Commericals and Sex

I used to joke with people about my profession. "What kind of work do you do?" people would ask and my reply would reply "Satan's" because that is how I felt. When I was young and going into the art field I looked at advertising as an art. A way to creatively put out information for people to use. A way to create something beautiful and informational. To be fair I wanted to work for Hallmark or National Geographic and really not work in advertising at all. Yup, advertising - Satan's work. I also did marketing and feel that was less horrible and infinitely more intelligent. But don't tell all the over blown ad exec's that - their precious ego might blow up in your face.

So now, today, out of that burning inferno I watch the standards or decency fall further and further in today's ad world. Not only is the creative ability failing, but the ability to advertise without the use of gross humor and sexual reference. And then, to top it off, the shows which advertise these things during their commercial breaks! One Sunday morning my children and I were watching a show on one of the more educational channels about Humpback whales, a favorite animal of mine. Every commercial break showed a mostly naked man rolling around and making out with and caressing a woman in the waves on the beach. It made me so angry - but that was only the beginning. Now a couple years later I have to endure my 9 year old seeing women talking off their clothes in a movie commercial during a child geared Christmas show or even worse - watching "The Music Man" with Matthew Broderick (I was so excited to see this was on and let her see a musical!) only to have the commercial come on to TWO NAKED MEN MAKING OUT!~ I nearly kicked the stinking TV. And then there is NOTHING to do about this. I have looked at the organizations who have PATHETIC resources and attempts at change. I am so sick even of the local news that can't go through a broadcast without running some special interest feature on sex something-or-other. Or watching a NASCAR race and having my children ask "what is an erection?" Thanks all you jerks in Washington for doing NOTHING to watch out for our children. But you know what I think - I think it is ON PURPOSE. No one can be so stupid as to let this happen without awareness. Freedom of speech has nothing to do with the lack of decency in America today.


Welcome to the American Idiocracy. Take away our voice on how to educate and keep our children healthy and don't give our children a voice to protect them against moral injustice. Why not just put porn on primetime TV? Oh wait... I am pretty sure we have it already. (Glee, ER, Grey's... oh yeah) - Sorry Patrick.