[Trixie]

Speaking of all the tv stuff that everyone gets away with, just the other day at lunchtime we saw a chick in her car sipping on a glass of wine behind the wheel driving (Real Housewives of Atlanta). There was no commentary about it, no "look how bad it is!", no warning --- nothing. In fact, I wouldn't even have noticed it if Delia hadn't pointed it out. Drinking and driving actually KILLS people, but you see that shit on television all the time.

On the same program the chick's kids tell their mom that second-hand smoke kills (as she's smoking in the same room with them). She gets into her daughter's face and BLOWS THE SMOKE INTO HER FACE. Her kid's, like, ten or something. I'm not suggesting it should be illegal to show those things on tv, but it does seem clearly WORSE than someone describing or illustrating doing fictional harm to people.

The double standards are grossly irrational and don't help protect anybody.