Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...room, little Johnnie suddenly takes to visiting little Suzie's room. And not just little Johnnie, but little Johnnie's dad. What about the fact that the U.S. women's soccer team is not only being perceived as, and sold as, but is also presenting itself as...a sexual unit...
...objectifying, and in a way that never seems to pertain to guy jocks. Sure, Joe Namath did that take-it-all-off Noxzema ad years ago; Jim Palmer posed in his Jockey shorts, and there's always been a bold sexual element to NBA basketball. But by and large, male sports celebrity is calibrated by success. You win, you make more headlines, you make more dough...
...addition, a "content label" may appear as an extra letter tacked onto the icon: V (for violence), S (sexual situations), L (crude language) and D (suggestive dialogue). FV stands not for family viewing, as I assumed, but for "fantasy violence." Used with these ratings, the V chip could be helpful to parents who aren't always home when their kids watch TV and don't want them viewing South Park or the Playboy channel. However, not all networks and cable outlets use the ratings. (NBC, for instance, has declined to use the content label.) And programs are rated by their...
...tech way to do the same thing. Granted, it doesn't have the TV makers or politicians behind it. But I'm thinking that we parents might screen our children's TV viewing by occasionally sitting with them, watching what they watch and making judgments about violence, sexual content, bad language and even gross behavior we'd prefer not to see imitated. When we're not home, we can instruct the sitter to let the kids watch only programs we've approved. If we have to have a V chip in our homes, it might as well...
Watching the tape of me simultaneously trying to impress MTV producers and score with a shorn woman was the second most embarrassing moment of my life. The first, according to my application, was getting drunk in high school and badmouthing the sexual talents of my already graduated girlfriend, a claim that was posted on the school message board the next day. Her most embarrassing moment, of course, is happening right...