of this degradation is acceptable to our general public. If we as a society would turn off David Letterman, he would be jobless. If we refused to watch television that degraded women, we would get fewer programs that would do so. If we refused to buy products that used sex to sell, we would see less sex to sell.

The reason we have the problem is because there is an audience that accepts and responds to it. As I have been told, it works, so it is done.

I think it is time to stop it. It is time for us all to turn off Letterman, to refuse to watch television and movies that degrade anyone one. You will not be legalistic for refusing to watch programs that degrade people. You would be wise.

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