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Censoring debate : Comments

By Gemma Connell, published 7/7/2006

It's the cause, not the consequence, of the recent alleged sexual harassment on 'Big Brother' that matters.

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Sylvia

You are 100% correct there was no sexual assault and no sexual harassment. I too have seen the footage. Who's bed was Camilla in? What was her hand playing with under the sheets, who shouted out "bite it off".

Sexual assault and harassment are abhorent to me but by using BB to push agendas, unfortunately these serious issues are debased.

Crap TV is just that, lets get Bert Newton on BB that would be obscene.
Posted by Steve Madden, Friday, 7 July 2006 4:26:02 PM
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Children, my dear Gemma Collins, are not born with moral values. They are inculcated into childrens heads by parents, teachers, our culture, and the role models provided by society.

Our children are being exposed to perverted concepts of adult sexuality when some of them are still struggling to comprehend why they should not pick their noses. Our TV media is giving our children conflicting concepts of right or wrong behaviour, as well as sexually exhibitionist young role models who's behaviour is so sordid that even a professional pole dancer would shun their company.

The idea that literature and filmatic creativity should not suffer from the heavy hand of censorshiop is a noble one. But his worthy idea is being exploited by greedy capitalists who are marketting youth directed programs that not only promote anti social and mysoginist concepts, they do not make the slightest pretense towards artistic merit. It is merely an excuse for young people to be exposed to cheap, tacky programs where the concept that offensive and sexualy exhibitionist behaviour is fun, is promoted by highly paid media executives who only wish to exploit them.

Well heeled artists, producers and directors are producing youth directed shows like Big Brother which are providing new and totally repulsive cultural values to children, and presenting them to children as the normal behaviour of young adults. With all the imperiousness of absolute monarchs, they emphatically proclaim, that the public to whom Australian TV culture rightfully belongs, have no right to define it's composition.

In making this claim, they are usurping the authority of parents and governments to define the boundaries of acceptable behaviour to our youngest generation.
Posted by redneck, Friday, 7 July 2006 6:18:35 PM
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Exactly... she invited herself into his bed and basically pre-empted the whole thing. Then she proceeds to give the fella a handjob without his express verbal consent. That makes her 'as bad' as them if you follow the original specious assertion of sexual assualt.

Clearly their was no assault. She said so. l suppose the victim of an assualt doesnt know their own experience, nor thinking and society's talking heads have to intervene to tell the paw wittle fing what she really experienced.

The point of this whole episode is that the thing has been misrepresented and blown out of proportion. That is the real lesson here, namely the public's kangaroo court, lynch mob mentaility. Most havent even seen the footage. Its like rendering and opinion about an opinion of a book review without even having read the book.

This tendency speaks to a much deeper social malaise than sexual assault tand the periodic 'sky is falling' hysteria that froths and bubbles to the surface occassionally. Its scarey to think these same people get a vote and exercise it. Some folks are just lazy dolts who will not let the facts get in the way of personal, bias laden opinion.

Personally, if a couple of attractive, freshly showered 20 something females wanted to slap me with their mammaries and genitals l would be thoroughly delighted.

Prudes... unite and slap me down for such incorrect personal morality.

The wolf is coming and the sky is falling in. OOOOOh, its so scarey to be alive in this modern world. Waaaaah. Save me johnny , save me kim, protect me prue... from thy pitiful, unknowing self.
Posted by trade215, Friday, 7 July 2006 6:57:45 PM
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My dear Tim Brunero,
You are correct and I am correct.
We both are correct.
When you attribute someone to saying something you also say it actually did not happen but only that someone said it happened.
You shift it from fact to subjectiveness.
It is up to interpretation of what soemthone thought happened.
When you go to interpretation to avoid legal charges you also put up the premise that it also did not happen as fact.
It has to be that way Tim Brunero or the law would not be satisfied.
Sorry!
Posted by GlenWriter, Friday, 7 July 2006 7:22:00 PM
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People, BB ratings were down because it is a boring show! So they set this up and let the other stations make a big fuss and now the rating are up. Same thing happened last year.
Here you are debating consent but what does a stupid program like this do to the idiot voyeurs who watch it?
Posted by Marsketa, Friday, 7 July 2006 9:00:42 PM
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(1) Dignity. Integrity. Honour. Character. Graciousness. Beauty. Freedom. Morality.
Or...
(2) Baseness. Small-mindedness. Pettiness. Shamefulness. Disgracefulness. Ignobility. Dullness. Destructiveness. Immorality.

Freedom of choice!
One path is bondage. The other is freedom.

A culture fed so much immorality, starts to think it is the norm. Until confronted by true beauty.
A few public mentors would not go astray. Time to stop excusing Channel Ten.

There is a huge difference between moral character, and moralism. The latter is picky.
For some of the posters on OLO, the difference is too subtle to apprehend. Pity
Posted by tennyson's_one_far-off_divine_event, Friday, 7 July 2006 11:53:10 PM
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