"Offensive" Jockey Billboard

[ncr]

From the 2Bangkok mainpage.......

Also: VENUS'S VISION: Keep your hands off of my morals! - The Nation, February 12, 2005
...The Consumer Protection Board was indeed able to find a law that plainly states: “Advertising must not promote illegal or immoral behaviour or cause cultural damage.” But who is qualified to determine right and wrong for a society and culture? Which is worse: a man lounging around with his girlfriend in their underwear or a prime-time soap opera featuring a hero who rapes the heroine?...
http://nationmultimedia.com/2005/02/12/opinion/index.php?news=opinion_16402902.html

Couldn't agree more with the Nation article.......

A short summary of the current state of Thai morals -

Not allowed because against Thai culture and posing a grave threat to the mental well-being of Thai youths: :eek:

- ads showing a man and a woman lying on a bed in underwear (without touching each other)
- university students wearing tight blouses and/or short skirts
- a TV program involving a young man dating 3 girls and occasionally touching and hugging them

Not allowed for other reasons:

- displaying alcoholic drinks and cigarettes on TV

WHEREAS:

Allowed on newspaper frontpages:

- mangled bodies of accident or crime victims

Allowed in prime time TV soap operas:

- men beating women
- men raping women
- women being abducted, tied up and hold captive
- people attacking each other with knives
- bloody and bruised faces
- people being coldheartedly shot in the limbs and chest from a close distance, with visible gunshot wounds and blood oozing out

Seems the latter examples are more in line with traditional cultural values?

Don't know what you call that, but I call it a blatant case of hypocrisy.

Anyway, mai pen rai.......

[Yappofloyd]

Khun ncr,

You are totally on the money!

I regularly find it incredulous that puffing cigarettes on TV shows is censored yet the daily TV fare of gruesome shots of dead bodies or unhindered/insensitive access victims in hospitals & morgues is not! (Of course you mention the papers which take graphic news to another level). And the constant depiction of abuse of women in the TV soaps is really over the top, (but of course DV is not a problem in Thailand!).

Throw in no movie ratings so that 5 and 10 yr olds can see a graphic horror movie like 'Saw', an appalling cavalier attitude to road accidents and safety, and appalling work place safety and standards, then it seems there are more pressing issues to be focused on.

I, like you, thought that The Nation writer Khun Veena summed it up perfectly.

[Nekochan]

It seems to me that moral standard is no diffence in the US. You may remember Janet Jackson's overexposure (is this correct English?) in last Superbowl concert.

Americans went outrageous. CBS was heavily fined. The network was warned there would no such thing, again. Some said if you apply the rule "three strikes and you are out", we will see more from Latoya and Jacko himself! (1 down and 2 to go ..... or 2 already down?)

Europeans just laughed what the FUSS is all about!

But US media may not disturb about how many Iraqis died since the occupation last year. You are wondering....

That's the same thing here considering 2,500 deaths related to anti-drug policy by Taksin's adminstation. And more than 150 deaths of Thai Muslim at Krue Sae and Tak Bai.

Thai media put too much attention to Nong Nut, Tata, and what they consider "indecent" by Thai standard. I think it is just "obsession" of what Thai society considers a taboo. (I didn't say obsession or addiction to sex, right?)

Oh well!, that includes live demonstration of breast cream, too. No mannequin, just real woman! And we just treated them like criminals.

Hypocrisy rules, this is Thailand (TIT).

[ncr]

Khun Nekochan,

very cool comments from a Thai person........ :)

(Gives me hope.)