We cheer at gore and pain
Splattered on our screens
Staring at the chunks of flesh
And corpses full of holes
Our eyes feed upon the action
And accept the violent views
Yet we cringe at human forms
Bare breasts and rears shake
With a hint of frontal show
Causing us to gasp and cry
Disgusted by the lewd display
Many rise to scream their rage
While others shield their eyes
It is a strange world
That we have built for us
Where death is cheered
And the human form is booed
This is an old poem from a few years back. Came back to me when I did a yahoo image search for ‘dark fantasy’ with the Safe Search off. I clicked the Safe Search back on and all of the nudity disappeared, but the violent images remained.
Legends of Windemere 
A very interesting point, creatively expressed.
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I think George Carlin once said he’d rather see his kids watch a couple making love than a murder.
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It is a strange world we live in, death as evidenced by all the crime shows on television are prized, but as you say the human form is booed. Very strange. 🙂
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I know. It’s odd to hear someone going on about nudity or even people in their underwear during a movie. Yet that same movie can have a brutal murder that nobody bats an eye at.
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We certainly are a bizarre people so conditioned to violence that we don’t even give it another thought.
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I enjoyed your poem – eloquently said. It is a strange world, and it’s been so for a long time – a woman showing more skin than is acceptable is a scandal, but brutal public executions were the norm.
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It’s rather disturbing. Not sure how it came about.
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I have ideas that emerging empires + monotheism may have had something to do with it, but I can’t back them up with data.
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War good and population control?
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Sort of. Also Rome; they were pretty moralistic but used death as a main form of entertainment. I think it probably amplified the war-god rituals of the cultures they integrated when they took over Europe. Christianity then spread over that network with their own death-issues and morality.
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I miss the Greeks and their drunken orgies.
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Me too – they were way more fun! 🙂
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It must have been USA style. They have things backwards. Violence….thumbs up…..nudity (FOR SHAME). Of course that’s more the heavy religious tones that come with very influential people. Just a thought.
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Religion is definitely a factor.
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It is a strange world we live in! Great poem. I had to turn on Safe Search after I did a picture search for fairytales and got the shock of my life. Tinkerbell in a very compromising position with Peter Pan…gross
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I’ve seen stuff like that. Creepy.
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I think childhood stories like that should be off limits for stuff like that!! There should be some sort of fairytale code or something 🙂
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Rule of the Internet. There is a porn image of everything out there. Scary.
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That is very true 😦
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That is a serious topic to discuss about. You have well expressed your thoughts.
I don’t know why but we flinch away from discussing our own biology. In particularly under-developed countries, the education regarding the same is many a times ignored. I remember when I was in 8th standard and the teacher had to teach us a lesson on human reproductive system and she just finished the whole damn chapter reading words without a pause, in just a single period.
I know your poem isn’t written in that regard but all such matters are related. Because all of them has made human body a taboo, be it in media or real actual life. And that is one of the reasons behind certain heinous crimes against women.
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It can go to that though. I remember in my health class, they always divided the genders for some classes. I look back and wonder why we weren’t allowed to learn about the other gender. Probably the fear that if you show that to a teen, they’ll run off to have sex. That idea that seeing it makes you do it. Doesn’t seem to be a major concern with violence.
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This is so very true, death is glorified in the movies, the bloodier the better the favorite action being killing and violence…odd when those cheering the movies on are also the voices raised in dissent as violence in our society increases. Very crazy world.
I told my husband the first time I saw “The Hunger Games” movie, that if someone thought they could get away with holding real Hunger Games as i is described in the book…they definitely would and they would make a ton of money as well!
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They pulled it off in ancient Rome with the gladiator fights. The odd thing is that while death is glorified, the act of creating life is feared. Kind of reverse if you think about it.
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Completely reversed! They pulled it off once before….they will again, just give them time to come up with an arena that people will let them get away with!
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Ah…our world of hypocrasy…well done!
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Thanks. 🙂
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