it just seems weird
is it because it's "hilariously gay"? so making fun of gay people is more accepted than a full grown woman showing her butt, regardless if it's sexual or not?
few examples: how i met your mother, teen titans go, the amazing world of gumball, friends.
the list goes on, usually the more popular, the more it's skewed in the female genders advantage, and if it's not, it gets cancelled real quick.
animes don't have this problem, they show tits and butts of everyone, likewise european tv and cartoons
example: this is a regular danish kids cartoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LowYG0OArj4&t=8m11s
same goes for live action stuff. nudity and adults references aren't restricted in any way, disclaimer, channel, parental lock. nope, children watch and learn to be more mature that way. and not even adults in america have the joy of mental maturity stimulating tv, hence the amount of fart jokes and people getting hurt humor amount of tv in american media :\
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[–] 5321518? 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
There is something missing from this answer though. It isn't just that we were populated by the more conservative people. It was that we were populated by so many different sects of Christians and they had a tendency to segregate into different areas of the colonies where they could worship as they saw fit. When it came time to write a Constitution to bind all of these areas together, they inserted the Establishment Clause into the Constitution to forbid the Federal government from putting one religion above the others but did not require the states to do the same (many states had official religions well into the 1800's) in order to appease all of these different people. It wasn't until the 14th Amendment came along and a few Supreme Court cases were ruled upon that the states could no longer put one religion above others. At that point it still was not uncommon for the life of a town to revolve around the local church. And the US even to this day is largely rural, where those same churches still dominate the social life of the people.
What does all that have to do with butts? It means that we did not start the process of actually separating the morals of particular religions from the morals of the government until really late compared to other countries. It is happening in the cities more quickly than outside of them, but even there we have a lot of leaders who were raised in the old ways and fight against it. Look at things like the Civil Rights leaders. They are mostly clergy still. Until that changes (and it is starting to) you won't see as much change everywhere.
[–] IggyReilly 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
TIL. This could explain why some of my ancestors were buried without much of a marker - they immigrated here mid-1800s but did not practice the popular religion in the area they settled. I always thought that was kind of weird the township wouldn't respect their passing by allowing them headstones.
[–] 5322109? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
That could definitely explain it. It was not uncommon for only people who were members in good standing of the local church at death to be allowed to be buried in the graveyard with a large marker. It could also be that they were too poor to afford much of one.
You also have stuff like what happened in some places during the Civil War. During occupation, many gravestones were damaged or just plain knocked down during fighting, to make room for artillery to move or set up, reused for building temporary fortifications, or to allow encampments in place. Sometimes they were replaced with just little markers and sometimes not at all.
[–] rulloff_in_a_jar 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Puritans were against putting marks on graves.