11.29.2011

Planes, Trains and... Boobies?

So everyday I take a 40 minute train ride into work.  I love it as it allows me to watch DVDs of TV series.  If you total up the entire time for a week I can get through a series in about a week and a half.  I just finished Life on Mars (I was right) and am now laughing away to Its Always Sunny season 6.

Next up is Deadwood Season 2.  Which raises a particular quandary... nudity on public transportation.

Now I don't mean actual nudity.  I am not prone to not wearing clothes - even on casual Friday.  However, the whores on Deadwood don't seem to have such social values.  Almost every episode of Deadwood has some gratuitous nudity at one point or another.  I am usually sitting next to an elderly Chinese women when it comes on who always looks at me like I am the devil.

So the question becomes is it wrong to have nudity in the show I am watching in a public place?  I "think" not, but I "feel" differently.  For some reason whenever the nudity comes on I feel like I am being caught metaphorically slinking out of a strip club.  I fidget in my seat and try and tilt the screen down.  For some reason I don't feel the same way about extreme violence.  Many episodes of Deadwood involve a shooting or a stabbing or a corpse rotting from dysentery.  None of that makes me feel as guilty as a exposed breast does.

Maybe I am being crazy.  I have never seen a child on the GO train.  Everyone on the GO train is an adult.   If they can't take the heat they shouldn't be watching over my shoulder.  

Plus no nudity would severely cut back on the shows I could watch.  No "Games of Thrones", "Rome" or pretty much anything from HBO.  Don't get me started on True Blood which is really just soft core porn for women with the addition of very bad vampire effects (and is kinda creepy if you ever watched "the Piano"). 

I guess I am all for breaking social norms if it results in better entertainment for me.

So I have placed my flag firmly in the pro-boobs on trains camp.  This is one of the benefits of being an adult.  If the elderly Chinese lady doesn't like it she can go to hell.  On a related note she probably thinks I am going there already.

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