Poll: "Two Men Kissing" more offensive than "Graphically Severed Human Head"

Viddy good me old droogie... viddy good.

-Dave

Nah, let's go kiss them. That'll really piss them off.

Sounds fun.

America is not spelled with a "K."

America is not spelled with a "K."

And this isn't America.

When murder is more acceptable to you than a display of human affection, you are done for.

Brilliantly said, biggerthebetter. How little value we put on human life that gruesome death can be equated with kissing.

After turtle-@!$%#ing, right?

Who's not titalated by an ornate brightly-colored boxshell? A stronger man than me, that's who.

Which head, jfrank?

;)

Conservatives would point out that necrophilia is the next logical progression of homosexuality. It only makes sense.

Yeah. That would likely happen.

Which head, jfrank?

I have to take the immortal word of Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) from Gilmore Girls here. "Dirty!"

Conservatives wouldn't like it if someone inferred that priesthood is the first step to pedophilia.

I don't believe that. Just saying.

Brilliant!

It's done by cartoons.

Wile E. Coyote finally got that Road Runner.

Meh. Everybody was already panicking over GTA and always has been. Rockstar loves it. It makes people check the game out.

Actually, any new copy of GTA that you buy has the Hot Coffee feature disabled (my boyfriend found this out much to his dismay). I just find it interesting that so many people have no problem with the kind of random violence in that game - but they freak when they find out that you can actually watch simulated sex (in which you see absolutely nothing) in a video game. Silly.

That's interesting, because all of the violence debate research I know of says pretty much the opposite on the effects of violent content. Where's a source for this study?

I have never understood the porno laws here, or elsewhere frankly. You can show all of a woman, but can't show the penis of a man. Is a penis that BAD?

It's like a woman's breasts in public - a man can be bare-chested, no problem, but if a woman was to walk around shirtless, it would be a huge scandal (I'm referring to American society in this statement). Even women who are just wishing to breastfeed their children are often forced to conceal themselves because breasts are seen strictly as sex objects.

Real people and parents aren't interested in what leftists and homosexuals find offensive but rather what is having the most direct impact on the next generation.

Stop and consider how much better the above paragraphs would sound with the removal of this frankly baffling false dichotomy.

I see what you're getting at and that wasn't what I was going for. Poor choice of words - it should say instead, "People and parents who appreciate the damage that sex can have for a society aren't interested..."

I haven't taken any sniper fire in Bosnia but I'll still chalk it up to a "misspeak" on my part.

So that should fix the rest of the post in your eyes, correct?

God damned kids that get all those STD from kissing...

Sex ruins the lives of young people in America far more than cartoonish violence ever has. If you disagree with that then you must not be one of those who believes that abortion is a necessary tool to keep people from having to live with their "mistakes", as Sen. Obama believes. With some highschool surveys showing that one in four teenagers have an STD, it seems pretty obvious what should be more troubling to people.

One of the many wonderful gifts granted to us by President George is that young people actually can appreciate the possibility of very real violence at the hands of an enemy insurgent in Iraq, should they contemplate joining the material. And many of them may have had relatives shot in Iraq.

Personally, I think losing a relative to violence is pretty shocking. But hey, that's just me.

I do think your rationalization of homophobia is interesting, I wasn't sure what your take on this one would be.

Oh boy, look what you did Remmer's. You started a culture war with the leftist-homosexual-terrorist lovers and good patriotic American's like Otto.

The homophobic undercurrents of your posting, Otto, are saturating my screen and it's quite disturbing. Having read many of your other articles here on Newsvine I have to either believe that what you type is a joke, because you've just become this caricature of a dying way of thinking.

I live in a condo complex and living next door to my wife and I is a lovely couple, Nate and Dave. The nicest people that we've met since moving here. They were the first couple to ring our doorbell and greet us to the neighborhood and brought us these cool little tomato plants. (Oddly enough I love growing tomatoes, but that's for another article.) Nate has even helped my wife bring in our groceries one day when I wasn't home.

Across the street from us is a heterosexual couple, I don't know their names as they rarely greet anyone. It has become almost a weekly ritual to hear him screaming at her and them fighting. Mind you, I hear this from across the street, so you can see it's pretty heated. On two separate occasions in our month living here the police have had to come at night. One of the other neighbors has said that he has already been taken into the station once for striking her.

Nate and Dave hold hands and peck each other on the cheek while they walk their dog. But because you think what they do in the privacy of their own bedroom is icky I'm not allowed to teach my child that their relationship is normal? Am I supposed to tell my child that them loving each other is bad, and they should be feared and ridiculed more than the man who hits his girlfriend/wife?

And then there is everything else that is wrong with what you say, but this has already gotten off-topic enough. Eventually your generation will be old and feeble, immobilized in nursing homes, and my generation will be running this country. Then maybe we can get past these trite "culture war" arguments and get on with each person living their lives as good people. So, even if this poll is serious, then no we should not appreciate it. If it is serious we should take action to help those stats flip around.

Well, in future generations when more kids ARE beheading people or committing violence, we'll have people like you to thank for it, the Otto show....a case of the clap can be cured with penicillin; a case of beheading is generally fatal....

... and a case of the teenage pregnancies (which you were eluding too with your abortion talk) can be cured with proper education. Not forcing abstinence onto teenagers.

Teenagers have sex. They're genetically programmed to do. That's what they do now, and what they always done since the dawn of civilization. So, teach them that there will be consequences for doing it recklessly.

I see what you're getting at and that wasn't what I was going for. Poor choice of words - it should say instead, "People and parents who appreciate the damage that sex can have for a society aren't interested..."

Let's see if I've got this correct: you assert that a flippant attitude toward sex and tolerance for homosexuality endangers the youth, right? If that's true, then why is it that the South (hardly a bastion of sexual tolerance) is awash with pre-teen pregnancies and STDs? Why is it that we see many more sex offenders in Utah, Texas, and Virginia than we do in New York, California, or Massachusetts? When you actually look at which parts of the country have a higher level of tolerance for sexual differences and sex in general, you do not see a higher rate of sexual irresponsibility or misconduct. If anything, the sex-fearing "wholesome" Americans appear more likely to be spreading disease and getting 12-year-olds pregnant.

Teenagers have sex. They're genetically programmed to do. That's what they do now, and what they always done since the dawn of civilization. So, teach them that there will be consequences for doing it recklessly.

Amen to that, Russ R, instead of continually focusing on it to the detriment of other things in their lives, or tying to stop the urge, to make sex extraordinary or to pretend that it is the most important thing on earth. It might be the most enjoyable, but it is certainly not more important than food or water because without those we simply die!

It's easier to raise a generation to not murder than it is in this day and age to raise them not to destroy their own lives and happiness through a twisted concept of what sex should mean to them.

You're saying kids would rather have sex than kill someone.... and that's bad?

You're saying kids would rather have sex than kill someone.... and that's bad?

No, no no. We just want them to have "wholesome" sex, not pervert sex.

-Dave