Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:57:52 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Some feedback to the Sci-Fi channel
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Sirah!  Nekkid wimmen on the tv will pollute the precious bodily fluids
of our yutes!

mjw
Top poting from MidWestcon

>>> omni at omniphile.com 06/21/07 12:59 PM >>>
I just sent a message to feedback at scifi.com about their censorship
practices.  A copy is below.  If you agree with the sentiments, and
have seen similar things on the channel, you might want to consider
sending your own feedback.

http://www.scifi.com/help/feedback/

If you disagree, you can still send them feedback if you like, but
I'd like to find out what screwed your head up enough to think like
that... ;-)

-- Mike B.

>Dear Sci-Fi:
>
>I watched a movie on your channel recently, "Blood Rayne", and was
>struck by the fact that you chose to censor some scenes.  It wasn't
>that you censored the movie (though I generally object to the
>concept and think you should either show it as it was made, or show
>something else), so much as what you felt needed censoring.
>
>You left in extreme violence, including explicit views of body parts
>being severed, blood spurting, and people being hacked apart,
>impaled, having the life literally sucked out of them and other
>horrors, but blurred out some simple nudity.  In my opinion anyone
>who thinks that violent death and maiming is just fine, but that
>nude women are obscene, needs some serious professional help, or at
>the very least to re-examine their world view.
>
>That this kind of value judgement is very common in the USA does not
>mean that it is right, healthy or should be supported.  It just
>means that we have a very sick society.  Please try to be more of a
>cure and less of a carrier.
>
>Thank you.
>
>-- Michael Bartman