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Designing Women Phone Calls @nocontextfonecalls.bsky.social
Jul 12, 05:10 AM

After Julia knocks down a local newspaper stand displaying a lewd poster, the Sugarbakers debate pornography and censorship. #DesigningWomen #TVSky #ClassicTV

🎤 Whisper Transcript (en) ⏱ 178s

"But Julia, if you knock it down every day, that's gonna come to over $3,000 a week. Now, I don't mean to criticize you, you know, but that is gonna look kind of weird on the quarterly report, you know? $3,000 a week for driving into newsstands. For that kind of money, you could go out and buy yourself a real nice outfit. What would be the point of that? Well, whenever I see something that makes me mad, that's what I do. I find it's just about impossible to be too mad about injustice if I know I look really good. You know what really infuriates me? That man at the newsstand kept talking about how that poster is protected by the First Amendment right of free speech. That is an argument that's wearing a little thin with me. I believe in the First Amendment as much as anybody else, but I also know that when our forefathers were fighting and dying at Valley Forge, they were not really doing it to protect a publication called Hot Tushies. Isn't it amazing how specific these magazines are? I mean, there is something for everybody. There's one out there, you know, all about feet. I mean, can you believe that? I've never seen anything like it in my life. I mean, if a person liked that, they could just get a Kenny's catalog and have a real good time. I mean, it's like, you know, girls who eat chicken. Girls with big ones who think Oswald acted alone. Charlene, what I was trying to say is that every sleazy rag in the country hides behind the First Amendment, and I am sick and tired of it. Maybe I shouldn't have knocked down that sign, but now that new stand owner knows that I mean business, and I doubt he'll put it back up again. It was certainly an expensive proposition for me, but he can't afford to close that stand every day either. So, that's that. Well, I hate to say this, Julie, and you know that I hate that poster just as much as you do, but what you're talking about is censorship. Do you honestly believe that anyone has a constitutional right to show a poster of a woman being degraded, chained up with a dog collar, and whipped? You couldn't show a black man depicted that way because it would be considered incitatory speech. So, why would we demand any less for women? The First Amendment was designed to protect political speech, and everybody knows it. Now, we've already wasted a day on this silliness, and I don't want to discuss it anymore. So, what's been going on while I was gone? Not much, you know, Anthony's been studying for his exams. Well, yeah, well, how is that going, Anthony? Pretty good. Anthony, what's wrong with your eyes? Too much caffeine. He's starting to look like Nancy Reagan. Suzanne!"

💬 Discussion

Designing Women Phone Calls @nocontextfonecalls.bsky.social · Jul 10, 02:44 PM

After Julia knocks down a local newspaper stand displaying a lewd poster, the Sugarbakers debate pornography and censorship. #DesigningWomen #TVSky #ClassicTV

<div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5"> <!-- Avatar --> <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:p7pwaxa7znegltm3yjcnisex/bafkreifjllpfj23dlteytq7ewjo6erfuzhl6zg77kfygeqiezpad2xymce" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" /> <!-- Comment Content --> <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Justin Juerakhan</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@jjuerakhan.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 03:56 PM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Julia has always cared about our country. This is why she is my spirit animal!!!!!</p> </div> </div> <!-- Replies --> </div>