{"id":1161,"date":"2017-01-23T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2017-01-23T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T18:57:49","slug":"prude-or-me-the-chive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Prude, or Me & The Chive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just to be clear, I freely admit I\u2019m a prude. I don\u2019t like watching nudity or sex on TV or in movies. (The first few seasons of Game of Thrones helped desensitize me quite a bit, however.) And, for the record, Rich says that I\u2019m not actually a prude because I don\u2019t care if people do<\/em> things, I just don\u2019t want to watch<\/em>. Fair point, I guess. But I don\u2019t<\/em> like to watch.<\/p>\n

I also fervently believe that young women are much more attractive and sexier if they don\u2019t have their breasts (and asses<\/em>!) hanging out of whatever they\u2019re wearing. (Spare me the side boob, sister. Is there anything<\/em> you feel is better kept private?)<\/p>\n

See? Prude. And I\u2019m okay with it.<\/p>\n

However. There are some days, like today, when it comes crashing to the forefront with a vengeance. Maybe it\u2019s the weather, or the fact that it\u2019s the first Monday of a new administration (that\u2019s not good news in my book). Or maybe it\u2019s because we have a water heater problem & I couldn\u2019t shower last night.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason, I\u2019m really feeling it today. Case in point: it struck me today that as genuinely funny as The Chive is, if I have to scroll past one more pointless photo of a nearly-naked woman to get to the next meme\u2026well, just forget it. I\u2019m done. I mean, it\u2019s obvious that I\u2019m not their target audience. But are they only<\/em> interested in males 12 to\u2026I dunno, how old? 45? 50? 60? At what point do men start thinking, \u201cWye, that nearly-naked girl could be my daughter, and it\u2019s inappropriate for me to think what I\u2019m thinking about her.\u201d Or do they? Ever?<\/p>\n

So, yes, dear The Chive, I imagine it\u2019s a lot more work coming up with funny stuff than finding nearly-naked women willing to pose for pictures. And if a chubby keeps the click count up, so to speak, as effectively as genuinely humorous content, then I suppose it\u2019s more cost-efficient to go that direction. Or maybe The Chive feels<\/em> more acceptable to most men than websitethatisntcompletelyNSFWbutstilltotallywankable.com. Or dot org, whatever. But could you maybe just separate that stuff out for the rest of us? Have a nearly-naked section, interspersed with funny stuff, for the woody crowd. And have a just funnies section for the rest of us.<\/p>\n

Because some of us find our minds automatically imagining those same women try to explain the pictures to their daughter\u2019s boyfriend\u2019s leering adolescent brother, or maybe to their godchildren. And we shudder. #prude<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just to be clear, I freely admit I\u2019m a prude. I don\u2019t like watching nudity or sex on TV or in movies. (The first few seasons of Game of Thrones helped desensitize me quite a bit, however.) And, for the record, Rich says that I\u2019m not actually a prude because I don\u2019t care if people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}