Maiya Jordan
04/11/17
Argumentation paper
Brenda is a 23 year old college student attending Georgia State University. Her major is
nursing but she is currently taking a critical thinking class and is assigned to write
argumentative paper with the topic of her choice. Since she has had some free time, Brenda
has been watching more television, and notices that the main trends on television are sex and
violence, which she feels makes TV more exciting. After attending a church service on a Sunday
afternoon, Brenda speaks with her pastor, Eddie Currnie, about the paper that needs to be
completed. Mr.Currnie is her pastor but has known Brenda for over ten years so she considers
him an advisor as well. Brenda feels that it would be a great idea to get an opinion of Pastor
Currnie about sex and violence appearing on television so she can make a great argument for
her paper.
Brenda started off with the question of “should violence and sex be allowed to be
portrayed on prime time television?”. Pastor Currnie says, “Most Americans seem to think so. I
saw a survey online saying seventy-six percent of Americans felt that TV had too much sexually
explicit material and eighty-five percent believed that television contributes to a decline in
values. Television today celebrates premarital sex, adultery, and even homosexuality.
Teenagers watching sex on TV influences them to have sex and more likely to initiate
intercourse as well as other sexual activities.” Brenda says “I do think that the content of
programming on American television has changed significantly since the medium was first
invented more than 50 years ago. I definitely disagree that showing sexuality on TV has a
negative impact, especially homosexuality. Television rarely showed sexual themes, and during
the early decades of television, subjects such as contraception, pregnancy, and other features
of characters’ sexuality were considered to be sensitive to be shown or debated in television
shows. A television show such as Glee, shows teenagers, young adults, and even older adults
that there is nothing wrong with being homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Glee
portrays these relationships and characteristics as normal, accepted, and carrying essentially
the same weight as the heterosexual relationships on the show is a really imperative step in
tolerance as it defines homosexual and heterosexual relationships as equal. This way the
viewers of all ages is shown to care about the LGBT characters in the same way that they would
care about a heterosexual television relationship.” Brenda continues to tell Pastor Currnie
about the positive impact of sexuality being shown on television coming from a heterosexual
