Oklahoma's "tv Nudes" Scandal Was Jackie Chan Movie on Samsung Streaming Service

It's insane. Violence hurts and kills people. Nudity... is people without clothes.

It never hurts to remember that many of the original European settlers to what is now the US were religious radicals who were forced out of Europe because of their religious beliefs. Their influence lives on to this day

I believe (without a whole lot of support) that Europeans mostly got over the fetishization of violence during the interminable wars up through the 19th century. They had one last massive burst in the first half of the 20th, but it was already clear that the new order was about trade rather than conquest.

America was largely isolated from that. We had plenty of wars but the biggest was just against ourselves, and we turned it into a story of great heroism (rather than admit that the losers fought a bad war for bad reasons). We came to be proud of our violent adventures as we colonized westward.

If this (absurd) chain of reasoning holds, we still love the excitement of violence while Europeans are largely over it.

And this (dubious) theory also explains the fear of nudity. European wars were often nominally religious. (In fact religion was mostly just an excuse for the same old wars of greed, but it makes a better cover story.) Being proudly religious is kind of embarrassing now.

Americans didn't keep killing each other over minor doctrinal differences, at least not on a mass scale. Instead we showed off just how devoted we were, topping each other to be more and more against what everyone else was against. Literally, holier than thou.

Not everyone is into that, but for a variety of history reasons the ones who are have outsized power, and they hammer anyone who crosses them. Most people wouldn't care, but the ones who care, care a lot.

This is, as I've made clear, just a barely-informed guess. But I do think it has some elements of truth to it.

Fairly silly conversation. The nudity was only in the American version of the movie; in the Hong Kong version, the women were fully dressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protector_(1985_film)#Hong...

Also, I'm pretty sure that Europeans would be upset if there were a bunch of naked women sitting at a table packaging enormous amounts of cocaine at a school board meeting, especially if the tv decided to show this by itself.

Although I might be wrong, seeing as Denmark had legal distribution of child pornography for a decade, with people arguing in Parliament that the sacrifice of those few children possibly saved many others from being molested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Climax_Corporation#Child...

A good* documentary on that is "Candy Film - Da børneporno var lovlig" (2016)

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[*] for certain values of good that include tears and nausea.

I think it’s even more interesting the random ways that streaming services decide to pull episodes of TV shows that aren’t particularly moral like the Simpson or South Park. The Simpson episode where Michael Jackson sings a song uncredited is unavailable. You can murder someone’s parent and eat them on South Park but making fun of Charlie Kirk before he died was pulled. I don’t quite understand it.

At least I can appreciate Chuck Norris vs Bruce Lee vs a Kitten.

https://youtu.be/kmgcqOM9rG0

But yes, best Chan is Drunken Master Chan.

"accidental"? That was a choreographed stunt.

I have it on good authority that quite a few people are nude under their clothes. Disgusting.