RAP attack!

[RobertScorpio]

The stories, and slang, I've heard from friends and family in the military I know is far more vulgar than anything I've ever heard in an office. And shielding women from pictures with nudity because they're women is awfully presumptuous and sexist. "Protecting" them from lyrics is equally so--at least as sexist as the mysogynistic lyrics in any rap song.

If you listen to Sting, Elvis Costello, or Death Cab for Cutie, most of those songs are kind of mysogynistic too. Would their songs get censored? Unlikely. What about John Lennon's Working Class Hero, which drops and F-Bomb. The military, like any workplace is a place for adults old enough to have been exposed to this stuff already. Shielding people from it is silly.

Having been in the military, i can tell you that they are trying to change the image of the typical navy sailor. They are going through great lengths because they are starting to downsize. This gives the navy the ability to start raising the standards of what they believe is acceptable behavior...

And since many of the commands deal directly with outside sources, Fed Ex-UPS, and have many civilian workers working beside them, there is a push to get rid of any action that might be considered offensive..

The hanging of nude pictures, and music, be it Rap or Rock or whatever, that contains offensive lyrics, will not be tolerated. We just had a sailor go to mass because the music he was playing in his own car, while driving on base. not because it was loud but because it was offensive. Who reported the offensive music? A 65 year old widow...GOOD FOR HER...

Rob
scorpio

 

[RobertScorpio]

The stories, and slang, I've heard from friends and family in the military I know is far more vulgar than anything I've ever heard in an office. And shielding women from pictures with nudity because they're women is awfully presumptuous and sexist. "Protecting" them from lyrics is equally so--at least as sexist as the mysogynistic lyrics in any rap song.

If you listen to Sting, Elvis Costello, or Death Cab for Cutie, most of those songs are kind of mysogynistic too. Would their songs get censored? Unlikely. What about John Lennon's Working Class Hero, which drops and F-Bomb. The military, like any workplace is a place for adults old enough to have been exposed to this stuff already. Shielding people from it is silly.

Having been in the military, i can tell you that they are trying to change the image of the typical navy sailor. They are going through great lengths because they are starting to downsize. This gives the navy the ability to start raising the standards of what they believe is acceptable behavior...

And since many of the commands deal directly with outside sources, Fed Ex-UPS, and have many civilian workers working beside them, there is a push to get rid of any action that might be considered offensive..

The hanging of nude pictures, and music, be it Rap or Rock or whatever, that contains offensive lyrics, will not be tolerated. We just had a sailor go to mass because of the music he was playing in his own car, while driving on base. not because it was loud but because it was offensive. Who reported the offensive music? A 65 year old widow...GOOD FOR HER...

Rob
scorpio

 

[cyph]

We just had a sailor go to mass because of the music he was playing in his own car, while driving on base. not because it was loud but because it was offensive. Who reported the offensive music? A 65 year old widow...GOOD FOR HER...

Rob
scorpio

That sounds (pun!) rather unlikely. For anyone really, to distinguish individual words of the lyrics from afar, coming from somebody else's car, and being so utterly offended decided to somehow identify the individual DRIVING BY to get caught up like that. Not saying it's impossible. I don't know what "had a sailor go to mass" means, but if it's worse than getting a simple warning, then that's absurd.

I hope this thread doesn't turn into a censorship-debate. Really, I thought this thread was DONE already...