brysonisgood:

The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve been tired out by before. M.I.A. was illustrating her line, acting out the attitude of the words: performing. Fine, it may not be legal to flip the bird on television, but that’s simply a remnant of the fifties we haven’t shaken. Unless somebody was handing out Xanax with the foam fingers, Lucas Oil Stadium was ringing with the music of profanities last night. More to the point, television viewers were submitted to ad after ad that likened women—negatively—to sofas, cars, and candy. Mr. Winter didn’t have anything to say about that, so I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks profanity is somehow more harmful to our children than images of violence and misogyny.

Fuck misogyny!

This is exactly my problem with censorship. We’re teaching kids that curse words and the middle finger are bad, but women are objects. We sexualize everything, but get mad when somebody says FUCK! 

I’m with MIA and Sasha Frere-Jones on this one. Fuck Tim Winter, fuck the Parents Television Council, fuck everybody who fights profanity but never takes a second to think about what we all do allow our children to see and be taught by the world.

(Source: matryoshhka)