I guess that many of you have seen the story about NBC banning the PETA Veggie Love (or vegetarians have better sex) ad from being aired during the Super Bowl.
Ok...I've watched it. Yeah, it's "hot" and sexy...anddddd, soooo.
Let's see if I have this right. NBC is not letting a veggie/sexy commercial on during a game where grown men smash into each other trying to knock their opponents (and the ball) out so that they can get a chance to "score" while scantilly clad young ladies on the sidelines cheer them on. The fans scream and yell (sometimes using obscenities) to "motivate" their favorite team to get some points on the board and beat the livin' daylights outta the guys in the other uniforms. In the mean time the cameras will spend quite a bit of time scanning the Cheerleaders as they bounce up and down.
Hmm...interesting. What else. Right! During the breaks there's always some commercials about drinking beer, driving fancy cars (often with sexual overtones), and of course the network's promos for its own shows (usually with someone shooting someone else, investigating a murder, committing a murder, or cheating somebody out of something).
Now, would I rather watch a commercial that actually tells me that vegetarians have better sex, a car company intimating it, or someone getting shot? I'll go for the honest approach. It's a shame that we, as a nation, haven't lost our thirst for violence and matured to the point where we can accept love (and sex...or at least talking about it) as something equal to (or better than) watching a group of actors figure out the reasons for a murder.
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