{"id":384,"date":"2008-11-19T21:35:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T02:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2008-11-19T21:35:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T02:35:18","slug":"angry-and-elusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2008\/20081119-384.htm","title":{"rendered":"Angry and Elusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I looked up from the table I&#8217;d been wiping to see that four male coworkers, and the male half of the one remaining couple left in the dining room, were staring at the tv screen.  When I glanced towards the screen, what I saw had me race-walking to a remote to turn off the tvs.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what makes tv producers think they can show naked women on television at 7:30 in the evening (or at any time for that matter), but whatever it is, they&#8217;re just plain wrong.  I don&#8217;t care if they&#8217;re making a &#8220;mock-u-mentary&#8221; on Playboy bunnies&#8211;showing naked women is still not appropriate.  I object on so many different levels.  1) Nudity (especially of the type I saw) should be classified as obscenity.  It is inappropriate and vulgar. 2) The type of nudity that I saw (and that my male coworkers were glued to) objectifies females, reducing them to sex objects.  This objectification is bad for both men and women&#8211;who find it increasingly difficult to have healthy views of their and others&#8217; bodies, healthy attitudes towards sex, and healthy sexual relationships, partly due to this objectification. 3)<br \/>\nI saw this nudity on tv during &#8220;prime time&#8221;. Sure it may be cable, but don&#8217;t be so naive as to think that children don&#8217;t have access to cable tv at 7:30 in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>No one&#8211;not adults, not children, not males, not females&#8211;should ever have to see such a thing on television.<\/p>\n<p>I was still steaming about the nude playmate I&#8217;d just seen when a coworker asked me &#8220;How old are you, Rebekah?&#8221;  Now realize, I&#8217;m not a very secretive person.  My life is pretty much an open book.  But today, and with this guy, I just really didn&#8217;t want to say.  So I answered with an elusive &#8220;I&#8217;m in my mid-twenties.&#8221;  &#8220;That&#8217;s about what I would have guessed,&#8221; he returned.  &#8220;I&#8217;m not exactly a spring chicken myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re not.  Nice try buddy, but that&#8217;s a strike out.  I prefer <i>mature<\/i> men&#8211;and those who look <i>away<\/i> rather than look <i>twice<\/i> when a naked woman appears on a tv screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I looked up from the table I&#8217;d been wiping to see that four male coworkers, and the male half of the one remaining couple left in the dining room, were staring at the tv screen. When I glanced towards the screen, what I saw had me race-walking to a remote to turn off the tvs. &#8230; <a title=\"Angry and Elusive\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2008\/20081119-384.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Angry and Elusive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}