WARNING: This blog post post may contain some nudity.
Perhaps you thought you’d take a closer look at this blog because of the title. Or perhaps you would’ve looked anyway. Regardless, I am increasingly mystified as to why we are warned that something MAY CONTAIN SOME NUDITY – as if the mere sight of something natural will give us nightmares or make us break into a cold (or hot) sweat … well, I suppose it might, but probably not in a psychologically damaging manner.
And yet I can watch the never-ending, forever-cycling news programs – which are on at all times of the day at night – that never provide similar warnings such as:
- THE FOLLOWING REPORT SHOWS REAL PEOPLE IN REAL DISTRESS
- THE FOLLOWING NEWS ITEM MAY CREATE FEAR OF GOING OUT AT DAY OR NIGHT
- THE FOLLOWING STORY MAY START YOU WORRYING ABOUT THINGS YOU HAD NEVER CONSIDERED WORRYING ABOUT BEFORE
No, it seems that the ongoing barrage of bad and distressful news feeds on television, on radio, over the internet, over social media, etc. is quite acceptable. It apparently does nothing harmful to those who are vulnerable to mental health issues!!!
News (bad news) is seemingly real world stuff that we MUST all be aware of … for our own sake. Without being kept up-to-date with all the bad news stories happening globally (each and every minute of the day) we will somehow become ignorant. We will become ill-informed and STUPID. Oh, how horrendous.
Concerned that our sense of intelligence may suffer – and that without news updates we may have nothing to speak about at work (or with our family and friends) – we continue to tune in. We continue to shake our heads in disbelief each time another sad story hits the airwaves. We continue to hope that nothing that bad will ever happen to us … to make us newsworthy too.
But never a warning, never a caution, never a slight remark that the news (real or fake) might be just bloody upsetting and possibly may be best avoided by those of us who find the images too disturbing.
So for those of you who are not offended by some nudity …
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