Comments on: “At MTV, We Don’t Shoot for the 14-year-olds, We Own Them.” http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/ Weblog of the Pro-Life Action League's Youth Outreach Division Fri, 04 May 2012 20:49:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Pansy Moss http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2736 Pansy Moss Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:20:20 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2736 John, I agree. It's just when I look at the videos, I have equal parts horror at the innuendo and the blatant shows of worship of things. John,
I agree. It’s just when I look at the videos, I have equal parts horror at the innuendo and the blatant shows of worship of things.

]]> By: John http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2727 John Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:02:57 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2727 <strong>Pansy said: "I have as much issue, if not more so of the materialism is god attitude, as I do with the promiscuity."</strong> Pansy, Interesting point. I'm inclined to think that the relationship between promiscuity and the "materialism is god" ethos is of the Chicken-or-the-Egg variety. It also seems to me that promiscuity could be considered a form of materialism. Pansy said: “I have as much issue, if not more so of the materialism is god attitude, as I do with the promiscuity.”

Pansy,

Interesting point.

I’m inclined to think that the relationship between promiscuity and the “materialism is god” ethos is of the Chicken-or-the-Egg variety.

It also seems to me that promiscuity could be considered a form of materialism.

]]> By: Pansy Moss http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2718 Pansy Moss Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:13:55 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2718 <i>Oic! Haven’t even held a hundred dollar bill in my hands. =)</i> LOL, I know. Beyond my "Washingtons" and "Lincolns" I would not know who is on what! LOL <i>Btw, those are disgusting lyrics! I hope them songwriters stop penning such stuff… </i> Disgusting is the new virtue. Oic! Haven’t even held a hundred dollar bill in my hands. =)

LOL, I know. Beyond my “Washingtons” and “Lincolns” I would not know who is on what! LOL

Btw, those are disgusting lyrics! I hope them songwriters stop penning such stuff…

Disgusting is the new virtue.

]]> By: Sunnyday http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2704 Sunnyday Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:28:37 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2704 Oic! Haven't even held a hundred dollar bill in my hands. =) Thanks for explaining, Pansy =) Btw, those are disgusting lyrics! I hope them songwriters stop penning such stuff... Oic! Haven’t even held a hundred dollar bill in my hands. =) Thanks for explaining, Pansy =)

Btw, those are disgusting lyrics! I hope them songwriters stop penning such stuff…

]]> By: Pansy Moss http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2690 Pansy Moss Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:02:08 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2690 noun Benjamin Money. From the one hundred dollar bill, which has Benjamin Franklin on the front. "It's all about the Benjamins" -- Puff Daddy (It's All About The Benjamins baby!! My man Killa Cam off "young cassanovas" on the "how to be a player" soundtrack: "Now I know what a woman think, but girl I'm top ten rank/ But I only get hard when I see Ben Frank in the bank" noun

Benjamin

Money. From the one hundred dollar bill, which has Benjamin Franklin on the front. “It’s all about the Benjamins” — Puff Daddy (It’s All About The Benjamins baby!!

My man Killa Cam off “young cassanovas” on the “how to be a player” soundtrack: “Now I know what a woman think, but girl I’m top ten rank/ But I only get hard when I see Ben Frank in the bank”

]]> By: lauren http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2685 lauren Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:57:08 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2685 i copied the wrong passage I haven’t seen more than a few minutes of MTV in my whole life. It would be nice to only have to pay for the channels you like. i copied the wrong passage

I haven’t seen more than a few minutes of MTV in my whole life. It would be nice to only have to pay for the channels you like.

]]> By: lauren http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2684 lauren Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:55:56 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2684 "My family did not have a TV until I was 10. We also were not allowed to have radios. Instead of getting “into” music, I played with the kids from the neighborhood. " Holla at that Joe.. You should get in touch with the Republicans and let them know.. Many dems have been working on this issue for awhile. “My family did not have a TV until I was 10. We also were not allowed to have radios. Instead of getting “into” music, I played with the kids from the neighborhood. ”

Holla at that Joe.. You should get in touch with the Republicans and let them know.. Many dems have been working on this issue for awhile.

]]> By: Sunnyday http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2670 Sunnyday Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:59:52 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2670 "...and I cannot tell you how tired I am of seeing the same video of a bunch of guys blinged out holding a bunch of benjamins surrounded by scantily clad girls booty dancing." Pansy, what are "benjamins"? “…and I cannot tell you how tired I am of seeing the same video of a bunch of guys blinged out holding a bunch of benjamins surrounded by scantily clad girls booty dancing.”

Pansy, what are “benjamins”?

]]> By: Sunnyday http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2668 Sunnyday Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:42:38 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2668 I like music a lot and used to watch MTV sometimes in the 1980s. Then I stopped watching for about a decade, and then when I recently started channel-surfing again and came across MTV, it was always showing scantily-clad women in sexually-charged dances. And I noticed that most of the time (at least when I got to tune in) it was black groups/dancers wherein the women act like prostitutes and the men making the women in the video act like their slaves. It is all so demeaning. Let me make it clear that I look up to black people in general because I admire Martin Luther King, Denzel Washington, and some professional basketball players, so I hope nobody misconstrues what I just wrote there about black people I see in those raunchy music videos. I am delighted, though, that there is a lot less of Britney Spears in MTV now, and when the Spice Girls broke up, I truly rejoiced because my 11-year-old niece then was starting to "idolize" them! Oh, one important thing: the merits of giving feedback CANNOT be underestimated. Once, when a teenage friend of a friend came back from a media-related international event (a conference or something), she said that in a conversation it came up that what's shown on MTV Asia is quite different from the regular MTV -- and especially in the Philippines, MTV has to tame the programming because my country is known for being conservative. So we were told to keep up the feedback and the complaints when the show's contents offend our sensibilities -- and to make our feelings known. I like music a lot and used to watch MTV sometimes in the 1980s. Then I stopped watching for about a decade, and then when I recently started channel-surfing again and came across MTV, it was always showing scantily-clad women in sexually-charged dances. And I noticed that most of the time (at least when I got to tune in) it was black groups/dancers wherein the women act like prostitutes and the men making the women in the video act like their slaves. It is all so demeaning. Let me make it clear that I look up to black people in general because I admire Martin Luther King, Denzel Washington, and some professional basketball players, so I hope nobody misconstrues what I just wrote there about black people I see in those raunchy music videos.

I am delighted, though, that there is a lot less of Britney Spears in MTV now, and when the Spice Girls broke up, I truly rejoiced because my 11-year-old niece then was starting to “idolize” them!

Oh, one important thing: the merits of giving feedback CANNOT be underestimated. Once, when a teenage friend of a friend came back from a media-related international event (a conference or something), she said that in a conversation it came up that what’s shown on MTV Asia is quite different from the regular MTV — and especially in the Philippines, MTV has to tame the programming because my country is known for being conservative. So we were told to keep up the feedback and the complaints when the show’s contents offend our sensibilities — and to make our feelings known.

]]> By: Lucy http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2666 Lucy Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:38:11 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2666 Mtv still exists? You learn something new every day. Mtv still exists? You learn something new every day.

]]> By: John http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2656 John Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:51:32 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2656 <strong>Joe said: "A lot of the time I feel like taking my TV, putting a sign “FREE” on it and leaving it on the curb. Perhaps some day…"</strong> Joe, What you need is a <a href="http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php" rel="nofollow">TV-B-Gone</a>. Joe said: “A lot of the time I feel like taking my TV, putting a sign “FREE” on it and leaving it on the curb. Perhaps some day…”

Joe,

What you need is a TV-B-Gone.

]]> By: joe http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2655 joe Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:36:11 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2655 I haven't seen more than a few minutes of MTV in my whole life. It would be nice to only have to pay for the channels you like. My family did not have a TV until I was 10. We also were not allowed to have radios. Instead of getting "into" music, I played with the kids from the neighborhood. A lot of the time I feel like taking my TV, putting a sign "FREE" on it and leaving it on the curb. Perhaps some day... I haven’t seen more than a few minutes of MTV in my whole life. It would be nice to only have to pay for the channels you like.

My family did not have a TV until I was 10. We also were not allowed to have radios. Instead of getting “into” music, I played with the kids from the neighborhood.

A lot of the time I feel like taking my TV, putting a sign “FREE” on it and leaving it on the curb. Perhaps some day…

]]> By: Lauren http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2638 Lauren Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:56:01 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2638 see: mtvu.com see: mtvu.com

]]> By: Mike http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2637 Mike Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:23:48 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2637 I used to watch MTV at times in the early 80's when they showed music video's 24/7. I do like music. I don't know why they call it music television anymore because I never see videos on the channel anymore. All I see now are singles sleeping with each other in bed. Remember in the 70's on "I Love Lucy" both Lucy and her husband on the show were actually married in real life. On the show both Lucy and Her Husband had separate beds even though they were married in real life. Now when you watch MTV its anything goes. Numerous teens are in the same bed and nobody's married. These changes all occured in just 30 years. I wish cable tv would subtract off my bill channels I really do not want. The only cable channels I want to pay for are EWTN and sports channels. The rest of the channels I can do without. Mike I used to watch MTV at times in the early 80′s when they showed music video’s 24/7. I do like music. I don’t know why they call it music television anymore because I never see videos on the channel anymore. All I see now are singles sleeping with each other in bed.

Remember in the 70′s on “I Love Lucy” both Lucy and her husband on the show were actually married in real life. On the show both Lucy and Her Husband had separate beds even though they were married in real life. Now when you watch MTV its anything goes. Numerous teens are in the same bed and nobody’s married. These changes all occured in just 30 years.

I wish cable tv would subtract off my bill channels I really do not want. The only cable channels I want to pay for are EWTN and sports channels. The rest of the channels I can do without.

Mike

]]> By: Pansy Moss http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2634 Pansy Moss Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:34:26 +0000 http://generationsforlife.org/2006/0727/at-mtv-we-don%e2%80%99t-shoot-for-the-14-year-olds-we-own-them/#comment-2634 I find MTV so incredibly offensive. There is a show on TV where the parents of a guy does not approve of his girlfriend, so they set him up with a date with another girl, and make the girlfriend sit there and watch the televised date. Sometimes the guy decides the heck woth his girlfriend, sometimes he stays with her. But the whole things is so dehumanising and degrading. There are lots of reality shows that treat people and relationships like objects like that on MTV. The videos are not much better. I don't even know when MTV shows videos anymore, but my kids watch 106th and Park sometimes (BET), and I cannot tell you how tired I am of seeing the same video of a bunch of guys blinged out holding a bunch of benjamins surrounded by scantily clad girls booty dancing. I have as much issue, if not more so of the materialism is god attitude, as I do with the promiscuity. I find MTV so incredibly offensive. There is a show on TV where the parents of a guy does not approve of his girlfriend, so they set him up with a date with another girl, and make the girlfriend sit there and watch the televised date. Sometimes the guy decides the heck woth his girlfriend, sometimes he stays with her. But the whole things is so dehumanising and degrading. There are lots of reality shows that treat people and relationships like objects like that on MTV.

The videos are not much better. I don’t even know when MTV shows videos anymore, but my kids watch 106th and Park sometimes (BET), and I cannot tell you how tired I am of seeing the same video of a bunch of guys blinged out holding a bunch of benjamins surrounded by scantily clad girls booty dancing.

I have as much issue, if not more so of the materialism is god attitude, as I do with the promiscuity.

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