Originally posted by Major_Clanger
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Realistically, people need to stop being offended by things like this. While I agree the general maturity level is lower than what it should be, we should be over the "there's boobs on TV!" phase. Unless you're really young in which case I could understand your point because you might still be in the "nudity is wrong" phase. That's fine, everyone is subject to that. But once people grow up it becomes less of an issue...or at least it should. On top of that, the fact that this particular example is a major part of the plot and they only used it once, means it was more than acceptable, necessary even.
A good quote on this issue is from Michael Fassbender when he was promoting Shame. A lot of people thought him showing his penis in the movie was so controversial but here's what he has to say about it:
"Half of us have a penis and the other half have probably seen one, and so why should it be more normal to, like, chop people's heads off and shoot people? Does that mean that that's more acceptable or closer to us as human beings?"
"You don't know what anybody else is going to feel, you just go for it and put it out there and hopefully other people connect to it in some way or another."
"You don't know what anybody else is going to feel, you just go for it and put it out there and hopefully other people connect to it in some way or another."
Look at Game of Thrones for instance, you will hear people say "oh there's too much unnecessary nudity in the show I won't watch it." Yet those same people will read the books and will read those scenes being described and praise the books for being so fantastic. That is hypocrisy to the utmost. What does reading do? Invoke imagination to see what's on the page. That is no different than seeing it on the screen, you're seeing boobs either way.
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