GOSSIP: Parents are Pissed About Gossip Girl
Apparently, parents don’t like their kids watching lesbian and threesome scenes on network TV…who knew?
the Parents Television Council is blaming the TV networks (again) for corrupting their children (again)…The highly controversial “threesome episode” of Gossip Girl is scheduled to air on Monday, and the network has received a lot of requests to preempt the show because it “sends the wrong message.” You’d think by now, parents would realize that this can only help the show with ratings. How many times have we seen this? 2 Live Crew, South Park, or Eminem ring a bell?!
Here’s an excerpt from the letter sent to the CW…
*Article via PerezHilton*
Dear [Name]:
By now you must be aware of reports in Entertainment Weekly and elsewhere that the November 9th episode of the teen-targeted drama Gossip Girl will feature major characters in a sexual threesome.
To include a story line like this on a program that is expressly targeted to impressionable teenagers is reckless and irresponsible. I appeal to your highest sense of decency, respect and common sense in urging you to preempt this episode.
Television is profoundly influential in the lives of children, especially when it comes to sexual decision making – it has even been described by one researcher as a “sexual super-peer” – signifying television’s power to amplify, many times over, the peer-pressure teens are already feeling to engage in high-risk sexual behaviors.
When television portrays attractive, popular teenage characters as sexually active, it sends a powerful message to young viewers that they, too, should be sexually active and in fact, there might be something wrong with them if they aren’t. More…
Here’s a thought, and please let me know if I’m speaking in tongues…CHANGE THE F***ING CHANNEL!
Buy your nine-year-old a new BlackBerry, and stop messing it up for the rest of us!