Unintended consequences

Sometimes I am a bit of a curmudgeon.  When people try to get me excited about a new thing I often hold back, vaguely suspicious of overly joyous reviews.  Once I get into a thing I am happy to leap in with reckless abandon but my friends saying "Oooh, you have to see this thing!" just doesn't pack a lot of punch.

On the other hand there are a few groups out there who can get me investigate a thing effortlessly.  All they have to do is start a protest against it and I am all about seeing whatever it is that they hate.  Case in point:  One Million Moms is protesting a show called Lucifer.  One Million Moms is a group that uses "Support One Million Moms Help Fight Indecency" as their tagline so I can't help but assume that anything they are against I am completely for.

Rah rah more indecency!  

In particular a show about the devil, running a nightclub, who is too much of a nice guy for religious nuts to tolerate?  Sign me up!

Not that I will necessarily recommend it of course - it might be complete rubbish.  That said, I definitely have to give it a go and find out for myself because anything that those folks find so abhorrent is probably really fun.

I wonder if these protests actually accomplish their goal at all.  I don't think that the people signing the petition would watch anyway, and they draw the attention of people like me to things I otherwise would never see.  Publicity of any sort is generally good, especially when most people will laugh at the concerns of those trying to act as censors.  I am not alone in my desire to watch whatever it is that has people all in a huff!  The Streisand Effect is a dangerous beast and not to be trifled with.

Picture from http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/thousands-of-right-wing-moms-protest-fantasy-tv-series-on-fox-for-making-satan-too-likeable/