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- From: 4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (John LaRocque)
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- Subject: Re: Virginie's TV violence petition
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:57:03 GMT
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- > In article <Bxz3xn.1zu@DMI.USherb.CA>, paien00@DMI.USherb.CA (Nick) writes:
-
- (quoting myself here :-> )
- >>In Montreal few people would go to war over sexy signs advertising "danseuses
- >>nues" (that doesn't include City Council). Few people complain about the
- >>amount of sex in programs like Lance et Compte or Les Filles de Caleb (which
- >>had a record 3 million audience watching one night). If you told a Quebecer
- >>that sexy signs or a near naked Mitsou causes men to go and rape women, they
- >>would laugh in your face. So why the f**k would people make the
- >>same infantile conclusion regarding violence on TV.
- >
- > Is sex scenes suppossed to be violent????
- >
-
- No, you have not read this correctly at all. Lance et Compte did not cause
- the rape of women any more than the A-Team or Wile E Coyte is responsible for
- the death of Virginie's sister.
-
-
- > It's not because you don't have any effects on violence that everybody
- > is like you! Face it there's a lot of weirdos out there and God knows
- > what they can do when they see images of an heros who's shooting
- > everybody????
-
- Yeah, there are "weirdos" everywhere and TV caused all of them to go and rape
- and kill, right? That's like Hitler blaming Jews for Germany's economic woes!
- (ou Duplessis et les communistes!)
-
-
- >> No, and anybody who thinks otherwise is ignoring the real causes
- >>of violence in North America.
- >
- > witch is????
- >
-
- Upbringing, violent homes, poverty...... stuff that has been around a LOT
- longer than TV (TV didn't start World War I either).
-
- > Nick
-
- --
- John P. LaRocque
- vader@uwo.ca
- University of Western Ontario
- London, Ontario
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- "Urk..urk..."
- "Apologies accepted, Captian Nida", Darth Vader
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