You saw their boobs? Now go fuck yourself.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

132. Here's the thing...

The rape scenes (or any other scene involving female nudity) are gratuitious. Hollywood managed to go for years without showing female nudity and managed to create some damned fine movies. Would Casablanca have been improved by a scene with Rick and Ilsa doing the nasty, featuring multiple full-frontal shots of Ingrid Bergman? How about a shower scene in Citizen Kane? And just for the ladies, how about The Shawshank Redemption not cutting away right at the moment that Andy Dufresne is being raped in prison?

Question: If nudity is SO important in depicting those rape scenes, why didn't we see Tim Robbins' johnson?
Answer: Because our society is sexist, and so we only see women naked (until very recently).

The fact is that Hollywood has been using boobs to drive their box office from the moment the Hays Code was dropped in 1968 (and they skirted the Code as much as possible before that). Did Jane Russell become a Hollywood icon because of her acting skills? Or was it because of her rack and her willingness to wear spray-on sweaters. How about Mamie Van Doren? How about a host of current actresses who couldn't get arrested for their theatrical skills, but can make a living in Hollywood for their clothing-optional approach to their career?

It's stupid and sophomoric.

And what did MacFarlane do at the Oscars? He pointed out the obvious -- in a correspondly stupid and sophomoric manner.

I find it the pinnacle of hyprocrisy (not yours, necessarily) that Hollywood strips these actresses naked to bring in more revenues and then is shocked -- shocked and offended -- when Seth MacFarlane points out the obvious.