Pages Tagged “culture wars”
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- Culture Wars
I’ve long disliked the term “culture war,” partly because it’s tossed around in a way that trivializes the issues and partly because “War on whatever” framing tends to confuse the issues. But I keep thinking of a line in Cat Valente’s novel Space Opera about what war is. And when it comes down to it, […]
- Desperate in Decency
It looks like the FCC isn’t completely insane. After four months, they concluded that the now-infamous Desperate Housewives locker room promo isn’t indecent after all. “Although the scene apparently is intended to be titillating, it simply is not graphic or explicit enough to be indecent under our standard.” I saw the spot—or at least something […]