Prudes.
© Enoch Allen
Y. Y-7. Y-7 FV. TV-PG. TV-14. TV-MA. All meaningless symbols.
We look at them, and wish that they’d get the hell off our screen, as quickly as possible.
Oh, whoops! I swore! Christians aren’t supposed to swear. I'll pray.
Anyway, I cursed partly because I was frustrated with the staid, starchy BS & P (Broadcast Standards & Practices). They insist on bland-ifying all of our shows, such as what my associate Micah Wright termed. That’s why Cartoon Network has two different blocks of animation for two different audiences: Toonami, and Adult Swim.
The V-chip is a joke. Most who own V-chipped television sets don’t bother to program them, so that they may keep their children from being corrupted.
If they’ve been to public school, then they already have been corrupted.
Imagine all the playground conversations about where babies come from. Some suggest that babies get hand-delivered to mothers via lighting-fast spaceships piloted by aliens from the far corners of the galaxy. And then, some get it right. Babies are conceived by consummation.
But the ones who get it right, must watch the right programs. Well, not really. Think: what animated programs on television (yes, include MTV) talks about how babies are born? They talk about sex, sure, but what about BABIES, the consequence of sex?
Most leave that out.
And, so do animated programs on Cartoon Network--both which are aired during Toonami, and aired during Adult Swim. On Adult Swim Action, they DEFINITELY don’t talk about how babies are born. A conversation like that would seriously dull the program. The reason WHY the program aires on Adult Swim Action is because, the program is supposed to be ACTION-ORIENTED.
So, I have effectively explained away the reason why sexual content is less likely to exist on animated shows aimed at an adult audience. All the same, the BS & P is ever mindful of “sexual implication”. I don’t get it.
What about violence? Okay, off screen the hero impales the enemy with a stick. All that we hear are the squishing sounds of the stick being forcefully inserted into the poor chap’s midsection. NIXED! Well, why? “Mulan” got away with implied nudity, genocide, and mild language. “Teletubbies” once again implied the existence of a homosexual--Tinky Winky carried a purse. Okay, so that stirred some controversy, but the firestorm was over before you could say there was one.
It is usually the animated action-adventure shows on television, such as “Justice League”, that get targeted by these self-proclaimed Morality Squads. Because they are viewed traditionally as the most offense-prone programming on television. Look, BS & P--LOOSEN UP. The Toonami audience watches Adult Swim anyway.
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