I had a thread about how you can tell Samus is sexualized from the size of her butt. All of a sudden the thread was closed, no reason given and no message sent to me about it. Of course, it's most probably due to the sexual nature it was closed.
However, I bet the mods on this board would have no trouble with a similar thread, but with a violence or weapon based theme instead. Violence and weapons are deeply rooted within American culture, and have been exported to Europe via popular culture such as Hollywood movies and music. You can easily joke about "I'm going to kill you if you do that!", but try making the exact same joke about **** and it's suddenly not funny. Why is this?
I think it's because of Christianity values that US and large parts of Europe are OK with discussions about weapons and violence, but not about sex. In Japan on the other hand, they don't have Christianity, and they don't have these moral values about sexuality either. In the US, it's considered "dangerous" to talk about the naked body to kids. Why? Everyone is naked underneath the clothes.
All of this is based on morals, and I think the sexual morals in the west comes from Christianity values. That's why you have crowds cheering at E3 when extreme violence is displayed, but if a **** was displayed he crowd would be offended - even though brutal murder is much worse than ****. Do you agree?
And look at this. The word **** is censored, yet it's perfectly fine to display words such as "murder" and "violence". Do you understand that this can be viewed as strong hypocracy?
However, I bet the mods on this board would have no trouble with a similar thread, but with a violence or weapon based theme instead. Violence and weapons are deeply rooted within American culture, and have been exported to Europe via popular culture such as Hollywood movies and music. You can easily joke about "I'm going to kill you if you do that!", but try making the exact same joke about **** and it's suddenly not funny. Why is this?
I think it's because of Christianity values that US and large parts of Europe are OK with discussions about weapons and violence, but not about sex. In Japan on the other hand, they don't have Christianity, and they don't have these moral values about sexuality either. In the US, it's considered "dangerous" to talk about the naked body to kids. Why? Everyone is naked underneath the clothes.
All of this is based on morals, and I think the sexual morals in the west comes from Christianity values. That's why you have crowds cheering at E3 when extreme violence is displayed, but if a **** was displayed he crowd would be offended - even though brutal murder is much worse than ****. Do you agree?
And look at this. The word **** is censored, yet it's perfectly fine to display words such as "murder" and "violence". Do you understand that this can be viewed as strong hypocracy?
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