nosyrb - No, we're trying to individually send a message to movie producers to let them know that we don't want movies with this kind of content in them. If everyone did this, this type of content would decrease and our children would have less access to it.
littleloulou-2 - Thanks. I don't think anyone needs to go to any extremes - people just need to keep some body parts off the movie screens, billboards, magazine covers, posters, etc. - out from in front of our children.
missteenvogue - Silly? I have worked with legislators, prosecutors, porn-addicts, convicted child molesters, children who have been molested, and scientists studying the effects of pornography on the human brain. In the vast majority of cases that I'm aware of, the perpetrators started off being conditioned by repeated exposure to sexualized media (much like what was found in this movie and what you can regularly find on TV and in malls, etc.), which prepared and conditioned their minds to more readily accept the pornography that they would surely run into and end up pursuing beginning around age 12. The very few who don't fit into that profile were either introduced to indecent material earlier or were themselves molested by others who fit the above profile.
I have children who are girls and it's my responsibility to protect them in any way I can. One of those ways is to try to stop this creeping sexualization of the media that we see before us each day. Calling it silly (or normalizing or minimizing it by comparing it to other forms of indecency in our society) is just one of the many ways for some of us to rationalize "sitting back" while an increasing number of our youth get molested and addicted. I'm at the front lines in this battle and things are changing more quickly each year - the number of people affected would astound you. Everyone please wake up.
Based on the current research about what teens are doing with their photo and video cell phones, as just one example, you can give our society a few more years and you'll start seeing the fruits of our "sitting back" - but by then it will be too late to do something about it.
Those who are LDS have been counseled to get their own houses in order and then go out and be active in standing up against the evils that exist in our society. That's what I'm doing, and I'm sometimes surprised at people's reaction and apathy to what the prophet has told us to do. After years of seeing such apathy, you can begin to see why I was so shocked and disgusted to see this sexualized media creeping into Mormon genre movies - compounded by the apathetic and sarcastic reaction of the (Mormon) director of this movie.
All of this apathy, sarcasm, and minimizing is just spitting in the faces of the people I work with in the addiction recovery program and the victims of the crimes I mentioned above.
Just so this post isn't entirely negative and emotion laden, on a positive note, I am personally seeing many people start to escape the addictions that sexualized media has begun in their lives - it's a slow and painful process though that generally leaves victims, broken families, and children in its wake.
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17 years ago
DianeBelmont - Let me know when you see a 12-year-old boy breastfeeding in a sexualized way in public, and we'll get some people arrested. I think you have missed the point - maybe you were just trying to be funny.
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