14 Jul

Posted at 09:58h in Media, sex, Society, Uncategorized by

So, it’s been a few weeks, and I hope you did your homework that I provided in my last post. I, too, have continued to pay attention to what I have seen and the sexual innuendo on various media sites goes from the very subtle to the obvious. The question I have is, “How many of us actively look at this and discriminate the content we are viewing and how that content affects our attitudes, emotions and beliefs?” Even more, how does that content affect our kids? Get Slinky I would like to provide you with a few examples that I have...

01 Jul

Posted at 17:40h in Media, Society by

Sorry for the divergence from "Your Body Is Not A Disneyland". We will return to that in my next post. Stay tuned. I just finished the open audition for Your OWN Show and found it to be a very interesting experience. Mark Burnett (reality show guru) and Oprah Winfrey developed a reality show to have a competition for a talk show that a “Winner” of the competition would host on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). I am not much of a purveyor of many reality shows (I do like my American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance), and never saw...

17 Jun

Posted at 07:48h in Media, sex, Society by

I am going to take a side step before we continue on with the Media Machine. I would like to give you an assignment. Did you ever take a moment to think about how you learned to speak a language? Did you just wake up one day and start talking? No. Over time you were exposed to the language. You initially had no idea what people were saying, but as you grew older, you understood more and more and tried to speak. Your brain continued to develop and you understood more and more and learned to speak better and better. The next...

09 Mar

Posted at 20:36h in Love, Media, Uncategorized by

Welcome back. In my first installment, I discussed the nature of our relaxed attitudes toward sex. I feel that we are in a precarious position, and our children are in danger of suffering from our lack of self-respect. So let’s pick it up from here. What I always tell people is that even though we may have roots that connect us to the animal world, we also have a brain that functions at a higher level. The gift of our frontal lobe is that we can use our ability to reason to help manage our unavoidable more primal and animalistic...

26 Feb

Posted at 13:57h in Integrity, relationships by

You don’t have to look too far today in our society to see that sex has overtaken many aspects of our culture. It is on the television, on the covers of many magazines, in almost every corner of the internet, and our children seem to be immersed in innuendo and direct sexual content. I would not call myself old-fashioned, nor would those who know me, but I feel that our culture’s attitudes and behaviors about sex are out of control, and we seem to be more and more desensitized the more we are exposed to this. I will say that I...

20 Jan

Posted at 19:45h in Imposter Syndrome, Society, Uncategorized, Victims by

Some of you may be thinking, “Dr. E…, you’ve got that all wrong. It’s supposed to be 'If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it'.” Well let me tell you all, we’ve got trouble… right here in River City…with a capital T that rhymes with P… (sorry, I digress). But seriously, we do have problems that we need to face in our culture, and consistently we don’t face them. We close our eyes, turn our deaf ear, blame others, play the victim and look to be rescued, and often pick sides on issues that directly affect us all that does nothing...

12 Dec

Posted at 07:39h in Idols, Imposter Syndrome, Integrity, Media, Society, Uncategorized by

…And another one bites the dust. In the past few weeks another idol fell from Grace, and their humanness was exposed. Tiger Woods fell from the ranks of the untouchable. Please understand, I don’t say this in any sarcasm or disrespect to Tiger, I say it as an observation on a culture that creates idols out of humans that can only fall from grace. Whether or not it is the media, our desire for fame and sensationalism, or our tendency to hold people we admire up to unrealistic standards, I see the issues of our fallen idols as much of an...

12 Nov

Posted at 08:41h in Bullies, Uncategorized, Victims by

I continually look at society to see where and how we need to change to make this a better place. Just as often I look at myself. This past weekend, I witnessed a very disturbing event that some of you may question why it bothered me so much??? Well, it goes like this. My wife and I are part of a condominium association, and we traveled to where our condo is for the annual meeting. This year the meeting was well attended, more so than in previous years, because of the activity that had occurred throughout the year on the...