BBC Banned!

[scotpens]

Puns and innuendo were the only ways we could get our smut on TV in the seventies. We learned to make do. At least until Channel 4 came along. Then the gloves were off, along with all their other clothes.

Didn't you have Benny Hill for that?

Now I have visions of Rand chasing Kirk in a ripped shirt while being followed by Areel Shaw, Helen Noel, Janice Lester, and a cluster of tribbles...

In speeded-up motion to the accompaniment of "Yakkety Sax."

 

[Vandervecken]

The powers that be frequently suppress examples of females who physically abuse males because it doesn't fit into the standard feminist political agenda.

This has earned you another infraction for trolling with sexist comments.

It certainly seems like you have some kind of axe to grind, but this is neither the thread nor the forum in which to do so.

I saw nothing wrong with what he wrote. It wasn't a sexist comment. The only thing referenced was a perceived feminist political agenda as a cause for TV censorship.

All groups have their own agenda for the furthering of their specific cause. That's life.

I was puzzled by this as well. I thought the original comment made no real sense, an opinion several other posters have already well presented, but was this post rebuked because the poster used the phrase "standard feminist political agenda"? There most certainly IS such a thing. Nothing sexist about saying so. There's a standard/main political agenda for every group with political clout, as you've pointed out.

 

[Pauln6]

Can someone explain to me the difference between a 'feminist' agenda and an 'equality' agenda. And do people that view one as bad also view the other as bad?

 

[Vandervecken]

Can someone explain to me the difference between a 'feminist' agenda and an 'equality' agenda. And do people that view one as bad also view the other as bad?

Are these the same in common parlance? I've never heard that.

 

[MacLeod]

Maybe TPTB missed Zena or Buffy. I recall a bit of man punching in these series.

While I know the point you're actually making (and I'm not going to weigh in on it ), I will just make the side observation that Buffy certainly didn't go unscathed on its British broadcasts: things did get cut from time to time.

It was really only relatively recently that UK censors relaxed a lot of their more outdated policies.

Really I find that pretty amazing.
I suppose I've only seen it here at a 'late' night timeslot on commercial TV (after 9:30pm) presumably with no cuts. That's until they eventually showed it on SyFy 24/7.

Maybe I should be glad to be in a country without this form of censorship - unless they have been censored and I didn't know about it.
Although thinking about it. I Suppose this is not the forum but when I watched VOY I never saw what happened to the Borg baby. I'm now wondering if it was cut out.

Different countries censor different things, take an example of a film. "The King's Speech" and the scene with the swearing, it eventually passed the UK BBFC with a 12A rating, yet in the US the MPAA gave it an R rating.

As for Buffy wasn't part of the reason it had an easier time in the US was they used some UK terms so it would pass censorship in the US as those terms/phrases were less common in the US. So when it hit the UK it had aharder time because of those terms/phrases.

 

[Hypaspist]

It seems to me that the whole ratings system has lost its damn mind since the 1990s.

In the 80's, everything was PG unless it was straight up face melting violence or titties everywhere. Actually it's kind of funny how Top Gun is PG but Pirates of the Caribbean is PG-13. Then there was the whole BS controversy about Red Dawn, which wasn't as violent as it was offensive to a lot of Hollywood people. The Matrix being rated R is a total joke to me and actually took me by surprise when we got hassled at the theater (same for Gladiator in the same year).
I could go on all day.

It's why I'm such a big fan of parents making the decision. I trust my own judgement a lot better than people who make ratings (in any country) because we have our own deciding factors going in to it all.

Definitely one thing I remember about Trek: the transporter meltdown was the most F-ed up thing I ever saw as a kid, even worse than Alien. I think it was because I had a big imagination and because seeing a Vulcan die was extra sad.

 

[Vandervecken]

Definitely one thing I remember about Trek: the transporter meltdown was the most F-ed up thing I ever saw as a kid, even worse than Alien. I think it was because I had a big imagination and because seeing a Vulcan die was extra sad.

That scene is truly horrific and yeah, it hit my stomach pretty badly too when I was a teenager.