Daily Kos: "Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children?"

Daily Kos: "Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children?":

"The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), in their continuing effort to protect people from reality, has slapped an R-rating on Lee Hirsch’s new documentary 'Bully,' which followed the lives of middle-school & high-school students. The Weinstein Company had planned to offer the film to various school systems in an effort to start a discussion about bullying. However, since the documentary does what documentaries usually do (which is offer an uncensored look at a subject), there are kids swearing with dirty, dirty language that I'm sure no one's virginal ears have ever heard before. So an R-rating puts up considerable barriers to showing the film in schools, since the subjects can't even watch the damn thing in a theater without an adult. And then there's the irony that footage shot in public schools will be deemed inappropriate to be shown in those very same schools."