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That Is So Not PC - Page 2

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Each week, you can see Jimmy and Adam challenge the PC attitude through variety-type acts and sketch comedy. They provide a release for all of us who have had it with being PC. Every Wednesday at 10:30 pm/9:30 c after South Park, we are offered an escape from the PC attitude. For example, in a "wedding" episode, Jimmy and Adam mocked women and the sanctity of marriage. They proposed the idea of a "flesh-colored wedding ring" so that you can please your wife by wearing it, but you can still pick up chicks. They addressed the problem of women not liking the idea of bachelor parties and not knowing what happens at them. They agreed that those parties could be detrimental to the relationship, but argued that we could not get rid of them completely. So, they offered a compromise: they would do without the party, but suggested that they be allowed to have a stripper jump out of the wedding cake.

It is through acts like these that we are allowed to sit back, laugh at, and degrade women as our ancstors once did. Now, you may say, "Won't that be harmful to women? Won't it destroy all the equality which women have worked all these years to build, revert our society to colonial values, and throw women's rights into a spiraling vortex to oblivion? Well, we all feel this way, and there is a simple answer which will put you all at ease: This show is on Comedy Central; no one watches that network anyway (well, except for me and several million other MEN...so, I guess it could be detriMENtal after all). I feel that people should respect one another; however, we should NOT have to watch everything we say every second of every day. People should lighten up and be accepting of the anti-PC lifestyle. A show like The Man Show offers this sort of mentality for us to follow. Network executives have seen the prevailing PC attitude is getting out of hand and have offered a reprieve. The Man Show is slowly desensitizing America and, at the same time, angering radical feminists.

I feel that this show offers grounds for debate where there shouldn't be. People who are uptight and too "PC" will argue that the show is sexist and has no place on television. When they see segments such as "Household Hints From Adult Film Stars" in which they have "adult film stars" give out "household hints" in the most seductive way possible while wearing nothing but their underwear, some people are angered. Whereas I feel that the show is simply for enjoyment and should be seen as such. It addresses the issue of political correctness and satirizes it. Addresses the issue, but does not, in any way, insinuate that men should act in that fashion. Some people are so into the so-called "PC attitude" that when a show such as this one comes out, they are all up in arms about it. They are not able to believe that this show could be merely for entertainment and nothing more.

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