The trouble with Cheerleaders

Well, well, well, it only took six months this time, but someone has flagged (and hence, YouTube has taken down) "Catholic Cheerleaders for Satan REEL 3". Great, now the whole thing won't make sense!

Well, all sarcasm aside, I think it's a little bit fundamentalist that anyone can flag and have a work of fiction taken down. You'd think it was because some poor cheerleader got their vagina ripped out. But no. It was due to "excessive nudity and graphic sex". Huh? There was no nudity. Okay, sure, there was some implied sex in a tent prior to the vagina-ripping, but that's about it... IMPLIED. Perhaps, implied all too well. And if I may reiterate, it was not the vagina ripping that was the problem!

Not to get too paranoid, I have a thought it was because there was oral sex performed on a female. This, for some reason, screams taboo for a lot of people, and it's not just indie stuff, either, it's big-budget Canadian and Hollywood films where the right-wing-ish MPAA do not seem to like to see women pleasured in this manner. I have a feeling if the actors in the cheerleader tent were having good old-fashioned missionary-style one-pump-two kind of sex we'd all be hunky-dory.

As a slightly off-topic rambling case in point, I just watched Frank Henennlotter's "Brain Damage" last night, and as I'd purchaced this one here in the UK I was worried it was the cut version. It wasn't. And really, why should it have been? It was cut by the Americans in the first place. There's a scene where a girl from a nightclub gets the drug-parasite (named Aylmer) thrust in her mouth, and it looks like she's giving a blowjob. It's a joke - a dirty joke, but a joke nonetheless. And that's exactly what someone at the MPAA thought, so he passed the scene and gave Henennlotter's film an "R" rating in America. He was then fired for that decision. Was the actress actually sucking on the actor's wang? No. So what's the problem? If you go to see a movie called Brain Damage that shows, in its promotional material, a graphic picture of someone pulling their own brain out their own ear, really, what kind of film are you expecting?

Likewise, a film titled "Catholic Cheerleaders for Satan". Seriously, if one found this sort of thing offensive (and one would've been on REEL 3 at this point) why was one watching in the first place? And why would one keep watching after the trailer and the first two episodes? It's a comedically blasphemous homage to rebellion cinema. Perhaps after the first couple of episodes some inner embarrassment got the better of them.

Not to mention we'd already censored it ourselves before posting that reel! Well, it's okay, we'll make sure the people who want to see it can see it one way or another, but really, with all this shit going on in the world, I can't wrap my head around those that need to spend their time trying to rid the YouTube channel of dumb-ass stuff like this.

Well, at least people are watching the shows. That's far better than complete indifference.

-V.