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personalapocalypseLink you might be interested in: Why MPAA Age Ratings In Fandom Suck: A Primer. (There are a couple of really interesting links within that post as well, in the first paragraph.)
I had known that MPAA ratings were controversial, and I still remember the outcry when ff.net decided to switch away from them for copyright reasons. But I had never really looked at their requirements or their politics. It's not surprising, but it's saddening all the same.
I had always known that they treated male and female sexuality unequally, and I had definitely noticed that male and female nudity was treated very differently. But I had never realized that a sex scene that shows a woman being coerced into sex, or otherwise giving only dubious consent at best, often finds it easier to get a lower rating than that of a woman actually enjoying herself and whole-heartedly consenting to sex! Is that really a message we should be sending to kids, of either gender? That it's okay as long as you make her do it/someone makes you do it?
Still, it's the system that a lot of people have grown used to, and I can say, it's hard to get used to something else. I like the system thatthene suggests in its place, though the one change I'd make is to separate the SFW tags as well. SFW covers a lot of ground, and it would be good to at least have a way to differentiate between, say, angst and happy fluff. Although a separate "Genre" tag might work better for those purposes.
(On another note, people can still read outside internet stuff at work? I know my workplace has never allowed it. Everything's blocked.)
I had known that MPAA ratings were controversial, and I still remember the outcry when ff.net decided to switch away from them for copyright reasons. But I had never really looked at their requirements or their politics. It's not surprising, but it's saddening all the same.
I had always known that they treated male and female sexuality unequally, and I had definitely noticed that male and female nudity was treated very differently. But I had never realized that a sex scene that shows a woman being coerced into sex, or otherwise giving only dubious consent at best, often finds it easier to get a lower rating than that of a woman actually enjoying herself and whole-heartedly consenting to sex! Is that really a message we should be sending to kids, of either gender? That it's okay as long as you make her do it/someone makes you do it?
Still, it's the system that a lot of people have grown used to, and I can say, it's hard to get used to something else. I like the system that
thene suggests in its place, though the one change I'd make is to separate the SFW tags as well. SFW covers a lot of ground, and it would be good to at least have a way to differentiate between, say, angst and happy fluff. Although a separate "Genre" tag might work better for those purposes. (On another note, people can still read outside internet stuff at work? I know my workplace has never allowed it. Everything's blocked.)
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Date: 2011-12-14 06:54 pm (UTC)I
what
WHAT
...I still think there may be some merit to having one quick-look rating number or letter as opposed to seven or eight "N/SFW because $CONTENT" ones, but. What the fuck, MPAA. I knew the organization sucked, but I didn't know if sucked quite that hard. I'm going to have to re-watch "This film is not yet rated", because clearly it has been too long.