"parental advisory is the same as the "NC-17" rating,
in that they both carry a stigma we should not have to
deal with, one that brands items or movies as trash
just because they are adorned with one of those
logos."
I have to disagree with this line of thought. An
artist is not obligated to place the sticker on their
albums, whereas the MPAA does set the rating on a
movie and studios can only try to bargain their way to
a better rating through creative editing and drafting.
There may have been more of a stigma attached to the
sticker back when 2 Live Crew was being pulled from
every record store in Florida, but believe me when I
say that the sticker rarely affects the purchases of
parents or teens today. Working at a record store
part-time, I've had the opportunity (and the
obligation, through company policy) to inform quite a
few na�ve parents that the CD they are about to pick
up for their precocious 8-year-old features explicit
content that is just not suitable for children. It's
unbelievable what parents will buy for their children
and the reasoning behind their decisions.
If working retail doesn't want to make you take up
social work sometimes...
And when it comes to politics, blowjobs vs. coke, what
has the world come to when the leader of the free
world can only have one and not the other? Seriously,
shouldn't we be more concerned with what a politician
is doing while in office instead of what he did when
he was in college? I'm not trying to claim that it's
acceptable for career politicians to huff ski in their
free time, I'm just saying that I'm more worried about
the president having sex with his interns when he's on
the taxpayers' dime. But we've gone over this before.
have to realize I own the future,
*phiL*
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