The definition of “indecency”
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Main Entry: indecency
Pronunciation: (”)in-’dE-s&n(t)-sE
Function: noun
Date: 1589
1 : the quality or state of being indecent
2 : something (as a word or action) that is indecent
Main Entry: indecent
Pronunciation: -s&nt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French indcent,
from Latin indecent-, indecens, from in- + decent-, decens
decent
Date: circa 1587
: not decent; especially : grossly unseemly or offensive
to manners or morals
For me, it is offensive to my morals, when someone forces
his own morals on me, making religious morality into laws
in a government that stresses a separation of church and
state. For me, it is morally offensive to use physical violence
of any kind as anything but a last resort to solve problems.
For me, it is morally offensive to give handouts to those
who need help less, while those worse off have their impoverishment
held against them as an excuse to not lessen their burden.
Why are these things allowed by the government every day
— in front of children, no less, while the FCC comes down
on anyone showing a female breast?
As I’ve said before many times through many means of
communication, there are at football games shirtless
men with breasts larger and less attractive than Janet
Jackson’s, and cameras can stay on them for a full minute,
just because it’s funny (their bodies are painted
or it’s winter temperatures at an outdoor stadium),
no matter what time the game is on. However, she does it for
one second after 8 PM EST on a school night, and there’s
a huge and sudden crackdown on what they call indecency.
Why is there such a huge double standard? I mean, I don’t
call myself a stud, because I can, want to, and have been
able to sleep with three to five different people in a 48-hr.
period, sometimes at the same time. I’m a slut, just
like a woman would be called. There’s far too negative
a connotation on that word. It is what it is, not good or bad.
It’s just a factual statement and should be looked
at that way.
Furthermore, the hetero/bisexual male and homo/bisexual
woman have an attraction to the female breasts for a very
logical and understandable reason, although they might
not realize it at the time. The truth is that women’s
breasts remind us on an instinctual level of a time when
we were always warm and safe and felt loved: during breastfeeding.
The breasts of a woman are not only soft and round (usually),
but they are home to the subconscious of a large number of
people in the world. Even gay men and straight women are
able to look at another woman and find her attractive partially
because of her breasts, specifically, and overall curviness.
Of course, the face factors more into it for these people,
as it should be for us all (IMO), but they’d be lying,
if they said that this was the ONLY factor.
I’m tired most of all of the people who use Judea-Christian
beliefs to justify defining nudity as indecent. In Genesis,
God became angry when Adam and Eve ate the apple from the
Tree of Knowledge, because (drum roll, please) HE WANTED
US NAKED! God made us in His image, according to the Old Testament,
and he wanted us to be okay with that, to be relaxed and free
and … well, yes, dumb, but the point is that WE clothed
ourselves, when we thought we knew better, and God became
angry and kicked us out of Eden. If Jews and Christians should
look at the subject of nudity in ANY fashion, it’s that
the human body is a creation of God and should be respected
and admired, even praised and flaunted at times. Get off
this religious tip, right-wingers, because it just doesn’t
work.
War is indecent; famine is indecent; poverty is indecent;
bigotry is indecent. Why is the news allowed to openly discuss
these topics AND show evidence of them on national television,
yet the human body, one of God’s most perfectly imperfect
and most beautiful creations, must be hidden away? I say
that we all get naked and march on Washington in protest
… maybe call it the Million Moon March? No, that’s
silly, but you get the idea. When women aren’t allowed
to feed a hungry child, because others will see their breasts,
things have gone too far. ER censored for its realism, Howard
Stern (no matter how much I don’t like him) cut from
ClearChannel, and other aspects of the big FCC crackdown
… it’s just a crying shame. What’s next? What
other freedoms will they take away, due to their allegedly
indecent nature, while the ills of the world are allowed
to continue and to be the subject of media attention? I shudder
to think of what the answer to these questions could be,
and so should everyone else.