marimbamadness replied to your quote: The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical,…

I agree completely. I found the misogynistic super bowl ads much more offensive and obscene.

What’s going to affect America’s youth more negatively — a brief flip of the bird (which was hard to see in the first place and I bet most kids didn’t notice) or 10 commercials that send very, very backwards messages to impressionable children about how their gender should act/be treated?

I’m glad SFJ brought this up, and I wish more people would complain about this, too. Honestly, what kid didn’t hear a “fuck you” once in their life growing up?

When I was 4/5 years old, I went on a camping trip with my family and my mom’s best friend’s family. My childhood best friend and I rode in the RV with her dad while everyone else followed behind. I was sitting in the front seat with my friend fiddling with the radio — and, lucky us! “Brass Monkey” was on the radio. We loved that damn song at this age.

Naturally, we turned the radio up as loud as it would go and began shouting the song out the window as my friend’s dad was laughing uncontrollably. Some guy in a truck pulled up alongside the RV and, I guess, was a little shocked to see two small girls screaming some rap song out the window. I caught him staring, and (as the story goes), gave the driver a very stern look and shouted:

“FUCK YOU!”

I still think I turned out pretty OK.