Friday, August 23, 2002

What Decade is This, Again?

When I saw the headline for this story about Buffy being a bad show for "families," I thought I may sigh and agree with it, considering last season's sleazy decent into soft core vampire porn. But when I read that the group rating the shows would probably be happiest if they went back to married couples having separate beds, I had to chuckle. So, it's inappropriate to show a 30-something single woman having a baby at 8 pm? They didn't show her conceive it! Does this group think children won't know that single women are having babies if they don't see it on Friends? Please! If anything, they should be happy that they showed Rachel make a difficult decision rather than making it seem easy to just get knocked up and have the baby, the way Reba, a show they laud (because the teenage parents get married? Now, that's sick.) does. And even though they criticize Buffy for dealing with an "element of the occult," Sabrina, The Teenage Witch is on their favorites list. Um, what's more occult than a witch? No, no, hands down, it was a rhetorical question. And the funniest thing, the show Gilmore Girls which has, inexplicably, been held up as fine family viewing (yeah, the single mom whose rabbit died when she was 16 who shows no respect for her parents and lets her young daughter date bad boys...) was ignored because the group "was concerned about some of the mother's relationships." Oy, you mean with the father of her child? I guess I just don't think the right way. Where can I get reprogrammed?

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