One would think that me having a blog would've been something that should've happened a LONG time ago, being that I pretend to know a lot about computers and like to spout out meaningless comments on anything and everything going on in life. But, nonetheless, I never had one until my partner-in-archaeological crime, Bari the Wise Law Student of Fordham University and Co-Queen of Sarcasm (I feel a "Princess Diaries" spoof coming on....), urged me to start one. I mean, I post stuff on MySpace every so often...but that stuff is mostly about important topics, like politics and such. What I need is a place to spill out the random such and such comments that pop into my head and need to be shared (for example, I hate how Ashlee Simpson wears a tee-shirt that says "Punk" on it...you are not a friggin' punk!) Many times I'm all excited to share them with someone, but if no one is online to receive them, they eventually disappear, never to see the light of day.
So, here it is...finally. Hopefully you will all enjoy my random "musings" (I put that in quotes because I never use that word...it's so pretentious. Oy, so is the word "pretentious"...anyway).
Now, what was the topic we were speaking of that sparked all this blogging madness?
My current employment situation has me sitting in front of 2 monitors at the MGM Home Entertainment offices copy and pasting movie information from a Word document into an online database. I get very ADD with it, so being AIM all day long keeps me sane.
I think that it's pretty funny that "sensuality" is a rating reason for movies. Like, "this movie is rated R because it contains Violence, Language and Sensuality." What the hell does that mean?
Well, according to Dictionary.com, the noun sensuality means: "The quality or state of being sensual or lascivious." And since using the root word and an even more ambiguous word in the definition tells us nothing, we'll have to go a step further define those also.
sensual adj - (1) Relating to or affecting any of the senses or a sense organ; sensory.
or the definition probably used by the ratings people:
sensual adj - (2a) Of, relating to, given to, or providing gratification of the physical and especially the sexual appetites.
lascivious adj - Given to or expressing lust; lecherous
Ok, so Sensuality seems to mean a Sexual Situation with feelings, desire and a positive outcome that feels good; Sensuality is a Sexual Situation in which the people involved actually like each other.
Dear Ratings Reasons People:
Enough with the complications! In the end, Sensuality is just another, more loving name for a Sexual Situation. What happend to the old days when ratings reasons were simple, and all we needed to know was that there's sex, violence and cursing? What's next...are you going to break down the sexual situations like you've done with the "violence" category ("Showgirls" is rated NC-17 as it contains an erotic scene of Elizabeth Berkeley and Kyle McLachlan having raucous sex in a pool, various breast-exposing situations, nude women pushing each other down flights of stairs...etc. etc.)?
Sincerely,
Jessica
Ok, back to work. (Rated PG-13: Contains violent data entry situations, thoughts of swear words and sexual situations)
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