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> People thought the Simpsons was vulgar, they thought Elvis dancing was vulgar, they thought girls dancing to jazz in the flapper era was vulgar, thought that

> People thought the Simpsons was vulgar, they thought Elvis dancing was vulgar, they thought girls dancing to jazz in the flapper era was vulgar, thought that women exposing any skin beyond their hands and face was vulgar I think the difference here is that it's easy to imagine what is more vulgar than The Simpsons, or more vulgar than Elvis dancing. I'm struggling to come up with what is more vulgar than some of the stuff that is produced for the mainstream today, without being just pornography.

colechristensen 5y ago
Eh, if you were a pepper pot circa 1992, you very well might not be able to imagine anything worse than the Simpsons. And the Simpsons stopped getting heat once Bevis and Butthead went on the air and became the new target. I refer you to Jimmy Swaggart in 1986 >he views rock as “pornography and degenerative filth which denigrates all the values we hold sacred and is destructive to youth.” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-08-03-ca-1235-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-08-03-ca-1235-s... This is where The New Pornographers got their name