It just may be the price that a no-class majority forces all to pay, until some hypothetical time when .. .. .?. .. they develop some class, indicate that they don't Want to hear female dissing as-if it were a joke. After all, Barnum was proven right about such matters.
What I don't want is - John Ashcroft and ilk deciding *either* what is funny or what might 'have class'. I don't actually want a bunch of Corporate ad execs deciding either.. but we have accepted that them as have skimmed the most $$ get to pick the crap they put on "the people's airwaves" .. somehow we Let That Continue to happen, making a gift of that resource. That's US.
I predict it will be a long wait; we're comfy with pure shit as 'advertainment' - and it Sells So Well - and the MBAs Love That. Why.. what else could matter more to a mercantile group, striving for Efficiency in cash/quarter?
(Unless we decided that, say, a la BBC and a Set Tax - we Do Deserve a noncommercial, properly funded alternative to the AM-radio and Howard Sternish folks and their merchandising of genitalia for gigabucks. Referendum time?)
OK maybe in another couple years we can ask again.