to think the constant showing of womens boobs & bums on the music channels is VERY annoying?

[BarbieGirl]

I have spent my Sunday afternoon doing my ironing (boring I know) and watching the music channels on sky as there is not much on, and nearly every music video shows women or a woman showing her boobs and bum and the camerman zooming right in for a close up.

Am I being a prude about this?. My 5 yo DD keeps asking me why these women are showing their boobs all the time .

interesting point bunnyhunny

OP YANBU! I always worry that these videos and the nasty lyrics of that sort of "music" will influence my dcs. Not sure what to do about it though, as banning it would probably just make them watch/listen to it more...

That's a really interesting point Bunnyhunny. I have wondered before how much the artistes themselves don't take the whole image as seriously as those watching it.

I can only speak from my own 'path of least resistance in the parenting of teenagers' approach, I certainly wouldn't have those channels on for my youngest child (8) to watch. There are better ways to listen to crap music if she really wanted to.

vacua - surely you can discourage your kids in watching / listening to that music by listening to / watching it yourself and RAVING on about it.
Teenagers hate anything their parents like

heh, that would work but they would probably have me sectioned or wonder how I'd been surgically detached from my boring tastes - only my eldest really watches those channels, the middle one doesn't like anything that isn't obscure enough for nobody else to have heard of and the little one, well it's so much easier at her age.

PHEW! Glad you all agree with me - thought I was being a prude.

The sad thing is, some of these girls shaking their ass and tits only look about 12. I wonder how these music producers/cameramen/videomakers etc would feel about their teenage DD shaking her bits for every man and their dog to see?

I got seriously pissed off at and ad on the radio for the Ford Focus.
End of night, bloke has chatted up woman, says "do you wanna come back to mine", she says "Err no thanks" he says "my car's right here" and she suddenly wants to shag him because he has a new Focus??? WTF? What century are we in??? Chances are she a) has her own car and b) it's better than a fahking Focus

OP - YANBU

Bouncingturtleskulls - that is very true but very funny .

Yanbu. It sickens me that my dch are in a culture where this is normal. I even cringe at the brevity of some costumes in 'Strictly Come Dancing' (although non-existent dresses in Latin is nothing new)and was pleased to hear DD (13) say at the telly 'Put some clothes on, love'!

The whole music business seems mainly to be aimed at blokes - women are there to either be sexy or - well, to be sexy.

In this day and age its hard to believe women are just sexual objects in the music industry. It disgusts me.

Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with a woman wearing what SHE wants to wear for HERSELF, but lets face it, most of these women are made to look like slappers because they are told/made to.

Its such a shame.