Katy Perry: Escorted Off Sesame Street

[Pariah87]

Pariah as a child watching this- "Yay, Elmo is singing with that woman who's always on the radio, yay Elmo!"

Pariah now - "Yay Katy Perry, yay Katy Perry, yay Katy Perry...would someone fuck that puppet off it's distracting me from Katy Perry!"

Adults get offended by this kind of stuff and think it's bad for children because they see it through an adults eyes, forgetting children see everything so very differently. What I don't understand is why they see sex as so dangerous. They must've had it, they have children for crying out loud, so they must know it's an enjoyable practice.

Granted I wouldn't want my 3-5 year old children if I had them watching amateur gangbang footage or any type of actual pornography, but in this instance kids of either gender will be more focussed on the puppets than they will be on KPs puppies.

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

There's a reason I don't like a large portion of the world, it's because they have a problem with literally everything. To know that there are some people who sit in their homes and actually get so mad that they have to write a letter or call in and complain is just enerving. People should calm down and back up their arguments saying something is wrong.

 

[Dexiro]

She wasn't dressed appropriately for that show. End of story.

It is irrelevant how she was dressed, kids wouldn't be corrupted by any type of clothing or even complete nudity for that matter. END of story...

Children are extremely curious about these things. They don't need a sex drive to act inappropriately.

We don't let kindergarten teachers dress like that. Perry, whether she likes it or not, is in a position of education through her role on Sesame Street and shouldn't be dressed like that. It's called professionalism. What she was wearing was out of place for an education television program aimed at small children.

The thing is it's not worth this much fuss though. Kids watch other TV shows with people dressed like that, and they see similarly dressed people in public on a daily basis.

People are making a fuss because they feel in this instance as though it's being marketed directly towards kids, but kids aren't going to give a crap if the top half of her boob is showing or whatever, they don't have an eye for this stuff.

 

[Internet Kraken]

WHO CARES?!?!

Seriously, why should I care about this? This is no way affects anyone on this board, so why is anyone here complaining about this? I honestly feel like you guys complain about stuff just for the sake of complaining sometimes.

 

[Trivun]

WHO CARES?!?!

Seriously, why should I care about this? This is no way affects anyone on this board, so why is anyone here complaining about this? I honestly feel like you guys complain about stuff just for the sake of complaining sometimes.

Pots and kettles, methinks? There's absolutely no need for you to look at this thread, nobody has forced you to read it, and thus there is no need for you to post that comment. You're complaining for no reason that other people complain for no reason, so really you're just going full circle in a fairly hypocritical manner.

 

[Kortney]

The thing is it's not worth this much fuss though.

I agree. I never said it was worth the amount of fuss it was getting. I implied that in the earlier post but the user deliberately left that out because he wanted to argue.

Kids watch other TV shows with people dressed like that, and they see similarly dressed people in public on a daily basis.

Yes they do. Sesame Street isn't for that though. It's an educational show for minors. Like I said before, we wouldn't let a teacher dress like that. Performers on Sesame Street are in similar, if not the same, positions as teachers are.

but kids aren't going to give a crap if the top half of her boob is showing or whatever, they don't have an eye for this stuff.

They do. Whilst they aren't attracted by it, they do realise that females breasts are social taboo. Kids find the idea of someone being naked extremely interesting at around age five. It's natural curiosity. No, there is nothing wrong with it but it shouldn't be put in front of them in an educational setting.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

I don't think you could ever get rid of that hype completely, but having a more open attitude definitely helps. Personally I was bought up with a more open attitude to this stuff, and I've been more concerned about finding a loving partner that I can enjoy spending time with, sex is just a fun by-product :3

It's been pretty much the same for me. Not that I've actually spoke much with my parents about sex, but this was mostly because there wasn't really apparent NEED to.

Heck they even knew about me and my stepbrother watching soft core porn late at night (and we were like 11-12 years old at the time), and that was pretty much the only situation that warranted them to say something about it, and all they said was that we should bear in mind that porn is fiction and not particularly representative of how real sexual interaction is done.

That's right two 11-12 year old boys WATCHING PORN with pretty much what you could consider "parental consent"!

We both pretty much figured out the rest on our own, and I was actually among the top three in my sex ed class. I was also one of the few students who didn't act like an immature idiot who helplessly giggled because the teacher showed us an educational picture of genitalia.

And, like you, I've never had much of a fascination with bedding as many girls as possible. At first I wasn't interested in relationships at all (neither for casual sex nor committed ones), and when I developed any kind of interest (which didn't really occur until I turned 18) it was also about finding someone I'd like to stay committed to, and not just finding an easy fuck each weekend.

Of course, the idea that a 12-year old boy watching porn with parental consent and never actually straying into the realms of morbid promiscuity and sex addiction must seem completely outrageous and unrealistic to some conservative people.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

They do. Whilst they aren't attracted by it, they do realise that females breasts are social taboo. Kids find the idea of someone being naked extremely interesting at around age five. It's natural curiosity. No, there is nothing wrong with it but it shouldn't be put in front of them in an educational setting.

Wow, I wonder what you would do when the kids grow up to be teens and have more or less naked girls around them in every class (since the female classmates start to develop their own bodies and it being rather popular to dress in revealing and a slutty manner).

One could argue that IF the kids had been subjected to breasts early on it wouldn't be so much of a big deal for them later on and they could actually GET SOME FUCKING SCHOOLWORK DONE in class instead of either slobbering over the tits of their classmates, or worrying that their own tits aren't as attractive or pretty as some of the other girls are.

 

[Kortney]

SS has a reputation to uphold and they avoid controvercy at all costs.

Exactly. And as they should, too. A child's program isn't the place for it.

But I agree with you entirely. I really wouldn't care if my little brother was watching it - as I said it doesn't offend me at all. I just think it's unprofessional. Strangely so too, I think someone dropped the ball here. It's a shame.

They do. Whilst they aren't attracted by it, they do realise that females breasts are social taboo. Kids find the idea of someone being naked extremely interesting at around age five. It's natural curiosity. No, there is nothing wrong with it but it shouldn't be put in front of them in an educational setting.

Wow, I wonder what you would do when the kids grow up to be teens and have more or less naked girls around them in every class (since the female classmates start to develop their own bodies and it being rather popular to dress in revealing and a slutty manner).

One could argue that IF the kids had been subjected to breasts early on it wouldn't be so much of a big deal for them later on and they could actually GET SOME FUCKING SCHOOLWORK DONE in class instead of either slobbering over the tits of their classmates, or worrying that their own tits aren't as attractive or pretty as some of the other girls are.

What?

I don't know where you are getting all this from. You have missed my point entirely. But anyway, males are always going to be attracted to breasts and females are always going to (secretly or otherwise) judge their and each others during puberty. It's a sexual organ. Same thing happens with penises. This even happens with small children too. That inherent curiosity is still with them.

 

[Kakashi on crack]

If anything we need to desensitize children at a young age so they don't have the same problems.

Now, I'm not talking about desensitize touchy subjects such as war and violence at a young age, but desensitize them about puberty, sex, boobs, that kind of stuff so that they don't become curious when they get older, and despite popular belief, will likely be less likely to care.

 

[Internet Kraken]

WHO CARES?!?!

Seriously, why should I care about this? This is no way affects anyone on this board, so why is anyone here complaining about this? I honestly feel like you guys complain about stuff just for the sake of complaining sometimes.

Pots and kettles, methinks? There's absolutely no need for you to look at this thread, nobody has forced you to read it, and thus there is no need for you to post that comment. You're complaining for no reason that other people complain for no reason, so really you're just going full circle in a fairly hypocritical manner.

No, I'm honestly trying to figure out why so many of you make a big deal out of this. I figure there must be some reason there's such an uproar over this.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

IT'S NOT EVEN LOW-CUT!

Look closely! It has a skin-tone part above where the dress ends.

Seriously people, how fucking afraid of sex are you that you're going to whine about a low-cut dress that's not even low-cut?

Wow, I'd be interested in seeing what you consider low-cut.

That was definitely low-cut. You can see more than a third of each breast, and the V cut of it goes way down, almost to level with the bottom breast line. It is lower than her nipples. That is low-cut, if it was cut any lower and she moved too fast to the side, one would most likely pop out.

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Considering that most pop-stars don't have much sense and think about anything that they do, that because they are famous, the things they do can effect people more than a normal person would, I'm not surprised she didn't have the decent sense to put on a normal covering shirt.

And to all people that think that this won't effect children, yeah, you are wrong. It might not effect them intensely right at the moment but it can be a memory that lasts over the years that slowly guides them to other things in their lives.

When I was four, I lived in a house that had both a gaming console and a computer. Today, I am almost obsessed with computer and console gaming.

If you raise a child that can run a muck and isn't disciplined and comes to believe that he or she can do anything without consequence and sees similar things on TV and other places, how do you think the child will turn out? They definitely won't turnout to be a proper responsible adult. They will probably think they can treat people however they want and do what they want to them, because they never got in trouble for doing what they wanted in the past.

With the case here, who knows, if a kid sees such things like large amounts of cleavage several times throughout childhood, there is a pretty good chance that that kid will have an unnatural obsession with breasts.

It is possible, because if you know anything about the human mind and psychology, even the smallest thing that happens to people in their childhood, no matter how early, can have a profound effect on them as an adult.

If you think I am wrong, all you have to do is take some basic psychology classes.

 

[smithy_2045]

Damn parents, hating on Katy Perry just coz she's more attractive than they are.

 

[Trivun]

WHO CARES?!?!

Seriously, why should I care about this? This is no way affects anyone on this board, so why is anyone here complaining about this? I honestly feel like you guys complain about stuff just for the sake of complaining sometimes.

Pots and kettles, methinks? There's absolutely no need for you to look at this thread, nobody has forced you to read it, and thus there is no need for you to post that comment. You're complaining for no reason that other people complain for no reason, so really you're just going full circle in a fairly hypocritical manner.

No, I'm honestly trying to figure out why so many of you make a big deal out of this. I figure there must be some reason there's such an uproar over this.

Oh, well, that one's easy. Basically, the OP was interested to see what other people's opinions of the topic were. The people posting are basically doing what the OP wanted, which is posting their opinions on a subject that they are interested in. People who aren't interested in the topic are abstaining from posting and leaving the thread (well, with the odd exception...). In short, exactly the same thing as what happens on almost every other Off-Topic Discussion thread.

It really is that simple.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Why there wasn't more outrage at the stupidity of that, I don't know. It's not like she was corrupting kids who watched. I just think a few 12 year old boys who got stuck watching it with their kid siblings got a pleasant surprise.

 

[Something Amyss]

The reaction may have been a bit much, but I understand it. I wouldn't exactly want my preschoolers watching the show if they made a habit of showing cleavage. Beyond that Katy Perry's music isn't exactly appropriate for children. At all.

As ooposed to wholesome acts of yesteryear, like David Bowie.

 

[Krion_Vark]

She's not a good role model for children, don't really care why they kicked her off just glad they did.

Though, did she really think that was appropriate wear for the show, how is boob valley going to appeal to pre-schoolers.

Watch the video they didn't KICK her off. They just decided not to show the clip with her. Its kind of like the banned episodes of shows. They are there they just don't get aired.

 

[Internet Kraken]

WHO CARES?!?!

Seriously, why should I care about this? This is no way affects anyone on this board, so why is anyone here complaining about this? I honestly feel like you guys complain about stuff just for the sake of complaining sometimes.

Pots and kettles, methinks? There's absolutely no need for you to look at this thread, nobody has forced you to read it, and thus there is no need for you to post that comment. You're complaining for no reason that other people complain for no reason, so really you're just going full circle in a fairly hypocritical manner.

No, I'm honestly trying to figure out why so many of you make a big deal out of this. I figure there must be some reason there's such an uproar over this.

Oh, well, that one's easy. Basically, the OP was interested to see what other people's opinions of the topic were. The people posting are basically doing what the OP wanted, which is posting their opinions on a subject that they are interested in. People who aren't interested in the topic are abstaining from posting and leaving the thread (well, with the odd exception...). In short, exactly the same thing as what happens on almost every other Off-Topic Discussion thread.

It really is that simple.

Great job not even realizing what I was asking and instead being incredibly smug. Shame that only works when you actually read the question, but I guess you were to concerned with trying to bolster your own ego to do that.

You'll notice that I wasn't asking why people were discussing this. I wanted to know why people were so outraged by something that probably doesn't affect them. A perfectly reasonable question. People here seem to take offense to thins that don't concern them in the slightest, giving me the impression that they complain just for the sake of complaining. I'm trying to see what makes them care about this beyond that.

But go ahead, continue acting like a jackass if it makes you feel superior or something. I really don't get what your problem is.

EDIT: Looking back at this, it is unnecessarily rude much like your post, so I apologize for that. However, I still stand by what I said. People here seem to be complaining for the sake of complaining, and I see nothing wrong with calling them out on that. I haven't heard one legitimate reason for anyone to care about this in the slightest.