Comments on: Shadow Puppetry with Prince

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:47:21 +0000

This is left over from last week, re the post on Ann Coulter. I was STUNNED by reader reactions. I had thought that Mental_Floss readers were intelligent, thinking people. Some of those comments made me despair.

Please excuse my tardiness, but it has been bothering me all week.

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:44:03 +0000

I really hope that last comment was a joke or something, there can’t REALLY be people who honestly think that watching a few seconds of mildly suggestive content would actually turn people into homosexuals(not that there’s anything wrong with that anyways)!

Personally, I was reminded of a similar scene in “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” where Robin is singing to Maid Marion behind a hanging curtain. Made me giggle a little :).

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:42:30 +0000

Seems like the last guy was pretty worked up. Seems like I read about a homophobia study at UGA: men of varying sexualities were asked to rate their own homophobia, then had a sensor wrapped around their “guitars” (trying to keep this clean), and then watched 20 mins. of gay porn (no delicate way to put that). At any rate, gay men responded to the porn (I’m sure I don’t need to spell that out), but interestingly enough, men who had rated themselves as “very/extremely homophobic” also responded. We really do hate that most in others which we see in ourselves…

By: Pointy-Hatted Geek

Pointy-Hatted Geek — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:39:41 +0000

I agree with Sheldon. It seems to me that watchng people tackling each other is going to affect a kid’s behavior more than watching Prince’s show is.

And as for that last complaint, I’m fairly certain that HIV isn’t just a gay disease anymore. Unless that person was wanting her child to become a monk, I think that if he has HIV, it’s a problem either way.

By: bayliss

bayliss — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:13:06 +0000

why is everyone so offended by Prince’s little Guitar fun. It’s not like it was really his penis flapping in the wind. I was more offended by the dancing girls being paraded around with him. they could have used a bit more clothes. I’m sink of the “make the government gaurd the Air Waves and keep my kids safe” feelings of parents these days. What happend to “watch your own kids.” Parents these days need to take the full responceblity for their childern and stop expecting the Governmet to do it for them.

By: Sheldon Siegel

Sheldon Siegel — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:30:49 +0000

What gets me is these idiots have no problem letting their kids watch a bunch of guys attack eachother and then pat eachothers butts.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:42:26 +0000

I always get a kick outta reading ignorant rants with tons of spelling errors and obtuse CAPS to emphasize their shrewd observations.

By: Phillip E. Banks

Phillip E. Banks — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:41:58 +0000

Anyone watching televised football & has a problem with Prince’s silhouette has a severe denial problem: almost all of the liquor ads are soft porn! Everything long & cylindrical is not a phallus…unless you think it is…because you have a Dirty Mind (A Prince album)Get your heads out of the gutter

By: Mangesh

Mangesh — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:32:45 +0000

just to let everyone know, I edited the last comment on this page from “b.” we rarely edit responses (in this case, I left the first sentence and lopped off the remaining). I just wanted to let the readers know that although we agree with the sentiment, we couldn’t post the rest of the blurb due to some of the language.

By: b

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:56:07 +0000

Whoever wrote that last comment about his son now being gay b/c he saw that should be ashamed of themself…