[UA] MPAA / Nookie

[Russell Rayburn]

On 2/15/07, Chris Cooper <insectking at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Russell Rayburn <rusrayburn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We are strange in our acceptance of violence while
> > abhoring sexuality
> > ( or at least nudity ), but at least we don't get
> > them mixed up ;) .
>
> That's just general psychosocial neuroses of Western
> culture. Don't get excited just because it also occurs
> in the US.
>

Ah, of course.  Sorry I violated groupthink; US / Western Countries ==
Always Evil, Everywhere Else == Noble.

This from South Africa, no?  One of the countries more violent than
the US [1][2].

Or is that George Bush's fault?  Damn, my groupthink must be off.

Getting back on topic, after a bit of googling I found this:

http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1997/April/erapril.21/4_21_97JapanComics.html

Which touches on the mix of sex and violence I recall from my time in
Japan.  I really don't see the same mix here in the US; things like
rape of course appear in media, but not as a good thing.

If one views violent media as an escapist fantasy of personal power,
the how does one view sexualized violent media as other than a fantasy
of personal power and personal sexual potentcy... and what does that
say about the consumers of same?

Or, in UA terms, which archtype benefits from not just hyperviolence
but sexualized hyperviolence?  Is the Freak pushing for the Mystic
Hermaphrodite to embrace a more agressive posture, something akin to
the pink pistols (
http://www.pinkpistols.org/
)?


[1] http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita
[2] http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap_percap-crime-rapes-per-capita

-- 
Psychotics think two and two make five.
Neurotics know two and two make four
but they can't stand it.
- Anonymous