Thursday, 6 April 2006

In which we show restraint on the post tit le.

BoingBoing prints this letter from Bennett Haselton, founder of Peacefire, about the FCC's ludicrous decision to issue a fine for the incident that gave us the term "wardrobe malfunction" two years ago:
I usually don't send out pure opinion pieces, but let it be said: There is not one person anywhere who can give you a good reason why it's OK to show a man's chest on TV, but not a woman's chest. You can ask over 100 people why -- trust me, I have -- and not get a real answer. It's just a silly superstition that some people came up with, a bunch of others went along with it, and now we're stuck with it. Have you ever heard a real reason?
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