"Scandal isn't what it used to be"

While reading The Week, I came across an article that I found particularly interesting. It was about how people who commit major scandals aren’t disappearing under rocks or crawling into like they used to.

The author of this article, Laura Kipnis wrote, “A community ratifies its moral standards by publicly humiliating and shunning social transgressors.” But how can we shun them when they won’t go away? Kipnis later wrote about the New York governor who was the center of a prostitution scandal a few years ago is now a talk-show host on CNN. “With no universal standard of immorality, we no longer put sinners in the stocks.”

This article speaks to just about every single big named company. It’s as if society accepts the social and moral wrong-doings. For example, take Calvin Klein, most known for its questionable ads that feature grossly thin teenagers and advocate sexual promiscuity. Regardless of the product or the brand name, today’s American culture has an unnatural tolerance for tasteless advertisements.