Jackass Number 2
What do Mind of Mencia, The Man Show, Yo Momma and Southpark have in common?
Well (and this is my personal opinion, though I don't see how it wouldn't occur to a lot of other people), it so happens that each of these shows appears to have a really high content of material that is pornographic/derogatory in nature (but still supposedly filed under 'Humour') to the point of being extreme and sick (again: my personal opinion), and which has no regard whatsoever to any particular section's (of society) sensibilities.
Some things that these shows make fun of : dwarf people, homosexuals, the aged, women, children, jews/muslims/christians, blacks, asians and so on.
Now, I don't care who they make fun of as long as it's all in jest. But doesn't this lead to a kind of societal trend where people get exposed to such material and lose any sense of respect for other people's beliefs? What about the effect on young children that watch these shows? In my two weeks here, I've seen two different news items about teenagers plotting massacres in their own school and kill their classmates (one of these was a huge planned bombing plus random shooting in a school in Wisconsin).
I think this kind of humour culminates in the release of Jackass Number Two tomorrow in the US - a movie where a group of people do the stupidest and most dangerous of things (most inspired from Tom n Jerry - but heck that was a 2D cartoon).
To their credit though, the shows poke fun at everyone, sparing none.
Somehow, it just doesn't seem right, though.
Well (and this is my personal opinion, though I don't see how it wouldn't occur to a lot of other people), it so happens that each of these shows appears to have a really high content of material that is pornographic/derogatory in nature (but still supposedly filed under 'Humour') to the point of being extreme and sick (again: my personal opinion), and which has no regard whatsoever to any particular section's (of society) sensibilities.
Some things that these shows make fun of : dwarf people, homosexuals, the aged, women, children, jews/muslims/christians, blacks, asians and so on.
Now, I don't care who they make fun of as long as it's all in jest. But doesn't this lead to a kind of societal trend where people get exposed to such material and lose any sense of respect for other people's beliefs? What about the effect on young children that watch these shows? In my two weeks here, I've seen two different news items about teenagers plotting massacres in their own school and kill their classmates (one of these was a huge planned bombing plus random shooting in a school in Wisconsin).
I think this kind of humour culminates in the release of Jackass Number Two tomorrow in the US - a movie where a group of people do the stupidest and most dangerous of things (most inspired from Tom n Jerry - but heck that was a 2D cartoon).
To their credit though, the shows poke fun at everyone, sparing none.
Somehow, it just doesn't seem right, though.
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