Mom Mad as **ll and She's Not Going to Take it Anymore!

Ozarkgal

Ozarkgal

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This mother is on a mission to fight inappropriate sexuality on the screen after the advertisement she saw while watching GMA at 8:00 in the morning with her young son. She made some well thought out points in her blog about it.

I agree with this woman. I am not a prude by any means, but there is a time and place for everything, and airing an advertisement with a steamy sex scene first thing in the morning is not it.

The show being advertised is apparently an ABC TV program called "Betrayal". She took a picture of the offending nude scene, but was not allowed to post it on Facebook with her comments because of the nudity content. Her post was removed by Facebook.

I wonder why movies have ratings to help prevent kids from seeing inappropriate movies, but they can put it right out there in your face on TV for all the world to see?

Story:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/13/frustrated-mom-posts-scathing-blog-post-excoriating-hollywoods-immorality-after-her-young-son-sees-shocking-sex-scene/

Blog: http://rebecaseitz.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/morning-sex/
 

re:and airing an advertisement with a steamy sex scene first thing in the morning is not it.

Better get use to it as sex scenes advertising is a big money maker,its not going away anytime soon.
 
I'm not a prude either, but I have realized over the years that sex sells, and unless that changes, people will take advantage. I don't have any interest in watching TV shows like that at all, although I'm a woman, I've never had an interest either in daytime soap operas...although I remember my mother watching shows like the Guiding Light and Secret Storm, way back in the day.

I think this woman is really overreacting. BTW, I never saw the first link, the page took too long to load for me...so just going by what I saw on her blog site. There's no nudity at all shown. The kids see a picture of a man kissing a woman, and unless the mother becomes ape$h*t over it, the kids would just see past it and not think twice.

Yes, it would be ideal if these commercials were shown in the evening or night hours, but they must figure that housewives are watching in the morning, and they are the most likely ones to tune in.

Although I'm in no way in favor of disgusting nudity on the television, I am also cautious about too much censorship. Some people like this mother, IMO, are just too sensitive, and making a mountain out of a molehill.
 

LOL..well SB you and I can finally debate on something:D. How much is too much and how far will it evolve if it is allowed to continue. Remember the days on TV when they couldn't show a bedroom scene unless there were twin beds in the room? While, this maybe too far on the opposite side of the spectrum, it shows how much moral values have changed. When is enough, enough?

Kids these days IMO are subjected to far too much raunchy content in television, music and entertainment content. They are growing up with a loss of innocence at a very young age.

I thought about this today as I was reading Jillaroo's post on kids writing about the ocean. While the post was funny, and it made me laugh, I couldn't help but think a couple of the kids had written about things far too sexually advanced for their tender age.

I didn't see the whole commercial, only a still picture, so I don't know what moves were involved with the naked couple, either.

I know times have changed, but not all change is for the best.
 
One just needs to watch the latest music videos to see how bad it has got, all the nudity and sexual innuendoes and young kids are watching it, then it's transferred to the fashions the young kids are wearing, all the producers of these videos need to be pulled in line and not allow all this sex in videos, mind you i am not a prude but some of these videos are bordering on pornographic.
 
There's fairly tight restrictions on TV content at certain times here, but they are slipping, and now then one sneaks through.
For some reason a raunchy promo which would have passed totally unnoticed by me at 9pm catches my attention if it's in the earlier 'wrong' time slot. Must be mind controlled or something.
I think that woman and the other easily outraged trying to keep their kids ignorant of what the grown ups are doing are in for a long hard haul. The kids will probably know more than her soon enough anyway.

Personally I've been highly amused for years about the censorship rules in the US. Those little modesty blurs over rude bits in autopsies cracks me up sometimes. The BBC weren't that shy with theirs.
I guess there's a hard line between free to air and cable over there?
But the double standards appear very blatant here as a lot of your cable only stuff goes on free to air here so we can't always figure out why one show is so tweely modest when the next is Deadwood or something.
(So far Game of Thrones is only on cable though, dammit, had to buy the series.)
 
Ozarkgal said:
LOL..well SB you and I can finally debate on something:D. How much is too much and how far will it evolve if it is allowed to continue. Remember the days on TV when they couldn't show a bedroom scene unless there were twin beds in the room? While, this maybe too far on the opposite side of the spectrum, it shows how much moral values have changed. When is enough, enough?

Kids these days IMO are subjected to far too much raunchy content in television, music and entertainment content. They are growing up with a loss of innocence at a very young age.

I thought about this today as I was reading Jillaroo's post on kids writing about the ocean. While the post was funny, and it made me laugh, I couldn't help but think a couple of the kids had written about things far too sexually advanced for their tender age.

I didn't see the whole commercial, only a still picture, so I don't know what moves were involved with the naked couple, either.

I know times have changed, but not all change is for the best.
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Not too much of a debate from me OG...and yes, I grew up in the day of Rob and Laura Petri in their twin beds...a simpler time then, and much better in my opinion. Kids nowadays are much too sexual, dressed that way by their parents, and hearing sexual references and foul curse words that are degrading to both women and men in their own homes. Not the way we were brought up, but seem to be all too common in present day.

I agree that times have changed in many areas, and NOT for the best. :(
 
Did anyone take notice that the complaining Xian Mom is a publicist? She KNOWS how the game is played.

Maybe she's part of the advertising for Betrayal ?

If it's for real, then how about just turning the television off? If it's "family time" how about some interaction with the family instead of with the tube?

If I live next door to a swamp, why would I jump into it every morning just to complain about it in the afternoon?
 
You always have to consider the source with these kinds of stories. The magical thing about them is that they might be true, and then again they might NOT be.

... which reminds me of my current favorite commercial -

 
That commercial did bring a chuckle. :p That woman in the original post describing that as a shocking sex scene, must have lived a pretty sheltered life. :playful:
 
I love that commercial!!!

There are times when I've thought, "what the h*ll" when I've seen some sex scenes on tv, but then I was on a channel such as IFC, where things like that are not so rare.
I'd be a bit surprised at seeing something like the woman mentioned at that hour of the day, but we can always switch channels, and if we don't make a big deal of it, most likely the kids won't either.
I'm sure our grandparents would say we're 'desensitized', and maybe we are, but kids are seeing and hearing so much more of this stuff now, that we can just hope whatever we teach at home will stay with them, and they will realize that all they see isn't right. We can hope, anyway.
 

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