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Originally Posted by MuadDib
I'm sorry, but there is a slight difference here. Some humor can be destructive even if its not intended to be. There's a difference between promoting violent humor or having racist humor in a cartoon and having an animated sponge (who has a girlfriend) hold the hand of his best friend. Not to say I don't love me some Looney Tunes and Stooges, but its humor does cross the line into violence a tad more than SBSP crosses the line into homosexuality. And even if they were equally obvious then at most one promotes a kind a togetherness we aren't comfortable while another promotes a kind of violence we aren't comfortable with... which would you say is worse?
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Actually the Stooges promote a great life lesson: that those you love can fuck up and make mistakes and piss you off, but in the end, that is what makes them the people you love.
As for Looney Tunes: there's the one where Elmer finally thinks he kills Bugs and he cries and is sorrowful for it.
But in answer to your question neither promotion bothers me because I look at the subjects as the subjects are supposed to be looked at ...... AS ENTERTAINMENT.
If I am stupid enough to want to gouge someone's eyes because I saw it on tv then I was probably prone to do something violent to begin with.
To defend either sides labellings and believe that one of these shows should be avoided because someone told you something is foolish.
You don't like the Stooges because you think they are violent.... fine.... but don't sit there and dictate to me how violent they are... Because I get the humor.
You don't like SBSP doing his thing because you thinkhe is promoting homosexuality.... fine..... but don't sit there and tell me my children (if I had any) can't watch it because YOU choose not to like it.... if my children like the show and I believe it to be ok for them then it is only my (as the parents) opinion that matters and you have no right to dictate that opinion to me.
To say one promotes "a good thing" the other promotes "bad" is only in the eye of the beholder and what THE INDIVIDUAL SEES, NOT AS DICTATED BY THE WHOLE.
It's the whole Political Correctness thing..... doesn't matter where the censorship comes from.... or even the purpose... censorship is about 1 thing and 1 thing only CONTROL.