[quote name='dtcarson']"Complaining" about a show is NOT "communistic", now you're just tossing in buzzwords. DENYING someone, a private party, the right to complain to another private party, simply because you don't agree with it, is "communistic" in the Stalinist, you-say-what-we-tell-you-to vein.
Have any of you people who are threatening to smack her, or stab her in the womb, or kill her [such tolerant and open people you are!] *ever* complained to Best Buy for not pricematching, or CC for not giving you a sale, or any other company for anything service related? Not things like price tag says 4, got charged 5, but other things? If so, then, well, you should just shut up, get smacked, and quit shopping there, since if this lady has no right to inform FOx of her opinion, neither do you.
I appreciate CAG for the deals, but honestly, 99% of the members here are spoiled, violent, intolerant hypocrites who feel they're entitled to everything, their opinions are the only ones that count, and have no morals or ethics if not having them means saving another 50 cents on a game or shipping a game. It's really sad.
Don't worry, my opinion differs from yours [i actually support individual rights and opinions, rather than conforming to the 'tolerant' and politically correct anything-goes sheep mentality], and I know that's not allowed, so I'll leave this thread alone now. My piece has been said, I'll reiterate briefly for any actually interested in facts or logic instead of violent threats and sheeplike groupthink mentality.
* The OP's friend has every right, as a CONSUMER, to inform a COMPANY of her OPINION on a PRODUCT. In this case, AFAIK, she is *not* asking the government, so First Amendment and "censorship" is not an issue, and to most sane people [ie, non-CAGs], the random vitriol and hatefilled rants about someone you don't even know, expressing her opinion, would be more frightening and scary than a consumer recognizing her power as part of the voice of the marketplace.
Carry on with name calling and threats and random pseudopolitical buzzwords.[/QUOTE]
First of all, she would hardly qualify as a consumer. The product in question isn't a product. A product is something that is paid for. You pay for the tv set. You pay for cable tv. Fox is a general network that isn't directly paid for - in the same way that CBS, NBC, and ABC are. That's what the advertisers are for. Advertisers are the money resource that fuel the networks via commercials and product placement in shows. As a result, the shows themselves are not subject to direct input from people who would otherwise be called 'consumers'. These people don't become consumers until they purchase an actual 'product' that is related to the topic in question - in this case, Family Guy. Seeing as this was a new episode, a DVD wouldn't exist yet so hencefore, it's not a product (yet).
Secondly, why do you feel the need to defend this woman? You seem to only notice the posts that are talking about 'stabbing her in the uterus' and other such things and ignoring those posts who made a worthwhile suggestion such as 'turn the channel'. If you look at a lot of the posts, most of them are not concerned about whether or not she should express her opinion. Some of them outright say so. Rather, the majority is more concerned with that notion that her opinion is invalid (and I believe rightly so).
Thirdly, off color remarks made in jest on an anonymous board on the internet is hardly grounds for the level of anger you seem to display. Taking a joke about stabbing someone in the ovaries seriously is about as stupid as someone complaining about a cartoon tv show where one of the characters has sex with a main character who happens to be underage while ignoring the more obvious heinous jokes of racism (Brian barking at the black producer) or using a handicapped person as a bludgeon (Peter using Joe to break the music instruments) or anything else that NORMALLY happens on this type of show. At any rate, it makes no sense that this woman would watch Family Guy in the first place and be appalled for one thing considering there's about a billion other things more worthwhile to be pissed off about - both on the show and in real life. Me doth thinks she protests too much.
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ING humor, if you didn't find it funny that sucks for you other wise please promptly change the channel and shut the hell up, what about when brain barked at the black guy is that supposed to make blacks and minorities un-happy, did he laugh at that part if he did he must be a racist? Who in there right mind with two brain cells, would say hey, that fictional 2d cartoon on TV made it so that having sex with an under aged girl is cool so I'm going to do it! 
