Writing for an awesome-sounding newspaper called the Tulane Hullabaloo, Jeff Silberman has put together a fine op-ed piece on the silliness of a media culture that bombards us with violent music, TV shows and video games but gets squeamish when somebody says the word “nipple.”
Here’s an excerpt:
On television, for every 10,000 murders, we see one orgasm. If you understand how ludicrous that is, stop here — you know everything I’m about to say. But if you don’t, if you find that statement objectionable or confusing, then read on.
[…] Around the world, millions of children are simultaneously taught that sex is dirty, and that it is glorious to die for your country. A video game, Grand Theft Auto, was pulled from shelves, not because of the thousands of murders the player invariably takes part in, but because he can get a blowjob.
[…] Atheists blame the Bible, feminists blame the double standard of promiscuity and postmodernists blame our arbitrary grand narrative of history. But they all miss something so much more basic: jealousy. It’s the source of our violence, hate, progress and innovation — and it’s disguised as moral disgust.
The Hullabaloo, incidentally, is a student-run newspaper at Tulane University in New Orleans.
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