Elmo looks very happy

[Fletch]

Lucky for me the TV doesn't baby-sit my kids.

It would if you paid it more.

 

[hornadylnl]

Lucky for me the TV doesn't baby-sit my kids.

I'm right there with you but I just don't see the need of sexualizing kiddie shows. My daughter watches ICarly. For the most part it is a pretty good show. One episode had the girls doing their webshow in swim suits. To me, there is just something creepy about 13-15 yo girls wearing swimsuits on a tv show. It wouldn't mean much to the target audience but you can't tell me pedos don't watch this stuff.

 

[jedi]

I'm right there with you but I just don't see the need of sexualizing kiddie shows.

Yup times sure have changed.

Sesame Street... For Adults Only? - CBS Evening News - CBS News

 

[ATOMonkey]

I'm right there with you but I just don't see the need of sexualizing kiddie shows. My daughter watches ICarly. For the most part it is a pretty good show. One episode had the girls doing their webshow in swim suits. To me, there is just something creepy about 13-15 yo girls wearing swimsuits on a tv show. It wouldn't mean much to the target audience but you can't tell me pedos don't watch this stuff.

Agreed, which is why my kids will never ever watch Disney. I think it turns them into brats too. Just what I've observed watching my neice and nephew though.

Anyway, there is also a difference between nudity (partial, full, or otherwise) and sexualized nudity.

Venus di Milo - nude

Jenna Jameson - Sexualized nudity.

A boob in and of itself is not necessarily a sexualized thing. Especially if it's just cleavage, and it's not bouncing or being used in a way to stimulate a man sexually.

 

[ATOMonkey]

At any rate, if I think a kiddie show is being sexualized, I change the channel or pop in a movie, or take my kids outside.

Nothing says I HAVE to watch a sexualized kiddie show.

 

[jedi]

At any rate, if I think a kiddie show is being sexualized, I change the channel or pop in a movie, or take my kids outside.

Nothing says I HAVE to watch a sexualized kiddie show.

WHAT!!! WHAT!!! You mean you take personal responsibility for what your kids watch and actually will turn off the TV and go OMG outside to play! WHAT!!! Mr. ATOMonkey when the black van pulls up to your house in a few sec please do not fight it. We just need to take you for some re-education that is all.

Don't you know that the TV is there for you and your family to watch 24/7.

 

[Que]

Relatively speaking, I don't think today's shows are any more sexual than they were when I was growing up. I remember the cartoons with Wonder Woman, Cat Woman, etc., and they all had at least 36C's and were proud of it. Every generation looks at the next as if they are supposed to be pristine, but that will not happen. The solution is to change the channel or turn it off.

 

[DarkRose]

"Sesame Street" Yanks Controversial Katy Perry Duet with Elmo - A-Line: the celebrity style blog - omg! on Yahoo

Not what it used to be when I was growing up watching it haha.

How about this little gem? My favorite Muppet episode of ALL time!

YouTube - Alice Cooper - Welcome to my nightmare (On Muppet Show)

There's also one with Peter Sellers doing Cigarettes & Whisky...

 

[04DarkShadowGT]

Our society is becoming full of horrible parents who would rather take anything that could be even vaguely offensive or not PC off the air.

I mean really she isn't dressed slutty, she is hot but she would be hot in jeans and a t-shirt. Also about kids in bathing suits, its no different than it used to be, people just complain about stuff today. It SHOULD be no big deal, everyone has been in a bathing suit at one time or another. Its really not that big of a deal.

 

[hornadylnl]

Our society is becoming full of horrible parents who would rather take anything that could be even vaguely offensive or not PC off the air.

I mean really she isn't dressed slutty, she is hot but she would be hot in jeans and a t-shirt. Also about kids in bathing suits, its no different than it used to be, people just complain about stuff today. It SHOULD be no big deal, everyone has been in a bathing suit at one time or another. Its really not that big of a deal.

Don't take this the wrong way. I'm not advocating banning this stuff in any way shape or form. I just don't think it's cool to put young teen girls on tv to give Dickie something to toss off to.

 

[ISHOOTHST'S]

 

[T-rav]

I did not see anything wrong with this video, but I don't have kids. I asked some co-workers that do though and they watched the video and they were completely ok with it. I asked them because they are very picky about what they let their kids watch. I would almost bet the parents that complained about this video are the same ones that think its cute for their 14 year old daughter to have her belly button pierced!

 

[ISHOOTHST'S]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGZlbLLmCyEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=CGZlbLLmCyE&feature=related

 

[jedi]

Informal experiement I did last night.

Sat my 5 year old to watch the Kate Perry/Elmo video
She watched it and said Elmo sings good.
I asked her about the girl. She said the girl was funny wearing the hat but did not sign good. She liked elmo better.

Sat my 3 year old to wacth the video. He just moving to the beat of the song and pointed at elmo several times saying "emo, emo, emo".

So I sit them both down again and load up the real HOT & Cold Video.
My son begins to move to the beat but after a few second turns to me and says "no emo? no emo? emo!! emo!!" and my daughter says "that's the girl again but where is elmo? Put elmo back on the video."

So what can we learn from this? Well my 3 and 5 year old don't care about Kate or what she was wearing. They were focused on Elmo and what he was doing and saying. Suspect you could put Kate in her underwear and bra and my kids would still not care.

Hum.. me thinks those parents that are complaining are forgetting to look thru the eyes of a child when they see this and stop thinking dirty/filty thoughts instead.

The letter of the day is I for

 

[llamant]

Whats the big deal? Nothing sexual, not even innuendo. Anyone having a problem with this, is the problem.

 

[jedi]

BTW elmo was on a morning talk TV show yesterday along with Grover and the SS exectutive producer. It's on Yahoo Videos. In any case Elmo said that he and Ms. Perry will be having another play date in the near future.

Also this is at least the 2nd time that one of elmo's "play dates" gets toss from airing. The Chris Brown and Elmo song did not make the airwaves a few years back as well. In that one it was because of Brown's scandal (ie. beating up his gfirend) that stopped the airing of it. Again nothing but PC BS.

 

[WILSON]

 

[DarkRose]

Informal experiement I did last night.

Sat my 5 year old to watch the Kate Perry/Elmo video
She watched it and said Elmo sings good.
I asked her about the girl. She said the girl was funny wearing the hat but did not sign good. She liked elmo better.

Sat my 3 year old to wacth the video. He just moving to the beat of the song and pointed at elmo several times saying "emo, emo, emo".

So I sit them both down again and load up the real HOT & Cold Video.
My son begins to move to the beat but after a few second turns to me and says "no emo? no emo? emo!! emo!!" and my daughter says "that's the girl again but where is elmo? Put elmo back on the video."

So what can we learn from this? Well my 3 and 5 year old don't care about Kate or what she was wearing. They were focused on Elmo and what he was doing and saying. Suspect you could put Kate in her underwear and bra and my kids would still not care.

Hum.. me thinks those parents that are complaining are forgetting to look thru the eyes of a child when they see this and stop thinking dirty/filty thoughts instead.

The letter of the day is I for

I watched the video on my Droid smartphone with my 3 year old son looking over my shoulder, all he cared about was Elmo.

 

[Lobo]

Don't take this the wrong way. I'm not advocating banning this stuff in any way shape or form. I just don't think it's cool to put young teen girls on tv to give Dickie something to toss off to.

Don't take this the wrong way, but this is like your second or third post worrying about some pedo tossing off and watching young girls on TV. You're kinda creeping me out, dude.

 

[04DarkShadowGT]

Don't take this the wrong way, but this is like your second or third post worrying about some pedo tossing off and watching young girls on TV. You're kinda creeping me out, dude.

I see his point to some extent but if you start modifying normal programming because a VERY small population thinks of it a different way you are just starting down a very slippery slope.

What next, cancel animal planet because billy bob thinks about goats?